In the air, on land and in the sea, the Smithsonian is building new tools for resilient ecosystems—innovative approaches and technologies that will provide knowledge and open up avenues to understand ...

Kane was struck by the high concentrations of microplastics found in the sediment, especially because Whittard Canyon is so ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct ... This means more toxic air pollution and plastic in our oceans. We need urgent ...

A study published by researchers at the University at Albany has presented the first documented evidence that Adirondack ...

The Roman Empire's pervasive influence once reached across land, sea, and even sky. During the golden age of Roman imperialism, air pollution grew so inescapable that researchers now suspect it ...

But alongside their art, philosophy, and conquests, these early sea-faring societies left behind something else — traces of heavy metal pollution in the very sediment of the land and sea they ...