A new study highlights a surprising lens for tracking pollution trends over centuries: preserved plants and animals housed at natural history museums around the world. According to Shane DuBay, a ...

Think today's latest chemical scare accounts for the onslaught of children’s diseases? Think again. America has been swimming in synthetic soup since long before Earth Day was born in 1970 (think DDT, ...

(Blacksburg, Va.) -- In the early 1900s, there were 42 species of freshwater mussels in the North Fork of the Holston River in Southwest Virginia. There were 33 downstream of Saltville. Now there are ...