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Mothers and children wait in Changanine community (Chibuto District), Mozambique to collect their seeds from the Red Cross. The community has been hit very hard by the current drought, many have lost their crops and locals have to walk up to five kilometres to dig for water. Image by Aurélie Marrier d'Unienville / IFRC via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0).

Breast milk contamination exposes Africa’s ‘forever chemicals’ problem

Malavika Vyawahare 10 Mar 2025
The world’s oceans naturally absorb vast amounts of atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Electrochemical removal of ocean CO2 offers potential — and concerns

Sean Mowbray 20 Dec 2024
A pale spear-nosed bat covered in pollen.

Brazil natural landscape degradation drives toxic metal buildup in bats

Sean Mowbray 11 Dec 2024
Food can pick up chemicals from to-go containers and everything else they contact on their way to your table. Credit: Taklamacuwv Lamia on Wikimedia Commons

Thousands of chemicals from food packaging found in humans, a major study reveals

Rita Aksenfeld 25 Nov 2024
A bottlenose dolphin.

Microplastics are sickening and killing wildlife, disrupting Earth systems

Sharon Guynup 21 Nov 2024
Fishers catch fish in a net in their aquaculture enclosure.

Overuse of antibiotics in Bangladesh aquaculture raises health concerns

Masum Billah 21 Nov 2024
A firefighter wears a breathing mask after the Maui fire to protect himself from toxic vapors.

As global fire risk rises, modern homes become toxic plastic traps

Alden Wicker 14 Nov 2024
Sunset and a Maersk container ship.

Shipping emissions reduction sheds light on marine cloud geoengineering

Claire Asher 13 Nov 2024
A fallen tree in the Amazon.

Brazil researchers boost timber traceability with new chemical analysis

Fernanda Wenzel 4 Nov 2024
The Atlantic Ocean from Massachusetts.

Controversial US marine geoengineering test delayed until next year

Jeremy Hance 2 Oct 2024
A steel production site in China.

Aluminum and steel vital to energy transition, but need circular solutions

Sean Mowbray 18 Sep 2024
Blast furnace in Duisburg, Germany.

Aluminum and steel take environment and health toll, even as demand grows

Sean Mowbray 17 Sep 2024
Silhouette of a plane.

Will we be ready? Geoengineering policy lags far behind pace of climate change

Charles Pekow 26 Aug 2024
The ocean

Cloud brightening over oceans may stave off climate change, but with risk

Sean Mowbray 12 Aug 2024
Bioplastics drying during a testing setting.

Most ‘compostable’ bioplastics are anything but, says new report

Alden Wicker 31 Jul 2024

Beyond deforestation, oil palm estates pose flood and water contamination risks

Hans Nicholas Jong 21 May 2024
Bioplastic samples in a lab.

Bioplastics as toxic as regular plastics; both need regulation, say researchers

Alden Wicker 22 Apr 2024
A tapir amid a harvested cornfield in northern Mato Grosso, west-central Brazil, in a transition area between the Cerrado and the Amazon.

Tapirs in Brazil’s Cerrado inspire research on human health & pesticides

Michael Esquer 10 Apr 2024
A farmer shows an unpeeled corn.

Fertilizer management could reduce ammonia pollution from 3 staple crops: Study

Claire Asher 18 Mar 2024
Fakir Altaf Hussain, a fisher in Bangladesh, fishing in his pond.

Pollution poses big risks to global clean water supplies, study shows

Sean Mowbray 6 Mar 2024
Hippos in Queen Elizabeth National Park.

In climate-related flooding, a Ugandan river turns poisonous

Ashoka Mukpo 6 Mar 2024
A farmer spraying pesticides in a rice field.

Scientists and doctors raise global alarm over hormone-disrupting chemicals

Alden Wicker 4 Mar 2024
Johan Rockström.

Planetary boundary pioneer Johan Rockström awarded 2024 Tyler Prize

Glenn Scherer 29 Feb 2024
The LNG carrier Shahamah in Uraga Channel, Japan.

U.S. natural gas expansion would surrender world to fatal warming, experts say

Shanna Hanbury 27 Feb 2024
A female western hoolock gibbon with its baby.

Herbicide used in Bangladesh tea production threatens biodiversity & health

Farhana Parvin 19 Feb 2024
A woman is laying leather out to dry in Bangladesh.

Fashioning a circular future for traditional and alternative leather

Sean Mowbray 6 Feb 2024

In Nepal’s Chitwan, tourist pools spell possible trouble for environment & wildlife

Abhaya Raj Joshi 30 Jan 2024
A herd of cows.

Agricultural nitrogen pollution is global threat, but circular solutions await

Claire Asher 16 Jan 2024
Rubber duckies

As the world swims in plastic, some offer an answer: Ban the toxic two

Alden Wicker 2 Jan 2024

Study: Fishing with pesticides and dynamite puts Ecuadorian Amazon in peril

Mark Hillsdon 2 Jan 2024
A waste processing management facility

Chemical recycling of plastic not so fantastic, report finds

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 24 Nov 2023
Throwaway single-use plastic trash at a festival in Germany.

Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran & petrochemical industry stall plastics treaty: Critics

Charles Pekow 22 Nov 2023

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