The surf may be up at California's Huntington Beach, but pollution levels are down. A study by scientists at the University of California, Irvine, suggests the recent rash of beach closures in ...

This summer, a group of volunteers spent quite a bit of time out on the beach combing through the sand in search of microplastics. “The microplastic sampling program we modified from the EPA’s beach ...

Early epidemiology studies were concerned with short-term effects associated with daily changes in ambient air quality. However, a 1970 publication attributed differences in long-term survival rates ...

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AirPhoton, a tech company working out of bwtech@UMBC, recently received a contract to provide instruments for an air quality investigation being conducted by the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, ...

OSSINING, N.Y. (AP) — The environmental group Riverkeeper’s annual Hudson River report shows many locations still fail to meet federal guidelines for safe swimming. The report released Thursday says ...

This spring, 10 to 12 student operators will be taking air samples using the latest prototype from HabitatMap. The goal is to get five sampling devices out into the community by March 8, said Michael ...