On a cool spring morning in a northern forest, the ground feels soft underfoot. Mist hangs between the trunks, and the air smells of wet leaves and old humus; the slow alchemy that keeps a forest ...

Pollution and contamination encompass the introduction of harmful substances or energy into air, water, soil and biota at concentrations that endanger human health, ecosystem resilience and the ...

Pollution entering the ocean from the Tijuana River has been a problem for decades, but beach closures have increased in recent years Environmental educators say the closures are hurting kids and ...

Washington, D.C. — A new analysis reveals the persistent inequality in access to nearby nature in the United States across race, ethnicity, and income levels.

Filter-feeding mollusks respond to water pollution in a very detectable and measurable manner. With that fact in mind, scientists have created a commercial water-quality-monitoring system that uses ...

Kaddafi Polat rarely mentions his own health after decades of breathing the polluted air blanketing his village beneath the ...

Documents and data shared with BBC News from inside England's much criticised environment watchdog show an agency struggling to monitor incidents of serious pollution. The information shows the ...

Bart Doudna of Cedar Rapids holds up his sons Cameron Doudna, 5, and Quinn Doudna, 2, while posing for a portrait with a large lighted diamond ring during the Five Seasons Lights at McGrath ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has put more than 160 workers who tackle pollution in overburdened communities on leave. The employees were part of the agency’s Office of Environmental ...

Fifteen years ago, Beijing's Liangma riverbanks would have been smog-choked and deserted in winter, but these days they are ...