Scientists have uncovered new evidence that fireworks can pollute both the air and water in ways that extend beyond the ...

Fireworks are spectacular, but they have a serious ecological and public health cost. Explosion residues and smoke alter ...

Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are a class of synthetic chemicals widely used in industrial processes and consumer products because of their resistance to heat, water and oil.

UC Santa Barbara researchers and their colleagues estimate that without intervention, plastic pollution is on track to double by 2050. But in a study published in the journal Science, these same ...

A polluted river in Mexico may be scrambling the love lives of two small fish species — so much so that it may be erasing the ...

A coalition of groups petition the FCC to conduct an environmental review of the potential impact of space-based data centers as a growing number of companies move to build them.

The latest version of a map identifying parts of California with the worst pollution and other problems features Kern so prominently that the county almost doesn’t need a label or boundary lines. An ...