The Arctic is shaped by its cold, harsh climate and limited daylight hours during winter. But the typically frigid region is warming about four times faster than the rest of the planet, which has facilitated more transportation and increased development.

Microplastics are an environmental hazard found nearly everywhere on Earth, released by the breakdown of tires, clothing, and plastic packaging.

MIT chemical engineers have devised a way to capture methane, a potent greenhouse gas, and convert it into polymers.

Environmental exposure to toxins in the air, water or certain chemicals can increase the risk of ill health effects, including to the human brain.

Scattered across the United States are remnants from almost 170 years of commercial drilling: hundreds of thousands of forgotten oil and gas wells.

Grazing cattle given a seaweed supplement produced close to 40 percent less methane than those fed grass alone, a new study found.

Oregon State University scientists have found a way to more than double the uptake ability of a chemical structure that can be used for scrubbing carbon dioxide from factory flues.

The first-known direct observations of the movement of microfiber plastics through a thin layer of soil-like particles show that they tend to tumble, roll and sometimes get stuck in spaces.

In the upper reaches of a Minnesota watershed, the water is so full of dissolved nitrous oxide that University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign hydrologist Zhongjie Yu likens it to a soda can. 

UBC researchers fed mealworms ground-up face masks mixed with bran and found that the bugs excreted a small fraction of the microplastics consumed.