In the air, on land and in the sea, the Smithsonian is building new tools for resilient ecosystems—innovative approaches and technologies that will provide knowledge and open up avenues to understand ...

But this brine isn’t just coming from the ocean: New research shows freshwater ecosystems are facing widespread dual threats of salt contamination from the sea and land, made worse by climate ...

In densely populated coastal areas, reactions of polluted air with sea salt aerosol ... combination of concentrated pollution from the ship's exhaust and sea spray particles.

At current rates plastic is expected to outweigh all the fish in the sea by 2050. Plastics pollution has a direct ... This means more toxic air pollution and plastic in our oceans. We need urgent ...

More than 80 percent of marine pollution comes from land-based activities. From coral bleaching to sea level rise, entire marine ecosystems are rapidly changing. Global warming is causing ...

The Roman Empire's pervasive influence once reached across land, sea, and even sky. During the golden age of Roman imperialism, air pollution grew so inescapable that researchers now suspect it ...

An influx of salt from both land and sea and a warming world are condemning ... that the effects of climate change, land-based salt pollution and briny ocean water can interact in complex ways ...

But alongside their art, philosophy, and conquests, these early sea-faring societies left behind something else — traces of heavy metal pollution in the very sediment of the land and sea they ...

But this brine isn’t just coming from the ocean: New research shows freshwater ecosystems are facing widespread dual threats of salt contamination from the sea and land, made worse by climate ...

A sharp reduction in the amount of sulfur pollution emitted by ships has reduced ... lanes in the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. Chris Wright at the University of Washington in Seattle ...