Researchers met with the city of Dawson Creek in British Columbia to share insights about how fracking in the region is affecting public health.

Exclusive: Some scientists say many detections are most likely error, with one high-profile study called a ‘joke’

Scientists from the Department of Geography and Environmental Science at Queen Mary University of London have developed a simple model to show how buoyant plastic can settle through the water column and they predict it could take over 100 years to remove plastic waste from the ocean's surface.

Plastic pollution in the ocean is a global environmental issue, with buoyant debris accumulating at the surface and posing long-term ecological threats. Although sediments are the ultimate sink for pl...

Some plastic pollution lingers at the ocean’s surface for more than a century.

Exclusive: Rising flood risks driven by climate change could release toxic waste from ageing sites – posing threats to ecosystems

Exclusive: Concerns over impact on health and environment, as well as £1.63bn in avoided landfill tax

Growing evidence suggests that timescales for plastic degradation have been vastly underestimated. The fossil record of plastic-like biopolymers might provide a perspective on plastic fossilization in...

Findings help decipher mechanisms through which ‘forever chemicals’ cause disease, aiding in treating health problems

Scientists in Svalbard in race to study polar microbes as global heating threatens fragile glacial ecosystems

NHS England » NHS to fast-track patients with head and neck cancer into cancer vaccine trial

The list of everyday pollutants is a long one, and they could be as damaging to our water ecosystems as sewage spills

Fiona Sheriff introduces the National Festival of Fieldwork and encourages everyone to take part with their students this June!

Waste from old landfill sites is spilling onto beaches as rising seas erode coastlines - and some of it is toxic

Inadequate record keeping means councils do not know whether former waste sites contain toxic substances

Fast fashion and drinks cans among technological-age matter most likely to endure as fossils, say scientists

US government stripping funds from domestic and overseas research amid warnings for health and public safety

Many studies have reported the paradoxical observation of high concentrations of low-density microplastics (plastic particles < 5 mm) in deep-sea sediments despite their buoyancy. The incorporation o....

Many studies have reported the paradoxical observation of high concentrations of low-density microplastics (plastic particles < 5 mm) in deep-sea sediments despite their buoyancy. The incorporation o...

Many studies have reported the paradoxical observation of high concentrations of low-density microplastics (plastic particles < 5 mm) in deep-sea sediments despite their buoyancy. The incorporation o...