In this episode of Weekly podcast, we speak to three experts who study different ways that people are affecting how plants and animals evolve – and how humanity has become the single biggest driver of ...

Scientists from the Institute of Applied Ecology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have identified a strain of bacteria that ...

The bacteria survive in estuaries by producing ectoine, which helps them tolerate high salt concentrations. This discovery could lead to new bioremediation technologies for cleaning up polluted marine ...

New data and maps released last month by the Navy as part of the cleanup process of the former Grumman site in Calverton show groundwater contaminated by PFAS is migrating off-site towards the ...

About 40km of West Coast beaches have been polluted by an oil slick which also threatens sea bird colonies and the Oilfant's ...

An oil slick first spotted over a week ago has spread to pollute around 40 kilometres of West Coast beaches, now threatening ...