Black mambas (Dendroaspis polylepis) are Africa's longest, most famous venomous snakes. Despite their fearsome reputation, ...

The Muscatine session will be one of four listening sessions held in Iowa, all in cities near active coal utility sites.

The heavy metal mercury exists in different forms, which include elemental mercury vapor that forms when fossil fuels and ...

Ocean oxygen loss, not just mercury pollution, can trigger toxic methylmercury blooms that threaten marine life and seafood ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will finalize on Wednesday its overhaul of how it measures the costs and benefits of proposed new curbs on pollution, a move that is likely to sap the agency’s ...

The U.S. air pollution monitoring network has fallen into disrepair after years of budget cuts and neglect, leaving tens of millions of Americans vulnerable to undetected bad air quality from events ...

A recent survey of environmental toxicologists has revealed that they believe that chemical pollution can and is affecting ...

Climate-driven oxygen loss in the Black Sea thousands of years ago triggered the expansion of microorganisms capable of ...

EPA will not delay rules that will require U.S. Steel's Clairton coke plant to monitor for benzene, a known carcinogen, at the plant's fence line.

The Department of Data went looking for geographic patterns in poverty, and stumbled upon a surprising culprit.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — As gold prices hover at record highs, a leading Catholic leader in Peru’s Amazon is urging countries ...

Fears Amazon is in ‘delicate situation’ over rising mercury pollution - One figure stressed that health risks are ...