After a Falcon 9 rocket stage burned up in the atmosphere, vaporised lithium and other metals drifted over Europe. This ...

It is commonly assumed that tiny particles just go with the flow as they make their way through soil, biological tissue, and other complex materials. But a team of Yale researchers led by Professor ...

The city has installed 76 sensors to track levels of particulate matter and nitrogen dioxide — pollutants that aggravate asthma and other health conditions.

The NJDEP declared Feb. 18 an Air Quality Action Day for particulate matter in New Jersey. Here's what you need to know.

A Code Orange alert is in effect Wednesday, Feb. 18, for all of southeastern Pennsylvania due to poor air quality levels ...

Emerging evidence suggests nanoplastics accumulate in human tissues including the brain and may contribute to neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative disease pathways. However, causality, exposure ...

A wave of recent research is forcing scientists to confront an uncomfortable reality: the air filling homes, offices, and ...

Plastic pollution remains one of the world’s most challenging environmental problems. Plastic pollution has been found ...

A study published in Nature suggests that land sources of plastic release about 600 quadrillion microplastic particles into the atmosphere every year.

When Texas A&M University-Central Texas Assistant Professor of engineering, Praveen Malali, 41, is in his mechanical engineering technology lab, he is very much — pardon the pun — in his ...

Tiny magnetic soil particles in Rajasthan reveal new clues about the iron-rich meteorite that struck the area thousands of years ago ...

Multidimensional electron microscopy refers to a family of advanced electron microscopy techniques that extend conventional ...