pollution
"This study is the first picture of the true scale of plastic pollution in the Great Lakes."
The cause of a mystery fog that covered London for five days, causing breathing problems and killing thousands of residents, may have finally been figured out by scientists.
Using a computer model of 10,000 people, researchers calculated the ideal travel speeds for the lowest inhaled pollution risk.
A new WHO air quality model confirms that 92% of the world's population lives in places where air quality levels exceed WHO limits.
Locals point to discharge from a nearby nickel processing plant.
A team involving Oxford University scientists has, for the first time, discovered tiny magnetic particles from air pollution lodged in human brains – and researchers think they could be a possible cause of Alzheimer's disease.
People “have certainly not become less greedy or less stupid.”
This red-eared slider turtle known as Peanut was found in 1993, and is just one of many examples of the damage that plastic, and plastic beverage rings in particular, can do to animals.