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Coronavirus March 2, 2020

Coronavirus outbreak in China has one unexpected side-effect

In an effort to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus, which has affected more than 80,000 and killed more than 3,000 people in China, the country shuttered factories and quarantined many of its citizens. However, as the country's factories slowly return online from the aftermath, there has been one unexpected side effect to the decline in economic activity. Pollution has vanished.

Ó£ÌÒÊÓƵ Flash February 28, 2020

Heritage Foundation researcher: Green New Deal 'would devastate the economy,' hit working families hardest

Democrats' proposed Green New Deal (GND) could end up costing households much more than they bargained for, Heritage Foundation Research Fellow Joel Griffith said Friday. 

Pollution February 26, 2020

Squirrels are now using plastic to build nests, shocking photos show

A photographer has taken startling pictures of a squirrel appearing to use plastic bags in an effort to build a nest.

Oceans February 20, 2020

Climate change and pollution could eliminate nearly all coral reefs by end of century

Coral reefs around the world are dying and scientists are looking at a variety of ways to save these endangered structures, including growing them in labs and trying to make them pollution-resistant.

Florida February 17, 2020

Fort Lauderdale mayor seeks state, federal aid after 211M gallons of sewage leaks from pipes into streets, drinking water

More than 211.6 million gallons of toxic sewage – enough to fill 320 Olympic-sized swimming pools -- spilled into Fort Lauderdale’s waterways over the past three months due to breaks in the city’s aging pipe system, according to a report Monday.

SCIENCE February 12, 2020

'Invisible oil’ discovery shows BP Deepwater Horizon spill was larger than previously thought

Toxic and invisible oil spread well beyond the initial footprint of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, new research reveals.

SCIENCE February 6, 2020

Chernobyl shocker as fungi that eats radiation found inside nuclear reactor

A type of black fungi that eats radiation was discovered inside the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.

Pollution February 4, 2020

US nuclear waste storage containers could corrode, new study warns

The containers being used by the United States government to store dangerous nuclear waste far underground could be vulnerable to damage, researchers report.

Pollution January 28, 2020

Rescued green turtle poops out wide range of human trash

Garbage in, garbage out -- as the old saying goes -- also seems to apply to a rescued green turtle.

Pollution January 22, 2020

Pollution in New York linked to wildfires hundreds of miles away

Air pollutants from fires as far away as Canada and the southeastern U.S. have traveled hundreds of miles to spike pollution concentrations in New York City and Connecticut.

Digging History December 10, 2019

'Nuclear battlefield' revealed as scientists map Bikini Atoll test craters and sunken warships

For the first time, scientists have conducted extensive mapping of the seafloor at Bikini Atoll, the remote Pacific Ocean testing site for atomic bombs between 1946 and 1954.