Franz Geiger heads up a research group at Northwestern that uses lasers to see how tightly pollutants stick to other substances. This new field’s called environmental surface science–and research in ...

Lead, pesticides, brominated flame retardants, plastic additives, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and heavy metals. This is what researchers found when they collected dead hedgehogs to investigate ...

Many studies have shown that the burden of air pollution in the United States disproportionately falls on racial minorities, especially Black Americans. In August, a federal judge barred the EPA and ...

SHEFFIELD VILLAGE, Ohio — Even covered in ice and snow, French Creek's beauty is breathtaking. The creek flows through several parts of Lorain and Cuyahoga counties, with fish swimming downstream, ...

Smoke from the Bear Gulch Fire in the Olympic National Forest near Lake Cushman has been drifting across a large swath of Western Washington and intermittently worsening the air quality throughout the ...