The authors use a first-of-its-kind approach to show that the increased cultivation of legumes would deliver higher nutritional value at lower environmental and resource costs.

Researchers say cultivated seaweed can soak up excess nutrients plaguing human health and marine life.

Efforts to prevent human exposure to asbestos may be mobilizing the cancer-causing mineral so that it can reach water supplies, based on new findings about how the fibers move through soil.

Vigorous and rapid air exchanges might not always be a good thing when it comes to addressing levels of coronavirus particles in a multiroom building, according to a new modeling study.

Wildfire smoke can trigger a host of respiratory and cardiovascular symptoms, ranging from a runny nose and cough to a potentially life-threatening heart attack or stroke.

Like superheroes capable of seeing through obstacles, environmental regulators may soon wield the power of all-seeing eyes that can identify violators anywhere at any time, according to a new Stanford University-led study.

The sudden, highly abundant presence of microplastics in the samples that came as a surprise.

The physical harm of living near a drilling site can rival that of secondhand smoke or living next to a freeway.

UCI graduate students, researchers traveled the world to chart major ocean regions.

Many long for a return to a post-pandemic “normal,” which, for some, may entail concerts, travel, and large gatherings.