"In 2024, we saw a 17% year-over-year spike in the average number of close approaches in low Earth orbit per satellite." ...

New report by Boston College researchers and colleagues from The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health follows up on landmark 2018 study Pollution continues to kill approximately 9 million people ...

Astronomers are sounding alarm bells as the world's most precious sky-observing location faces a risk of being blinded by ...

Nine million people have been left choking on toxic, putrid air in the most polluted city on Earth. Vietnam’s capital Hanoi topped the list of the most polluted major cities for the first time in ...

Yet pollution wasn’t invented in the 18th century. Humans have been mucking up Earth for far longer, to our own detriment, as exemplified by new research linking lead air pollution to cognitive ...

Jan. 16, 2025 — DDT soil pollution is still a major problem in many parts of the world. Researchers have developed a new method to manage ecological risks from the toxin by binding it with biochar.

Not one square mile of surface ocean anywhere on earth is free of plastic pollution. The problem is growing into a crisis. The fossil fuel industry plans to increase plastic production by 40 percent ...

Nearly a quarter of freshwater species face extinction due to habitat destruction, pollution, and water overuse.

But his calculations suggest that, to explain the 2023 temperature spike, all forms of air pollution on Earth, rather than just shipping pollution, would need to be almost completely eliminated.

Learn about the impact of plastic pollution on climate change and environmental degradation during the Society of the Four Arts showing of “Plastic Earth.” Scheduled for 4:30 p.m. Friday ...