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Some of the plastic on Scotland's beaches is disintegrating and becoming part of the bigger global health worry - micro plastics ...

When smog floated above America’s big cities, it caused acid rain. It is sulfuric or nitric acid that falls to the ground ...

Evidence of poison hemlock is widespread in Kentucky. Poison hemlock is toxic to a wide variety of animals including birds, ...

Levels of lead and other heavy metals spiked in L.A.’s coastal waters after the January fires, raising serious concerns for ...

Simulations suggest that water can become a superacid under extremely high heat and pressure conditions. This may also ...

This blog post explores the factors contributing to air pollution and introduces two instruments for continuous ambient air ...

Umair Irfan is a correspondent at Vox writing about climate change, energy policy, and science. He is also a regular contributor to the radio program Science Friday. Prior to Vox, he was a ...

Giant Namibian bullfrogs are a delicacy throughout much of Africa, but aficionados know to wait until after the third rain of spring, when the frogs start croaking and breeding ... bamboo shoots are ...

House Bill 2354, which would ban the sale and manufacture of foods containing certain food dyes or preservatives in West Virginia.

However, omega-6 fat is one of two polyunsaturated fats — the other is the omega-3 alpha-linolenic acid (ALA) — that are “essential” for humans. That means we need them in our diets since ...