Latest Pollution Stories
Study Finds Fireworks Contaminated Groundwater Near Mount Rushmore
Does Earth Day still matter?
This Sea Cucumber Looks Like A Burnt Hot Dog, And It’s In Trouble
Mark Zuckerberg Goes For Blissful ‘Smog Jog’ In Beijing
This Type Of Pollution Hid Global Warming From Us For Years
This Lab Can Create Category 5 Hurricanes
A Building That Eats Smog
How Did Lead Get Into Flint River Water?
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Storks Are Changing Migration Patterns To Lunch At Landfills
What Are Microbeads And Why Are They Illegal?
Big Idea: Pollution Can Be Inherited
Could This Simple Tube Save The World?
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The Ozone Hole Is Now Larger Than North America
Volkswagen’s Scandalous Emissions Will Prematurely Kill 60 Americans
You Probably Have Carbon Nanotubes In Your Lungs
Your Seafood Might Contain Tiny Plastic Particles
Using Nanoparticles And Mussel Glue To Clean Up Oil Spills
This Gel Glows When It Detects Pollutants
The Sounds Of Living Coral Reefs Are Breathtaking And Important
Pollution-Eating Tower Would Turn Smog Into Rings And Cufflinks
Nano-Sized Synthetic Coral Could Suck Up Ocean’s Pollutants
Mercury Scrubbers On Power Plants Clean Up Other Pollutants, Too
Air Pollution Made Disastrous Floods In China Worse
Fireworks Bring Exhilaration, Joy, And Pollution
We’re Entering A Sixth Mass Extinction, And It’s Our Fault
How Filthy Is Your Neighborhood? This Map Can Tell You
Five Trillion Pieces Of Plastic Are Floating In An Ocean Near You [Interactive]
Is It Possible For New York City To Have Zero Waste?
A Wearable Pollution Monitor
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Urban Drivers Are Emitting Way More Carbon Dioxide Than We Thought
Glow-In-The-Dark Tampons Used To Find Sewage-Filled Waterways
Kublai Khan And The Mongols Were Terrible Polluters
Chemicals From Beauty Products Have Migrated To Antarctica
Researchers Find Just How Much Plastic We’re Putting Into The Ocean
A Robotic Water Snake To Sniff Out Pollution [Video]
Is This The Cruise Ship Of The Future?
Turning Old Lead Batteries Into New Solar Energy
To Clean Up Oil Spills, Magnetize The Oil First
Does ‘The Ocean Cleanup’ Stand Up To Peer Review?
Satellite Images Show Massive Reduction In US Air Pollution
Painted Sunsets Hold Record of Volcanic Eruptions, Pollution
Deepwater Horizon Spill May Be Responsible For Heart Defects In Fish
Six Years After Chemical Ban, Fewer Female Snails Are Growing Penises
How Biking In Traffic Affects Your Body
What Would Happen If You Drank Water From The Gowanus Canal?
How To Make A Beach Clean Itself
Does The Tesla Model S Electric Car Pollute More Than An SUV?
FYI: What’s The Worst Pollutant In The World?
How The U.S. Coast Guard Is Fixing The N.J. Oil Spill Caused By Sandy
Your Clothes Could Soon Scrub Pollution Directly From The Air
Sea Chair Project Collects Ocean Plastic Garbage to Make Stylish Sitting Stools
China’s “Human Sniffers” Tasked With Finding Potentially Hazardous Gas Emissions
Yes, Deepwater Horizon Oil Did Enter the Food Chain
How to Pump Half a Million Gallons of Fuel From a Listing Cruise Liner
New Magnetic Soap Could Clean Oil Spills With No Suds Left Behind
Winner of Million-Dollar X Challenge Cleans Up Oil Spills Three Times Better Than Existing Tech
With Shuttle Launches Over, Cleanup of Launch Zone Chemicals Will Take Decades and Millions of Dollars
New Study of Gulf Oil Spill Details the Plume’s Chemical Makeup, Helping Explain Where the Oil Went
130 Feet Above the Amazon Rainforest, Scientists Sample the Last Pristine Air on Earth
Autonomous Swarming Robots Can Skim Sea Surface, Collecting Oil As A Team
Bacteria Have Eaten Giant Gulf Oil Plume, New Study Says
Islands of Garbage, Washed In By Rain, Threaten to Overrun China’s Three Gorges Dam
Reducing Soot Might Be Shortcut to Reverse Climate Change, New Study Says
A Slick Fix: Oil-Eating Robots Could Mop Up Ocean Disasters