In the air, on land and in the sea, the Smithsonian is building new tools for resilient ecosystems—innovative approaches and technologies that will provide knowledge and open up avenues to understand ...

Sediment cores from the Aegean Sea reveal that human-driven lead contamination began 5,200 years ago—much earlier than expected. This pollution is tied to shifts in economy and land use, culminating ...

Scientists confirm that orcas and dolphins have lost the ability to return to dry land due to irreversible evolutionary ...

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct ... This means more toxic air pollution and plastic in our oceans. We need urgent ...

More than 80 percent of marine pollution comes from land-based activities. From coral bleaching to sea level rise, entire marine ecosystems are rapidly changing. Global warming is causing ...

The Roman Empire's pervasive influence once reached across land, sea, and even sky. During the golden age of Roman imperialism, air pollution grew so inescapable that researchers now suspect it ...

Pollutants are chemicals and substances that are harmful to our health or the natural environment, causing damage to the land, air or water. Outdoor air pollution in urban areas tends to be caused ...

Climate change-intensified extreme events last year included the formation of vast heat domes — areas of high pressure that stalled and persisted above continental land masses in Asia ...

The launch of these two products signifies RICTOR's significant step towards a comprehensive air, land, and sea mobility strategy, introducing a new vision of "Future Mobility Beyond the Ground ...