Colombian energy giant Ecopetrol has polluted hundreds of sites with oil, including water sources and biodiverse wetlands, ...

Reducing the amount of agricultural sprays used by farmers—including fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides—could cut down ...

MIT engineers have developed a new spray coating that makes pesticides stick better to leaves, reducing environmental ...

This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center. It is part three in a four-part series. Read part one here ...

Here, we answer key questions about how the UK responds to pollution ... which involves spraying a specially formulated dispersant from modified aircraft or boats. This chemical aims to speed up the ...

"It used to take human analysts weeks if not months to be able to detect a single (small-scale) oil pollution incident," explained Mitchelle De Leon of US-based NGO SkyTruth. The group harnesses ...

Frequently those wells are as little as a few hundred yards from oil and gas wells or other infrastructure linked with toxic pollution — which are just one explosion or spill away from ruining them.

But new technologies are helping to change that, revealing hidden oil spills, speeding up the discovery of new species and uncovering how light pollution impacts marine life. Uncovering hidden oil ...