Using genes borrowed from bacteria, researchers have demonstrated fish and flies can be engineered to break down methylmercury and remove it from their bodies as a less harmful gas, offering new ways ...

Most environmental scientists agree that producing food from animals has a much greater environmental and climate impact than producing food from plants with equivalent nutritional value.

Pesticides are significantly harming wildlife across the planet, stunting growth, damaging reproduction and even causing ...

Light pollution is increasing globally, and having a negative impact on wildlife and humans. But according to DarkSky ...

PFAS exposure in Europe has been linked to excess deaths and health risks, prompting biomonitoring efforts and policy action ...

The cruise industry was already booming in Alaska, but some locals say its growth is putting a strain on the environment tourists come for.

Researchers warn that if this trend continues, entire species could disappear, leading to the collapse of ecosystems. A new ...

The combined effects of the impact and volcanism created unsustainable conditions for dinosaurs and many other species. With dinosaurs largely extinct, ecological niches were left vacant, paving the ...

Keith Grasman, a biologist who studies environmental health effects at the Grand Rapids ... "It doesn't look like an oil-floating-on-the-water kind of visible pollution problem, yet small amounts ...

Gulls and terns studied in known polluted shoreline areas had a host of worse health and reproductive outcomes than those in nonpolluted areas.

Wild animals die or flee their habitats ... direct and filter stormwater runoff) can capture water and provide relief from the heat-island effect that drives up temperatures in concrete-heavy ...

Microplastics are so pervasive that they can even be found in the air we breathe, and a new study examined the concerning effects they can have on human ... they're subject to similar exposure levels ...