About 100 million metric tons of high-density polyethylene (HDPE), one of the world's most commonly used plastics, are ...

Protecting remaining strongholds and minimising human impacts on food sources will be crucial to avoiding further population ...

The White House is revoking its authority to oversee implementation of a landmark environmental law. It's creating a ...

Some of the environmental factors are modifiable, the researchers said. Nature versus nurture: Scientists are gathering more evidence on which has more of an impact on human well-being amid the ...

Indian climate leaders [top executives of entities associated with mitigating carbon emission, policy makers] have highlighted the need for rating businesses based on their environmental impact to ...

Steve Koehler, a board member for the Olympic Environmental Council, advocated for banning fireworks displays saying there ...

The consequences of firing thousands of environmental employees from the federal government could range from worsened responses to pollution to less access at national parks, former federal ...

The combination of huge quantities of burning jet fuel from the tanker, and toxic chemicals from the cargo ship, could cause major environmental ... but what about it's impact if spilled into ...

Without plants on land, humans could not live on Earth. From mosses to ferns to grasses to trees, plants are our food, fodder ...

Toxins Found in Almost Every Sample A new study from the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel highlights the long-term environmental contamination caused by unexploded ordnance in the ...

"At this stage, it's too early to assess the extent of any environmental damage," Greenpeace U.K. said in a statement early Tuesday, explaining that the severity of any impact would depend on a ...