Pollution

The U.S.’s first plastic pollution plan features better measuring standards, more responsibility for producers and an end to single-use products

Tanager-1 is the first in a series of satellites that aim to pinpoint major emitters of carbon dioxide and methane, major greenhouse gases

New shipping regulations set limits on sulfur in maritime fuel, reducing harmful pollution but inadvertently ceasing a cooling effect on Earth’s climate

Congress appears interested in passing mining legislation. But bills that would expand access to hard-rock minerals across the U.S. ignore supply chain standards and environmental consequences

An interview with Rob Jackson about ending climate colonialism, inspiring polluter-pay policies and taking a path to a cleaner climate

A play celebrates the agreement that opened nations worldwide to accepting the science of climate change

An ambitious U.S. government program is working to detect and track millions of tiny space junk pieces—down to the size of a sand grain—throughout low-Earth orbit and beyond

The EPA plans to propose a rule in 2025 that will tackle methane emissions from landfills, one of the country's largest sources of the greenhouse gas

Four recent Supreme Court decisions will together make it much harder for the federal government to take action on climate change

Pollution from skyrocketing numbers of satellites burning up in Earth’s atmosphere could threaten our planet’s protective ozone layer

The simplicity of the recycling symbol belies its complicated role in corporate America’s quest to sell ever more plastic

Massive blobs of sargassum seaweed are taking over Caribbean beaches. The seaweed explosion is fueled by pollution washing into the ocean from rivers in the Americas and Africa