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Two Altadena residents set out to collect testing data for toxic contaminants within the Eaton burn area's standing homes. They found lead everywhere.

The president's environmental actions will significantly increase the cost of living for millions of people and bring about hundreds of thousands of premature deaths.

New proposed rules would set environmental goals for southern California ports. But stakeholders say they wouldn't have much impact, anyway.

The EPA rolls back regulations, NASA launches two exciting missions, and we discuss the surprising way whale urine moves nitrogen across the ocean.

Protect the environment? Nah, that was the old guiding principle.

Abington residents packed a community meeting in the hopes of learning lasting impacts the SPS Technologies fire may have had on the environment.

In world-first observations, the James Webb Space Telescope is watching two distant alien planets "spilling their guts into space" as they rapidly disintegrate — and scientists are elated at what they've found.

On Nov. 9, 2024, the world will mark Carl Sagan's 90th birthday – but sadly without Sagan, who died in 1996 at the age of 62. Most people remember him as the co-creator and host of the 1980 "Cosmos" television series, watched worldwide by hundreds of millions of people. Others read "Contact," his be...

Data visualizations show how air pollution has changed in cities around the world since 1850.

We've tested plenty of fire pits in the last several years, from portable to smokeless to portable. These are the models that stand out against the rest.

Turquoise hydrogen is made by the process of decomposing methane (methane pyrolysis), which can be either fossil or biological in origin. Turquoise hydrogen is considered low carbon because it creates a solid carbon (carbon black) that can easily be separated from the process. Since the carbon falls out in a solid form, there is no […]

Anthropogenic evolution is affecting species across the planet

The North Pole region heats up faster than the rest of the world. Though this is a known fact, climate models underestimate the speed with which the region warms up. Sjoert Barten obtained his PhD on this subject at Wageningen University & Research on 26 April and shares his insights.

The Department of Energy announced $6 billion in clean energy and climate funding for mac and cheese, ice cream, whiskey, steel, aluminum, chemicals, paper, and cement manufacturing.

From abstract-looking cloud formations to roars of snow machines on ski slopes, the transformation of liquid water into solid ice touches many facets of life. Water's freezing point is generally accepted to be 32 degrees Fahrenheit. But that is due to ice nucleation—impurities in everyday water raise its freezing point to this temperature. Now, researchers unveil a theoretical model that shows how specific…

According to a new report, travelers with breathing issues might want to avoid India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, which have the highest levels of air pollution globally.

As the world transitions to electric vehicles, African companies and governments face significant challenges.

What Oscar winner Oppenheimer gets right — and wrong — about the threat of nuclear weapons.

The U.S. EPA is tightening national standards for fine particulate matter — a health threat that has been linked to lung and heart disease.