Ottawa County high schoolers collect data on road salt pollution while gaining environmental science experience.

Egan is the author of “The Death and Life of the Great Lakes” and “The Devil’s Element.” His latter work addresses phosphorus ...

As you navigate daily life, you may not always notice the subtle signs that indicate our planet is teetering on the brink of ...

A river filled with sewage, broken TVs, dead dogs and used needles or a clean, bird-luring oasis lined with indigenous plants ...

Rain lashed down in the northern Thai village of Nong Krating as Sawattiphon Wongkasettakon described the worsening air ...

A team of scientists has uncovered a hidden risk to freshwater quality that could affect millions worldwide: the shift of ...

Scrolling through this Tampa Bay Times report on Florida's water quality, photos of algae-choked springs were sadly familiar. As much as I adore our freshwater marvels, the slime-coated limestone and ...

One of America's most contaminated rivers faces decades of industrial waste, toxic runoff, and growing threats to human and ...

District Collector Snehil Kumar Singh has directed the Kerala State Pollution Control Board (PCB) and the Suchitwa Mission to carry out a detailed field-level study at the Ambayathode-based ...

Some 170 trillion pieces of plastic are floating on the planet’s oceans — and scientists revealed for the first time that it could take more than century for them sink or disappear, even if we stopped ...

Freshwater ecosystems represent less than 0.5% of the Earth’s surface, and less than 0.01% of its water volume but support astonishing levels of ...

In the Sundarbans, bacteria inside freshwater sponges can help monitor toxic element pollution 1, making the sponge–bacteria duo a living biosensor, capable of revealing real-time water quality in an ...