Nitrate pollution, a pervasive consequence of agricultural runoff and urban effluents, has emerged as a significant threat to aquatic ecosystems worldwide. Elevated nitrate levels have been implicated ...

A new study highlights how a combination of environmental stressors -- namely plastic pollution and seawater flooding -- can increase the threats faced by plants in some of the planet's critical ...

Dangerous concentrations of algae such as "red tides" have been consistently emerging in locations around the world. A region ...

This review covers selected 2012 articles on the biological effects of pollutants and human physical disturbances on marine and estuarine plants, animals, ecosystems and habitats. The review, based ...

Plastic pollution may be quietly fueling algal blooms by knocking out the grazers that usually keep algae under control.

Plastic waste is no longer just an eyesore floating on the surface of rivers and seas. A growing body of research now shows that it is reshaping the chemistry and biology of water itself, creating ...

Ocean pollution is quietly draining energy from seabirds’ cells, as mercury and forever chemicals disrupt mitochondria even ...

In the summers of 2018 and 2019, ecologist James Ryalls and his colleagues would go out to a field near Reading in southern England to stare at the insects buzzing around black mustard plants. Each ...

A new study examined the effect of plastic additives on the reproductive process and larvae development of corals and other organisms commonly found in the coral reef of Eilat. A new study by Tel Aviv ...

A man in glasses looks into a fish tank in which fish of many colors are swimming. Ecotoxicologist Bob Wong studies how fish change when exposed to the antidepressant medication fluoxetine. Credit: ...

Future Cardiol. 2012;8(4):577-602. A recently published meta-analysis of the studies addressing the question of oxidative stress and PM scrutinized the evidence from the controlled exposures, panel ...