pollution
As air pollution increases, so does violent crime.
It’s time to rethink how satellites and other objects are made and eventually destroyed.
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Since 1957, the world’s space agencies have been polluting the space above us with countless pieces of junk, threatening our technological infrastructure and ability to venture deeper into space.
Noise causes stress. For our ancestors, it meant danger: thunder, animal roars, war cries, triggering a ‘fight or run’ reaction.
When we look at the night sky, we may see junk instead of stars.
Masks are great, but what happens when we try to throw out a billion masks at once?
A new paper explores how noise from human activities pollutes the oceans, and what we can do to fix it.
In a joint briefing at the 101st American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting, NASA and NOAA revealed 2020’s scorching climate data.
The satellite would burn instead of becoming more space debris.
More evidence that we’re drowning in microplastic particles.
Can passenger airships make a triumphantly ‘green’ comeback?
India finishes last of 60 countries in environment and sustainability, as ranked by the expats who work there.
Noise pollution is terrible for our health, yet we don’t discuss it often enough.
Stone stackers enjoy the practice as a peaceful challenge, but scientists warn that moving small stones has mountainous consequences.
Animals are adapting all the time these days to stay out of our way.
A European start-up uses satellite data to pinpoint individual sources of abnormal methane concentration.
Why did the dinosaurs go extinct? Because they didn’t have a space program.
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Dr. Kate Biberdorf explains why boiling water makes it safer and how water molecules are unusual and cool.
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The researchers hope to develop a no-trace plastic to curtail marine pollution and ghost fishing.
O.T. Olsen’s gorgeous ‘Piscatorial Atlas’ (1883) describes a world now destroyed and forgotten
A new study says that it could be centuries before millions of the classic toys submerged in the Earth’s seas disintegrate.
Study finds that a colony’s exposure to pesticides impairs offspring.
Methane is 80 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.
Graphene is insanely useful, but very difficult to produce — until now.
Air pollution poses “a significant risk to brain development” according to researchers.
The racing plane is hoped to be the fastest electric plane in existence.
Fast fashion has a devastating impact on the environment. Here’s what you need to know before heading to Zara this holiday season.
Rather than scrubbing the emissions from fossil fuel plants, a new analysis suggests we should simply replace those power plants with renewable alternatives.
Electrochemical methods such as this could someday dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions around the planet.