As nations prepare to meet in Uruguay to negotiate a new Global Plastics Treaty, a new study has revealed the discovery of synthetic plastic fibres in air, seawater, sediment and sea ice sampled in the Antarctic Weddell Sea. 

A new report coauthored by University of Waterloo professor Maria Strack has provided the most comprehensive assessment of the world's peatlands to date and identified actions governments should take to improve their protection, restoration and sustainable management.

Dust particles from central South America were the most important source of iron in the South Pacific during the last two ice ages.

November brought a new round of explosions, volcanic tremors, and gas and steam emissions to Ecuador’s most active volcano.

The diminished power of the immune system in older adults is usually blamed on the aging process. 

The warming during the summer months in Europe has been much faster than the global average, shows a new study by researchers at Stockholm University published in the Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres.

Diesel-fueled freight trucks play an outsized role in producing India’s total greenhouse gas and air pollution emissions.

Researchers now have a unique resource for identifying new biomarkers of environmental exposures in early life and understanding their health effects.

Almost 20 years after the adoption of hydraulic fracturing began to supercharge U.S. production of oil and gas, there’s growing evidence of a correlation between the industry’s activities and an array of health problems ranging from childhood cancer and the premature death of elderly people to respiratory issues and endocrine disruption.

The Arctic is warming three times faster than the global average.