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 ...

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences has found that pollutants in the atmosphere can ...

Ants send messages to colony members through odor compounds that contain alkenes, chemicals that help nestmates recognize one another, which can be degraded by ozone. And past research suggests that ...

Lucy Hart receives funding from Natural Environment Research Council ECORISC CDT. Ryan Hossaini receives funding from the Natural Environment Research Council When the phaseout of ozone-destroying ...

Plastic waste has quietly reshaped the oceans you depend on, and a new global study from Tulane University shows the danger runs deeper than floating bottles and bags. Scientists have now mapped ...

Pollinators use flowers’ airborne aroma molecules to navigate to nectar from great distances. Human-made air pollution degrades flower chemicals and hides plant scents, interfering with the ability of ...

CHAPEL HILL — On behalf of Cape Fear River Watch and Haw River Assembly, the Southern Environmental Law Center recently filed a lawsuit in federal court against the city of Asheboro and PET plastics ...

(MENAFN- The Conversation) When the phaseout of ozone-destroying chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) was first agreed in 1987, the world narrowly avoided an environmental catastrophe. However, the replacement ...