Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...

Decades of industrialisation have polluted the waters of Italy's Mar Piccolo and brought mussel farming to its knees. Can ...

Canada Gairdner Awards recognize the world’s most accomplished researchers whose work is improving our understanding of human ...

His office is in a modern, airy two-story building with new computers and a natural gas heating system, paid for, he told me, by tax revenues from oil ... is water where there was once ice.” ...

The Tijuana River has been plagued with raw sewage and industrial waste from Tijuana for decades, fouling beaches along the U ...

When you're on a sandy beach or the banks of a river, transformed by rolling waves or slightly still waters, it's likely ...

The water industry has failed to hit its pollution reduction targets and recorded 2,489 spills in 2024 – more than double the target set by the Environment Agency. In one instance, Suzi ...

State legislature needs to pass legislation to increase funding, and oil and gas companies need to participate in remediation ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — A suspected “oil spill” is polluting a pond and endangering wildlife in a green space near Tottenville ...

A new study confirms what residents in Louisiana oil towns have long suspected: They get all the pollution but very few of the jobs.

The study is the first comprehensive examination of the impacts of ocean pollution on human health. It was published in the online edition of the Annals of Global Health and released at the Monaco ...