This measure, developed by MIT researchers, reflects direct effects on people’s quality of life — and reveals significant global disparities.

Female mosquitoes don’t want to lay their eggs alone, but they don’t want sites that are too crowded either. Understanding what guides their choice could inform new control strategies.

The technology could offer a cheap, fast way to test for PFAS, which have been linked to cancer and other health problems.

Many incentive programs promote e-bike use, but they aren’t necessarily targeting the right people for the right reasons.

Pressure to ‘publish or perish’ and get results out as quickly as possible has led to weak study designs and shortened peer-review processes.

Reducing particle pollution can save thousands of lives, but states need more data to inform better controls. An atmospheric scientist explains what data and actions are needed.

As many as one in five Canadian households can be considered to be in energy poverty. That may be more than face food insecurity.

School uniform policies could be restricting young people from being active, particularly primary school-aged girls, new research suggests.

Scientists quantify a previously overlooked driver of human-related mercury emissions.

Researchers have developed a sensor made from ‘frozen smoke’ that uses artificial intelligence techniques to detect formaldehyde in real time at concentrations