We’re dying from inhaling the industries’ pollution. I feel like it’s a death sentence. Like we are getting cremated, but not getting burnt. —Sharon Lavigne, 71, Saint James Parish, January 2023 ...

Plastics don’t just pose a threat to the marine environment and people’s health; they jeopardize basic human rights. This is the framing that a growing number of legal experts, policymakers, and ...

As final global plastics treaty negotiations take place in Geneva, The Lancet elevates plastic pollution as a grave, global threat to human health. “To those meeting in Geneva: Please take up the ...

Acid rain is a very broad term. It encompasses not only rain but also other forms of precipitation including fog, hail, sleet, snow, dust, and gas. It can even cause haze or smog, contributing to the ...

Researchers and student volunteers pick up what seabirds throw up, then examine it for clues about our impact on the environment Jessica Leigh Hester Scientists scavenge the docks of Manhattan’s ...

Government officials, local authorities, health professionals, and civil society are gathering today at the second global conference on air pollution and health in Cartagena, Colombia. As ...

Sharks in the Bahamas have tested positive for cocaine, caffeine, and other substances, new research shows. A study published in Environmental Pollution tested five species of sharks in the Bahamas ...

Calderón-Garcidueñas, today head of the Environmental Neuroprevention Laboratory at the University of Montana, points out that the damaged brains she documented through neuroimaging in young dogs and ...

One day in January, foamy waves jostled the edge of a floating dock in New York City’s Hudson River Park. The structure, assembled from interlocking rectangles, looked bucking, alive, insistent on ...