A study published Dec. 29 in Environmental Science & Technology, a journal of the American Chemical Society, found that ...

Microplastics in rivers, lakes, and oceans aren’t just drifting debris—they’re constantly leaking invisible clouds of ...

A study reports that, around the world, wildfires and prescribed burns could emit substantially more gases, including ones ...

As fires burn the landscape, they spew airborne gases and particles, though their impact on air pollution might be ...

Updated global data show wildfire smoke pollution is higher than past estimates, with implications for air quality and ...

VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, are compounds that contain carbon atoms and that, at room temperature, easily evaporate. Too small to see and virtually omnipresent both indoors and out, they can ...

In 2013, the Curiosity rover drilled this hole, which measures about 0.6 inches wide and 2.6 inches deep, into martian rock. The sample is now thought to contain long-chain organic molecules. NASA / ...

A cornerstone rule of organic chemistry that has guided students and researchers for a century has just been shown to be ...

Scientists have discovered that wildfires emit far more air-polluting gases than earlier estimates suggested. These hidden ...