Fine dust from the burning rain forest could exacerbate coronavirus infections amid signs that the blazes might be particularly severe in 2020 -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Air pollution disproportionately impacts minority communities and proposed changes would stymie efforts to address the disparity -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
An ice-core analysis reveals the chemicals that replaced ozone-depleting substances are leading to an increase of nondegradable compounds in the environment -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
New research helps unravel how vast amounts of plastic particles travel—both regionally and globally—on the wind -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Tree rings, ice cores and sediment deposits could record changes in pollution during the global shutdown -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The pandemic lockdowns are providing a window into how a wariness of humans uniquely shapes other species’ behavior -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The decline shows how far there is to go to curtail greenhouse gases over the long term -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The decline shows how far there is to go to curtail greenhouse gases over the long term -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The pests that have been laying waste to crops across Africa follow the winds, just like smoke -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
The ways governments choose to bolster foundering economies could impact greenhouse gas emissions -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Events with extreme temperatures and humidity are occurring twice as often now as they were 40 years ago -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Safeguarding public health requires rethinking our relationship to the environment and the inequities that drive its destruction -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
Destroying habitats makes viruses and other pathogens more likely to infect humans -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com