Kitchen sponges are considered a potential, yet largely understudied, source of microplastics in households. A study in Environmental Advances investigated how many microplastic particles are released ...

JONESBOROUGH, Tenn. (WJHL) — How risky scientists say BWX Technology’s (BWXT) proposed high-purity depleted uranium (HPDU) facility is to the surrounding land, water, and air, and to the people living ...

A new congressionally mandated report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine examines the potential environmental, social, and economic effects that could unfold over the ...

From data centers to AI to 5G internet, how we use the internet has a much bigger effect on our Earth than we might imagine. Cierra was an associate writer for CNET's broadband team, covering all ...

While artificial intelligence (AI) may solve certain sustainability issues in the future, the technology’s environmental footprint is already a topic of much discussion today. To help society bridge ...

Adushkin, Vitaly V, and Alexander Spivak. 2015. Underground Explosions. Washington, DC. https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/tr/pdf/ADA627744.pdf Allen, R. T., and R. E. Duff ...

The United States and Israel's war against Iran is creating a public health and environmental crisis, as attacked oil depots spew toxins.

Opacity in A.I. infrastructure and narrow measurement tools are widening the gap between corporate climate commitments and environmental reality. Courtesy Microsoft As A.I. adoption accelerates, ...

KINGSTON, N.Y. — A coalition of environmental groups said that Gov. Kathy Hochul’s proposal to reform the State Environmental Quality Review Act to accelerate some housing developments fails to ...

At the outset of the Cold War era, the United States and the Soviet Union rapidly built up large nuclear arsenals as part of the prevailing doctrine of deterrence, under which each nation attempted to ...