Urban residents are also more likely to perceive environmental problems in their communities than those in suburban or rural areas. Among all U.S. adults, 59% say their local community has a big or ...

The global campaign to gain control of plastic waste is one of the fastest-growing environmental causes ... And, though the parallels between the problem of plastic waste and climate change ...

Contrails—those lines of wispy white clouds that follow some jets—may not be so harmless. Airlines and scientists are coming to a consensus that the water vapor trails created by airplanes at ...

The environmental impacts are still uncertain ... Scientists don’t yet know how serious the problem is likely to be in the coming decades. The ash from the reentries contains ozone-damaging ...