Environment

Environment

Trash researcher tallies ocean pollution

Marcus Eriksen has always had a thing for trash, and now he tallies ocean pollution.

Environment

Air pollution linked to autism

Air pollution may double a pregnant woman's risk of having a child with autism, a new study suggests.

Health & Medicine

Year in review: Risks of e-cigarettes emerge

Electronic cigarettes dispense water vapor laced with flavors and often a hefty dose of nicotine. These vapors may be far from benign, studies in 2014 suggested.

Environment

Year in review: Microbes exploit their killer

Triclosan, an unregulated antimicrobial chemical found in consumer products, may aid, rather than deter, microbes that invade people’s bodies.

Environment

Black carbon fouls New York subway stations

Black carbon, a respiratory irritant, fouls air in New York subway stations.

Environment

DDT lingers in Michigan town

Decades after a plant manufacturing DDT shut down in Michigan, the harmful insecticide is still found in neighboring birds and eggs.

Environment

Colorado deluge produced flood of drug-resistance genes

Flooding in Colorado’s South Platte River Basin washed antibiotics and drug-resistance genes into pristine waterways.

Environment

Spiders enlisted as pollution sensors for rivers

Hunting arachnids provide a better picture of chemical threats to food web.

Environment

Thirdhand smoke poses lingering danger

Harmful cigarette chemicals that linger on surfaces, known as thirdhand smoke, can go on to pollute the air and may harm people’s health.

Environment

Oil from BP spill may be sitting on seafloor

More than four years after the Deepwater Horizon disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, scientists find that oil is still lingering over a large area on the seafloor.

Environment

No water contamination found in Ohio’s fracking epicenter

Methane in Ohio groundwater comes from biological sources, such as bacteria, not fossil fuel exploration.

Environment

Engineered plants demolish toxic waste

With help from bacteria, plants could one day clean up polluted sites.