When the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement was passed in the 1970s, eutrophication was the big problem. Eutrophication ...

A new global analysis finds that many of the world's most threatened seagrass meadows lie within designated Marine Protected ...

The most recent State of the Air report by the American Lung Association found that more than 150 million Americans breathe ...

Almost half of everyone who lives in the United States breathes unhealthy levels of air pollution, according to the American ...

Weakening or rolling back longstanding environmental regulations would worsen the problem, the American Lung Association ...

Despite improvements in air quality in past decades, 156 million Americans still breathe in too much soot or ozone, says the ...

As plastic pollution in the world's oceans reaches critical levels, recently published research reveals how artificial ...

A new study, co-authored by University of Chicago scholars in the May issue of The Quarterly Journal of Economics, experimentally evaluates the world’s first cap-and-trade market for particulate ...

Some of the world’s leading rice-producing countries are sitting on a vast belt of pollution caused by heavy metal, according to a new study that has raised urgent concerns about global food safety.

Thousands of events are scheduled across the globe to celebrate Earth Day on Tuesday, April 22. Here's a handful happening in ...