Chemicals used in refrigeration break down in the atmosphere to produce trifluoroacetic acid, a persistent pollutant that could be harmful to humans and aquatic life ...

The relative size of a water droplet determines the kinetic processes that occur when ozone is taken up at the air-water ...

A research team from the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Ecology has shown in a new study that ants returning from habitats affected by air pollution are attacked when they re-enter the colony. The ...

Concentrations of a forever chemical known as TFA is increasing in rainwater, drinking water, soil and plants.

Local pollution cuts haven’t lowered ozone because transported pollution and global emissions now dominate exposure.

The language is dry and academic, as is appropriate for the abstract of a scientific paper in the prestigious journal Nature. The research described in the short paper, however, fell like a scientific ...

Researchers at Brookhaven National Laboratory, the University of Pittsburgh, and Drexel University in Philadelphia are looking for a more sustainable way to disinfect water. They are studying how ...

The ozone hole over Antarctica is the seventh smallest it’s been since the early 1990s. Recovery began with the Montreal Protocol, which ended the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) in 1987.

Ozone that protects us from the sun's harmful UV rays, when in an indoor space, reacts with oils present on skin, wall paint, ...

DENVER — Memorial Day weekend is the kickoff to pool season on the Colorado Front Range, but it’s also the start of ozone pollution season and according to the American Lung Association, Denver’s air ...