New research has shown that, despite global efforts to improve air quality, vast swaths of the world's population are experiencing increased levels of air pollution
Although the activity concentrations were innocuous, they reached up to 100 times the levels of those detected over Europe in the aftermath of the Fukushima accident
Scientists used a series of experiments to assess whether the reefs formed by blue mussels affected their exposure and consumption of tiny microplastic particles
These replacement compounds degrade into products that do not break down in the environment and have instead continually increased in the Arctic since about 1990