Most farm climate pollution comes from rice and peat soils, and a new map reveals exactly where the biggest hotspots are.

Air pollution and health outcomes vary by geography, but patterns in the city can be surprising. By Akiva Blander In New York City, air pollution is unevenly distributed among the city’s neighborhoods ...

Jenni Shearston has received funding from the National Institutes of Health. I grew up in rural Colorado, deep in the mountains, and I can still remember the first time I visited Denver in the early ...

Chemicals foul wells used for drinking water and fuel harmful algae that can make people sick, a Times investigation shows. Chemicals foul wells used for drinking water and fuel harmful algae that can ...

The Denver Creates fund has awarded a local animation studio a $10,000 grant to offer free animation courses to kids and adults. Since 2023, Mile High Animation has offered a summer camp and workshop ...

Right now, an estimated 130 million metric tons of plastic waste enters the air, water, soil, and human bodies every year. By 2040, that number will jump to 280 million metric tons—about a garbage ...

The surging tide of microplastics is already an environmental and health threat, but as the world heats up — driving increasingly extreme weather — it’s transforming them into “more mobile, persistent ...

UC Davis researchers engineered wheat that encourages soil bacteria to convert atmospheric nitrogen into plant-usable fertilizer. By boosting a natural compound in the plant, the wheat triggers ...

New research has revealed for the first time the full extent of how "Artificial Light At Night" (ALAN) is increasing carbon released by plants and animals across continents—without any increase in the ...

A team of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has introduced a groundbreaking nature-based solution to tackle global soil pollution—a crisis threatening ecosystems, agriculture, and human ...

Shruthi Mahalingaiah, a Harvard researcher, investigated the fertility risks women face from air pollution. But her grant was canceled. Credit...Cody O'Loughlin for The New York Times Supported by ...

The Council today formally adopted the soil monitoring directive, establishing the first-ever EU-wide framework for assessing and monitoring soils, with the overarching aspirational goal of achieving ...