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 ...

The USGS collects water samples from the river once a month ... roughly 25 percent of the pollution. Urban runoff contributes sediments from construction sites, oil and chemicals from vehicles ...

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

No one can claim to be ‘making American healthier’ while simultaneously increasing the toxins in our air, food and water. Once ... human health and safety in order to give free rein to the oil ...

Just as the 20th century was defined by the geography of oil ... polluted the air with toxic cobalt dust, and dumped poisonous tailings into rivers and streams. The mines rely extensively on human ...

If the wells weren't properly plugged, they can potentially leak oil and chemicals into nearby water ... maps also used consistent symbols for oil and gas wells: a hollow black circle. "For a ...

In the process, they’re also raising challenging questions about how far we’ll need to stretch human ingenuity to meet the challenge ... these dissolved minerals can be extracted directly from the ...

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.” ...

Yet this headline-grabbing body of water holds a dark secret – it harbours the world’s second-largest marine dead zone, an ...