Plastics don’t just pose a threat to the marine environment and people’s health; they jeopardize basic human rights. This is the framing that a growing number of legal experts, policymakers, and ...

Most animals, including humans, carry an internal lunar clock, tuned to the 29.5-day rhythm of the moon. It guides sleep, ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) welcomes the opportunity to provide information to the Special Rapporteur to inform her upcoming ...

Explore 8 beaches around the world that reveal the devastating effects of pollution on our shorelines. See how human impact ...

Acid rain is a very broad term. It encompasses not only rain but also other forms of precipitation including fog, hail, sleet, snow, dust, and gas. It can even cause haze or smog, contributing to the ...

As final global plastics treaty negotiations take place in Geneva, The Lancet elevates plastic pollution as a grave, global threat to human health. “To those meeting in Geneva: Please take up the ...

One day in January, foamy waves jostled the edge of a floating dock in New York City’s Hudson River Park. The structure, assembled from interlocking rectangles, looked bucking, alive, insistent on ...

All kinds of pollution is extremely harmful for human health, but the one that hardly gets talked about is light pollution.

Air pollution is widely recognized as a public health hazard, but its role in workplace safety is often underestimated. A new ...

New research shows that wildfires are a major contributor to ozone pollution, and can significantly exceed the impacts of ...

Algal bloom triggered by sewage discharges could be causing in dolphins the same form of brain degeneration seen in humans ...

For decades Ohio made policies to favor fossil fuels over renewable sources like wind and solar. That's caused impacts to health and the environment. We explore in part two of WOSU's State of Energy ...