Scent is essential to ant society: every ant within a colony wears the badge of membership in the form of smelly hydrocarbons ...

Noise pollution is affecting bird behavior across the globe, disrupting everything from courtship songs to the ability to find food and avoid predators, a large-scale new analysis showed on Wednesday.

Although plastic particles in the air are increasingly coming into focus, knowledge about their distribution and effects is still limited. Chemical analyses from Leipzig now provide details from ...

Noise pollution is affecting bird behaviour across the globe, disrupting everything from courtship songs to the ability to find food and avoid predators, a large-scale new analysis showed on Wednesday ...

Ozone and particulate matter air pollutants cause over 100,000 premature deaths per year and affect the health of millions of ...

E-waste found contaminating dolphin brains: ‘This is a wake-up call’ - Toxic chemicals in dolphins and porpoises seem to originate mostly from television and computer screens ...

While lawmakers focus on power and water demands, round-the-clock industrial lighting from massive facilities threatens both ...

Even more surprisingly, plants themselves can produce sound waves. Recent studies have shown that stressed plants, such as those that are thirsty or injured, emit tiny clicking or popping sounds at ...

Climate change is having a profound impact on the Arctic. We know that the region is warming significantly faster than the ...