High above the earth, a cutting-edge satellite is passing around Earth 15 times per day. It is hunting for leaks of methane – ...

Countries are meeting in South Korea this week to hash out the final details of a global treaty aimed at eliminating plastic ...

By Alden Wicker “Plastics pollution exacerbates the impacts of all [nine] planetary boundaries,” warns a report published ...

Millions of tons of plastic end up in Earth’s water bodies ... with the largest emissions of planet-warming greenhouse gases, ...

Planet-warming pollution in Earth’s atmosphere last year hit the highest levels in human history, scientists announced Monday ...

UNEP executive director Inger Andersen said the agreement “marks a triumph by planet earth over single-use ... us towards a future with no plastic pollution, including in the marine environment.

In our monthly feature, Then and Now, we reveal some of the ways that planet Earth has been changing against the backdrop of a warming world. Air pollution has long been one of the biggest killers ...

The project will work by leveraging the growing global satellite network that surrounds the earth to observe power ... pollutants that cause local air pollution but to be effective, any regulation ...

and water and air pollution are all well-established environmental problems. Chemists have always cared about the earth. Unfortunately, some materials designed using chemistry have contributed to the ...