Tyre particles and potentially toxic tyre chemical additives have been found in dust collected from Brisbane residential balconies.

Scientists have found evidence of microplastics and nanoplastics in remote soils of Antarctica.

Most of the carbon released during Canada’s record-breaking 2023 wildfire season came from burning soil and peat, rather than trees, according to new research from McMaster University.

Human activities are fundamentally altering the chemical makeup of local coral reefs, according to a study led by the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and published in Nature Communications. 

Scripps-led review calls for aquatic deoxygenation to be recognized as a critical planetary process under threat.

Research by Oregon State University biologists suggests that toxic air stemming from wildfires won’t necessarily prompt animals to flee in search of better breathing conditions.

A newer ‘climate-friendly’ refrigerant used in car air conditioning systems, may already be a significant, and possibly dominant, source of a ‘forever chemical’ pollutant across Europe, according to a new University of Bristol-led study.

The by-products of modern society appear to be messing with the love life of two tiny fish species that have long coexisted in Mexican rivers.

The ability of bacteria to remove pollutants from soil, water, mine waste and other environments could be supercharged by a ‘friendly’ compatible virus, according to a study led by Flinders University.

A new “prescription for the planet” aims to address the deepening environmental crisis.