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President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Marine Laboratory Director Andrew J. Read to serve on the U.S. Marine Mammal Commission.

“Every time you lose a foot of peat, there are just so many emissions associated with that," says one federal official. But the long-running restoration efforts need private partners in order to scale up.

ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ scientists are using a new method of tracking exposure to PFAS chemicals: silicon wristbands. It may help them figure out which chemicals workers are exposed to on the job.

A shift in priority and approach to wetland restoration could reduce atmospheric carbon.

Recent research shows that levels of Methane gas in the atmosphere are rising rapidly. It is over 80 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide so poses a major threat to the world’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5 C.

Five years have passed since we first learned that the lower Cape Fear River, the drinking water source for more than 300,000 people, was being contaminated by GenX and a host of other man-made chemical compounds called PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. North Carolina-based researchers have worked diligently to find some answers to these questions these past five years.

While the war in Ukraine disrupts lives immediately and violently, damage is also happening to the soil, air and water that make up the places Ukrainians call home.

ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ has launched research into what cancer-causing chemicals Durham firefighters are exposed to — both on and off duty. The pilot study had 20 firefighters wear silicone wristbands for a week.

The proliferation of pits and ponds created in recent years by miners digging for small deposits of alluvial gold in Peru’s Amazon has dramatically altered the landscape and increased the risk of mercury exposure for indigenous communities and wildlife, a new study shows.

The landward movement of seawater threatens drinking water supplies, coastal farming and coastal ecosystems.