The most commonly found piece of trash on beaches isn’t plastic bags or straws. It’s even smaller and contains dozens of dangerous chemicals.

The majority of coal plants in the United States, like the Hunter Power Plant in Utah, are contaminating groundwater with toxic pollutants, a new report reveals.

Experts have recommended how the United States can drastically curb the use of throwaway plastics with new federal legislation. 

Products marketed to kill rodents are instead threatening the lives of the wildlife that eat them as poisons travel up the food chain.

Experts warn that we’ll keep having dangerous floods of feces unless state and the federal governments change the way big producers do business — and unless consumers start eating less meat.

A head-banging new study proves that loud music shakes, rattles and rolls the ecosystem.

Will the infamous EPA administrator get to keep his soundproof phone booth? And will anything change at the EPA itself?

The Blue Marble is turning into a glowing globe – and in many places that’s becoming a problem for human health.

We mapped light pollution from oil and gas fields and found they outshine American cities — and that's bad news for birds.

Chemicals collect in microplastics, which then get eaten by fish, birds and seals — and by humans.