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Inger Andersen, UNEP’s Executive Director, urges stronger science‑based multilateralism, solidarity and funding to safeguard the environment as the foundation of security.

The thought cameto Cassandra Rauert while she was new on the job as an analytical chemist studying microplastics in human tissues: Maybe I should test my own blood? This was six y ...

Tobin handled the situation as she always does: by validating her kids’ feelings, helping them see each other’s perspectives ...

One sunny July morning, on a lake in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains, two scientists skimmed a black inflatable raft back and forth across the water. Isabella Oleksy, an ecologist at the University of ...

If you think plastic pollution is something that floats out at sea or washes up on a beautiful Bahamian beach, think again.

High in the Rockies, researchers are discovering that wind-borne pollution and rising heat are fueling unprecedented algal blooms ...

The Charleston Waterkeeper has opened a new Community Science Lab where volunteers can help monitor local water quality and microplastic pollution across 18 testing sites.

Extremophiles may well be tiny, but they are making a huge contribution to the health of our planet and our lives. A new review of these microorganisms, published in the journal Frontiers in ...

Ethylene oxide rarely makes headlines, yet it quietly sterilizes about half of all medical devices used in the United States.