Study Reports Air Pollution Causes Thousands of Premature Deaths Each Year
Anyone that has every taken a bike ride, jogged or walked along a busy street knows how bad the air feels and smells and has…
Anyone that has every taken a bike ride, jogged or walked along a busy street knows how bad the air feels and smells and has…
A new study warns that climate change resulting from human pressures could result in the near total loss of some of the world’s most delicate…
Newly discovered nanotubes may have a big impact on environmental cleanup. By adding boron to carbon during the nanotube-creating process, researchers found that the resulting…
It has long been known that noise affects animal behavior, just look at our personal reactions and behaviors when stuck in a noisy city. But…
New research has demonstrated that zooplankton in the Northern Gulf of Mexico accumulated toxic compounds derived from crude oil that rushed from the Macondo well…
According to the first-ever continent-wide risk assessment, climate change and the increasing number of visitors are putting the Antarctic ecosystems at risk. The research team…
Researchers have discovered a veritable microbial oasis, under the Atacama Desert in Chile. The region is known for the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), but…
In a recent study, radium was measured in untreated source water in wells from aquifers that are used for public and domestic water supply. This…
It took two chilling decades, but the Russian team has finally broken into Lake Vostok, the largest of the lakes hidden under Antarctica’s ice, and…
According to several newly published reports by the U.S. Geological Survey, coal-tar-based sealants are emitting polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) into the air at rates possibly…
While climate models can forecast temperature changes and precipitation, they struggle to indicate how climate change will affect the factors that make Earth habitable, such…
A team of Russian researchers is close to breaching Lake Vostok, a prehistoric lake that’s been trapped deep beneath the Antarctic surface for the last…
London has had an air quality problem for a long time and now they may have finally found a way to combat air pollution. They…
Da Vinci’s famous painting “The Last Supper” has managed to survive to this day, though it has faced its share of threats for centuries. (Surviving…