Browsing: pollution

Air pollution from oil and gas causes more than 90,000 premature deaths and sickens hundreds of thousands of people across the US each year, a new…

Scientists are calling for a new global regime to address air pollution caused by the space industry.Prof Eloise Marais’s team at University College London (UCL) began…

Urban birds stay up significantly later than their rural counterparts, according to research that highlights the impact of light pollution on wildlife.The study, based on recordings…

Once again negotiators will leave the plastic summit this week without a treaty, having failed to reach agreement in what was supposed to have been the…

As the UK’s Big Butterfly Count reaches more than 100,000 submissions, an international group of scientists have produced the first national survey of biodiversity using an…

Chemical pollution is “a threat to the thriving of humans and nature of a similar order as climate change” but decades behind global heating in terms…

Can Astronomers and Satellite Operators Learn to Share the Sky?Satellite streaks are ruining astronomical images. Can scientists and space companies find solutions before it’s too late?By…

Plastic pollution has reached the most remote and inaccessible parts of our beleaguered planet. It has been found in Greenland’s ice cap, near the summit of…

Good morning. Not only does plastic waste clog up waterways, beaches and strangle sea life, it also causes havoc inside the human body. Tiny fragments –…

What is the administration doing?The endangerment finding, enshrined in 2009, found that greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health. It followed a 2007 supreme court…