AI is helping scientists detect pollution earlier by combining data from water, air, and soil to spot environmental damage before it spreads.

China is cleaning up its sulfur pollution, but the drop in airborne particles is revealing additional warming that concerns scientists.

Air pollution has a "dramatic" impact on the amount of sunlight reaching Earth’s surface, reveals new research. Solar radiative energy declined in large parts of the world from the 1950s to the 1980s ...

While visions of improved recreational options for the Blue Earth River may be a silver lining to the Rapidan Dam failure, the significant increase in pollution downstream is troubling at best and ...

As final negotiations for an international plastics treaty get underway this week in Busan, South Korea, scientists warn that the global plastics crisis is far more dangerous than previously thought.

Ten years ago, there were about 1,200 satellites in orbit around the earth. Now there are about 12,000 and the numbers are growing rapidly. Starlink alone has 9,000 satellites in its communications ...

What long-term threats does plastic pollution have on the Earth, and specifically marine life? This is what a recent study published in Nature Sustainability hopes to address as a team of scientists ...

Dear EarthTalk: Can you discuss pollutants in car interior materials, and also pollution inside cars originating from gasoline and diesel exhausts outside the car? — Mervyn Kline, Philadelphia, Pa.

Across the globe, thousands of species face the threat of extinction due to habitat loss, poaching, pollution, and climate ...

RAPIDAN, Minn. — The water quality in the Blue Earth River has deteriorated significantly since the Rapidan Dam suffered a partial failure and sent nearly 12 million cubic yards of sediment behind the ...

There are better ways to celebrate Earth Day than sitting at your computer. But if you can’t make it out to, say, the Twin Islands Loop near Orchard Beach, you can at least learn more about how what ...