The Natural History GCSE will focus on wildlife, the impact of humans on the natural world and biodiversity, plus fieldwork ...

A new United Nations assessment of ocean health documents a “deepening crisis” as climate change, pollution, overfishing and biodiversity loss threaten marine ecosystems crucial to human survival. The ...

New Delhi: The National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Saturday suggested that the environmental management plan (EMP) developed for AIIMS, Delhi, be adapted and implemented in other government hospitals ...

In Hawaii, researchers are literally paving the roads with good intentions. They have come up with an innovative method for putting the island’s plastic pollution to work, covering its roads with ...

To understand the human genome, scientists focused on protein-coding genes and their functions for decades. This has given us invaluable knowledge about the inner workings of the human body. But that ...

MethaneSAT, the world’s most advanced methane-detecting satellite and first spacecraft owned by an environmental nonprofit, promised to usher in a new era of climate accountability when the device ...

Internal emails reveal that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to stop assigning a dollar value to the health benefits of reducing fine particulate matter, known as PM2.5, and ozone.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may soon stop putting a dollar value on the health benefits of cleaner air. The move, experts warn, could lead to weaker protections against some of the ...

In a reversal, the agency plans to calculate only the cost to industry when setting pollution limits, and not the monetary value of saving human lives, documents show. By Maxine Joselow Reporting from ...

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

After months of work and political wrangling over potential legal impact, a new, small network of air sensors began collecting real-time data in four Mississippi River communities and has already ...

The global relocation of industries driven by economic shifts has altered pollution patterns worldwide. Assessing heavy metal contamination in river sediments, which act as both sinks and potential ...