With tailored, evidence-based policies, the U.S. can relieve the burden on local and municipal governments, communities, and ...

During the darkest weeks of the year, most of us welcome well-lit streets and sidewalks. But too much artificial light, where ...

Pollution entering the ocean from the Tijuana River has been a problem for decades, but beach closures have increased in recent years Environmental educators say the closures are hurting kids and ...

Filter-feeding mollusks respond to water pollution in a very detectable and measurable manner. With that fact in mind, scientists have created a commercial water-quality-monitoring system that uses ...

Bart Doudna of Cedar Rapids holds up his sons Cameron Doudna, 5, and Quinn Doudna, 2, while posing for a portrait with a large lighted diamond ring during the Five Seasons Lights at McGrath ...

Air pollution modelling and control represent critical intersections between environmental science, engineering and public policy. Modelling techniques—ranging from deterministic dispersion models and ...

On the barren coast of Akhfenir, Morocco, a nature-based solution to the climate crisis is taking shape. Raffael Jovine is building an oblong, mechanically stirred pool full of pea-green water. He ...

The planet existed in darkness, illuminated only by the sun, stars and moon in an ancient cycle. Until 200 years ago, when a human turned on a light. Since the invention of artificial light, the world ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has put more than 160 workers who tackle pollution in overburdened communities on leave. The employees were part of the agency’s Office of Environmental ...

For more than 30 years, my work has taken me into mines, labs and other places where technology meets nature. I’ve seen how the Earth builds its materials with remarkable precision, and how those same ...

Today, the Council adopted its position ('general approach') on a regulation on preventing the loss of plastic pellets – the industrial raw materials used to make plastic products – to the environment ...