A research team, led by Professor Sung-Deuk Choi from the Department of Civil, Urban, Earth, and Environmental Engineering at ...

Fires and smoke foul the air. Toxins seep into the earth and water. Habitats for wildlife disappear. Experts call it ecocide.

Many native plants are missing from habitats where they should thrive – even in wilder areas. Why? Human actions such as ...

Kilometers above the Earth’s surface, the ozone layer protects humanity and all life from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays.

The world's amphibians are in trouble. Because of their sensitivity to climate change, habitat loss, and pollution, they may be the canary in the ...

Researchers previously assumed that organic aerosols form through a single oxidation step. Natural precursor gases such as terpenes and isoprene – hydrocarbons emitted by plants – quickly add oxygen ...

Anthropogenic ... for example, through particle filters, but also the emission of precursor gases that later form solid particles. This could help to combat air pollution more effectively and ...

A 2022 study by the University of Nottingham lists pollution - from oil production and other industrial and domestic sources - as one factor among several, including climate change, that are ...

Emerging factors, such as societal and anthropogenic characteristics like inequality and pollution, are gaining recognition as ... point out that significant questions remain unanswered. For example, ...

The study reveals how, for example, nature's own archives - like tree rings - combined with forgotten historical documents can unlock centuries of climate data that modern instruments have missed.

He warned that allowing more power plant pollution to enter waterways would ... because environmental contamination is the main source of the neurotoxin. Though HHS offers advice to consumers ...