In 2017, a new global treaty was meant to bring mercury pollution under control. But three decades of data from UK harbor porpoises show mercury is still increasing, and is linked to a higher risk of ...

Our findings highlight that mercury ins’t just a historical problem. It is a current, growing pressure on marine mammals that ...

An international team including astronomers from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) and the National Center of Competence in ...

Enceladus is Saturn's sixth-largest moon, a 500 km-wide icy world famed for its south polar geysers spewing water from a ...

Oak Ridge Office of Environmental Management Manager Erik Olds hopes to convince the EPA to delist Oak Ridge as a Superfund ...

Theia, the world that helped form the Moon, came from the Solar System. Chemical clues in Earth and Moon rocks reveal this ...

Experts estimate that genetic mutations account for only about 10% of diseases like Parkinson’s for example. The remaining 90 ...

A large-scale Brazilian study found dangerous levels of toxic metals in popular children’s toys, with barium and lead topping the list. Researchers used sophisticated lab methods to identify 21 ...

Sources have requested pseudonyms be used to protect their identity out of fear of retaliation from the government or mining ...

About 4.5 billion years ago, Earth had a violent neighbor. A young, still-forming planet named Theia slammed into our world with enough force to melt vast portions of its mantle and scatter a huge ...