Around 7 a.m., on January 10, when I went on a stroll at the park at Indira Nagar Fourth Cross Street, I saw carcasses of two ...

In the Arctic, pollutants banned from the U.S. in 1979 but still floating around the environment seem to be affecting the strength of polar bear penile bones, possibly compromising the ability of the ...

Millions of bio-beads have washed up on the East Sussex coast Credit: Strandliners Southern Water has taken responsibility after millions of plastic pellets, known as bio-beads, washed up on beaches ...

Global biogeochemical cycling of trace elements is under influences of anthropogenic inputs and climate change, and their trophic transfers within natural food webs are not yet fully characterized.

Mercury (Hg), a naturally occurring trace element, is released into the atmosphere through various human activities, contributing to widespread contamination of air, water, and soil. The release of Hg ...

A new study has uncovered alarming evidence that bisphenols (BPs) —plastic-related chemicals known to disrupt hormones—are accumulating and magnifying through Arctic food webs. Analyzing 32 bisphenol ...

A new study from the Palk Bay–Gulf of Mannar region in Tamil Nadu documents the first evidence of heavy metal bioaccumulation in Indian dugongs, recording heavy metal presence in heart, lung, and skin ...

Thirty-two species of commercially important fish from three trophic levels and nine trophic categories were sampled at a floodplain lake of the Solimões River (Lago Grande de Manacapuru). The fish ...

In the 90s, when Delhi-based brothers Nadeem and Mohammad Saud were in their late teens, they came across an injured kite. The bird was entangled in a manjha, and lay on the side of the road. This was ...

This research project aimed to understand the causes behind differences in mercury in trout and other organisms in the Bay of Plenty/Te Arawa lakes—in particular what features of each lake explain why ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Methylmercury is greatly bioconcentrated and biomagnified in marine plankton ecosystems, and these communities form the basis of marine food webs. Therefore, the evaluation of the potential exposure ...