Invasive caiman may pose new challenges for Everglades restoration

With World Oceans Day coming up on June 8, policymakers and researchers will be thinking about the state of the ocean and efforts to protect marine environments.

For decades, the United States made steady progress in reducing surface ozone pollution, the main ingredient in smog. But that progress—made as vehicles, industries, and power sources became cleaner—is increasingly being overshadowed by a different and growing source of ozone pollution: wildfires.

Researchers from Imperial College London have conducted the U.K.'s largest-ever longitudinal study of indoor fungal air pollution, revealing that homes are active fungal ecosystems rather than passive recipients of outdoor air. The West London Healthy Home and Environment Study (WellHome), led by researchers from Imperial's School of Public Health, analyzed the air in 118 households over a two-year period. The study focuses on children with asthma or allergies and families from ethnic minority g