Tiny particles of plastic are in our food, water and even the air we breathe. There is insufficient evidence to establish the impact of microplastics on human health. But the absence of evidence doesn't mean they are harmless.
Researchers say their findings represent some of the first evidence that evolutionary changes are affecting the time of year that wild animals give birth.
Janet Clayton has studied freshwater mussels for 30 years. Now she's passing along her knowledge -- and raising alarms -- about these endangered animals.
Workers bustle through the maze of passageways inside the German icebreaker RV Polarstern, preparations for a yearlong voyage that organizers say is unprecedented in scale and ambition.
"If we want to know what we are doing to ourselves as well as the rest of life on Earth, we must engage in long term ecological research," conservation biologist Thomas Lovejoy says.
The failure to ban asbestos has resulted in widespread and potentially deadly chronic risks that reach down to our youngest citizens and their teachers.
Coal, oil and gas have given communities across the U.S. both steady paychecks and devastating pollution. It's time to make health a priority in meeting our energy demands.
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