A new study finds there are 27 million metric tons of invisible plastic particles in the North Atlantic alone.

Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

Berkeley scientists have developed a smartphone-based biosensor that mimics coffee-ring physics to detect disease proteins with exceptional sensitivity — but more research is needed before it reaches ...

Plastic waste pollutes oceans across all regions of the world. Marine animals may become entangled in larger plastic debris ...

The current infrastructure also isn’t set up to fully account for the shifting behavior of wildfire smoke, which can travel ...

A wildfire was "at the gates" of Marseille, the mayor of the French city has warned. The nearby airport was forced to ...

Environmental activists assert that air pollution in Jakarta and its surrounding areas has entered a chronic phase.

Don’t call them Duergar—they’re dark dwarfs. A new study published in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP) proposes that the core of our galaxy is full of an all-new category of ...

Microplastics (MPs) pollution is a prevalent environmental problem that affects ecosystems globally. Despite the growing ...

Particle characterization through light scattering offers non-invasive, precise measurements, crucial for advancements in ...

The gel-spun ultrahigh molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fibers were prepared at the industrial production line with different gel solution concentration of 10–18 wt %. The effect of gel solution ...