Extreme weather events, such as floods, droughts and torrential rains, affect the water quality in lakes, rivers and coastal areas.

The Antarctic ozone layer is recovering, a major environmental success following the Montreal Protocol. 

If there were an apex predator among fires, tropical peatland fires would be a top contender. 

A new study by University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers shows that nearly 23% of short-finned pilot whales that stranded over 13 years in the main Hawaiian Islands ingested several pounds of plastic ropes, netting, fishing gear and plastic bags that were discarded in the ocean.

Ocean plastic pollution is accidentally on the menu for southern giant petrel chicks.

Emissions from aircraft that use leaded aviation gasoline are a significant source of environmental pollution in neighborhoods near regional airports, a new study by researchers at Oregon State University and Portland State University has found.

Polyvinyl chloride, or PVC, is among the most common plastics on the planet but also one of the hardest to recycle responsibly. 

Microplastics are turning up almost everywhere – from oceans and rivers to soils and sediments – yet far less is known about what happens when they enter freshwater wetlands.

UTS researchers are piloting technology that could reduce methane emissions from mining by more than 90 per cent.

Scientists have uncovered why Antarctica became engulfed by ice millions of years before the Arctic.