The United States generates more plastic waste than any other country in the world — producing 42 million metric tons, or 286 pounds per person, in 2016 alone, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances.

A group of researchers from The University of New Mexico Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, led by Distinguished Professor Hua Guo, have teamed up with colleagues from Texas A&M University to understand more about the photochemistry of Earth’s ozone.

An estimated 5 billion tons of desert dust disperses into Earth’s atmosphere every year. Some of it makes its way to the roof of the world — the Himalayas.

The unusually red and acidic Rio Tinto harbors microscopic life that could inform the search for life on Mars.

A research group at the Texas A&M School of Public Health has found a way to decrease the number of toxic chemicals in drinking water.

Years of exporting plastic waste abroad masked actual U.S. contribution to plastic pollution crisis.

New simulations have provided clues on reducing peat fires, which hide underground and are notoriously bad for human health and the environment.

Commercially sold water filters do a good job of making sure any lead from residential water pipes does not make its way into water used for drinking or cooking.

Researchers with the University of Saskatchewan’s (USask) Institute of Space and Atmospheric Studies are part of a global team that has found that the smoke cloud pushed into the stratosphere by last winter’s Australian wildfires was three times larger than anything previously recorded.

When satellites take pictures of Earth at night, how much of the light that they see comes from streetlights?