February 16, 2017 India's air pollution is now as deadly as China's China has long been the world's worst when it comes to air pollution, but a new study suggests that India's trouble is now on par with China's and poised to exceed it.
February 8, 2017 Incredibly high radiation levels discovered at crippled Fukushima plant Newly-discovered radiation levels in one of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant’s reactors are stunningly high.
January 31, 2017 First images of huge, stunning Amazon coral reef released Scientists working in the waters off the coast of South America have released the first images of the stunning Amazon Reef.
December 28, 2016 Pollution from dead Ivy League lab mice worries neighborhood Neighbors of a Dartmouth College property where for years the Ivy League school disposed of mice and other small animals used in science experiments say they fear pollution from the site has contaminated their groundwater and they worry the school hasn't been completely up front with them.
December 27, 2016 Alaskans battle a unique problem: Dirty winter air Odds are old Saint Nick was happy to flee the North Pole to make his annual rounds this Christmas.
December 13, 2016 Mystery solved! Cause of London's 1952 'killer fog' revealed London may be known for its drizzly weather, but in 1952 the city's quintessential fog cover turned deadly, and no one knew why — until now.
November 28, 2016 Inside the new effort to entomb Chernobyl's wreckage In the aftermath of the world's worst nuclear disaster in Chernobyl in 1986, which resulted in radiation that ultimately reached as far as Japan and the US, the Soviet Union slapped together a massive sarcophagus of metal and concrete as hastily as possible to contain further fallout at the site of reactor 4.
November 17, 2016 Missouri couple says WWII nuclear waste made home unsafe During World War II, St. Louis was home to a purification plant for raw uranium ore as part of the Manhattan Project, which led to a dumping ground and storage site for radioactive waste.
October 6, 2016 'Great Pacific Garbage Patch' is worse than thought There's an enormous, floating "island" of trash in the Pacific Ocean, and it's much bigger than previously believed, reports the Guardian.
August 31, 2016 One of our largest water sources contains toxic salt, too much arsenic A river basin in southern Asia is so enormous that 750 million people rely on it for their groundwater.