Environmental Hazards

New data released Monday showed atmospheric carbon dioxide reached a monthly average level of 419 parts per million in May,...

Thousands of people from across the nation are traveling to northern Minnesota this weekend to join Indigenous leaders in what...

Conservation advocates in Florida are warning that 1,000 manatees in the state's water could die this year—hundreds more than in...

Plastic can be recycled one to 10 times, depending on the type, although most can be recycled only once. The...

Bayer said Thursday it will remain in the residential lawn and garden market, but is “discussing the future” of glyphosate,...

We have built up civilization to a scale that can temporarily be supported by finite and polluting energy sources, and...

A new study of airborne plastic particles finds that microplastic pollution is escalating around the world. Tiny remains of plastic...

A study published May 4 by the academic journal Frontiers in Environmental Science finds pesticides widely used in American agriculture...

The United States Court Of Appeals ordered the EPA to remove the dangerous pesticide and neurotoxin Chlorpyrifos from all food-related...

Over 27,000 barrels of the toxic insecticide DDT have been found so far on the seafloor about 12 miles off...

The release of genetically engineered mosquitoes puts Floridians, the environment, and endangered species at risk in the midst of a...

A new video by the Story of Stuff Project sheds light on the misconceptions around plastics, pollution, and recycling. #stopusingpalstic

Japan announced Tuesday a plan to dump over 1.2 million tons of stored contaminated wastewater from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear...

About one-third of the world's agricultural land is at high risk from pesticide pollution, a new study has found. #pesticidepollution

While recent research has raised the alarm that tropical forests including the Amazon could soon stop serving as carbon sinks,...