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A solid majority of Americans recognize the need to help the environment, although there are some things — like buying a hybrid car or taking mass transit — that people often talk about, but don't necessarily act on.

Smaller than a virus and used in more than 200 consumer products, silver nanoparticles can kill and mutate fish embryos, new research shows. Tiny particles of silver – potent anti-microbial agents that ...

This image shows the process by which Photosystem I in thermophilic blue-green algae can be catalyzed by platinum to produce a sustainable source of hydrogen. The system was highlighted in a paper by University of Tennessee, Knoxville research Barry Bruce, et al. ...

The beetle is one of hundreds of what scientists call invasive species – animals, plants and organisms that “arrive, survive and thrive” in previously inhospitable territory and damage their host environment.

Researchers at a local non-profit say hormone-disrupting chemicals are seeping into the Potomac River and creating a "toxic stew" for fish and other wildlife.

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The National Lake Fish Tissue Study is the first national assessment of freshwater fish contamination in the United States for which sampling sites were

Mussel combat plans develop

Kate Bowditch, a Charles River Watershed Association official who helped develop phosphorus-runoff limits, checks the river’s shoreline in Newton. (Jonathan Wiggs/Globe Staff)

Lloyd G. Carter just published this provocative article in the Golden Gate University Environmental Law Journal. Here are the first few pargraphs of Reaping Riches in a Wretched Region: Subsidized Industrial Farming and Its Link to Perpetual Poverty: In the...

The USGS report is available online.