Five facilities near schools and houses in L.A. County fumigate produce shipped from overseas with methyl bromide. But the air agency doesn’t plan to monitor the air or take any immediate steps to ...

Just a few decades ago, the sky above Antarctica became a symbol of environmental crisis. Scientists had discovered a massive ...

Fifty-six years ago, a disaster off the coast of Santa Barbara sparked the creation of Earth Day, a movement that continues to ...

The Blue Origin's 11-minute space flight happened on April 14 with an all-female flight crew. There have been reports that ...

The University of Houston-Downtown (UHD) is diving deep—literally and figuratively—into the global plastic crisis with an Earth Month lecture that promises to provoke thought, stir hearts ...

Also new for the simple image-editing app is Photoshop-like layer editing, Background Removal, and Generative Erase. The image generation comes courtesy of Microsoft’s Copilot technology ...

When NASA launched the Nimbus-4 satellite 50 years ago, nobody knew the ozone layer over Antarctica was thinning ... space-based instrument to measure the total amount of ozone in the Earth’s ...

Scientists have discovered a new phylum of microbes in the Earth’s Critical Zone, deep soil layers that help purify groundwater. As water filters through this zone, these microbes break down leftover ...

School of Chemistry and Physics, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Queensland 4001, Australia Central Analytical Research Facility, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, ...

Humankind will soon lose a great deal of vigilance over the ozone layer, which shields life on Earth from harmful solar radiation. The impending loss of NASA’s Aura and the Canadian Space Agency ...

See All Key Ideas Kilometers above the Earth’s surface, the ozone layer protects humanity and all life from the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays. But in the troposphere, at ground level ...