In 2024, Louisiana passed the Community Air Monitoring Reliability Act, a law that critics say effectively bars local groups ...

Scientists have discovered a groundbreaking new way to give old plastic bottles a second life — one that could help clean the air, tackle plastic pollution, and lower industrial costs. A research team ...

Heat and air pollution affect millions in cities. Manchester researchers use AI and open data to build tools helping cities track risks and respond more effectively to climate and environmental ...

One September morning Jim Fulton was pumping fuel into a combine harvester and watching the sky for rain. Fulton’s family has been farming in Illinois since the 1890s. Fulton, who now grows mostly ...

The University of Texas at Arlington-based Texas Manufacturing Assistance Center, known as TMAC, is helping the state's manufacturers reduce pollution with real-time sensors that track their ...

Black mambas have always been stuck with a notorious reputation in Africa, but they can lend a hand (or rather, a scale) to help track pollution. That's because these snakes accumulate heavy metals in ...

House sparrows are frequently found living near humans—and exposed to many of the same toxic materials in the environment that we are. Credit: Silas Stein/picture alliance via Getty Images A Small Oil ...

Air in the U.S. has gotten cleaner for decades, adding years to people's lives and preventing millions of asthma attacks, but nearly half of Americans still live with unhealthy air pollution, a new ...

A new report from the Pew Charitable Trusts and its partners predicts that plastic pollution will more than double over the next 15 years — the equivalent of dumping nearly a garbage truck full of ...