Nanoplastics—particles smaller than a human hair—can pass through cell walls and enter the food web. New research suggest 27 ...

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

The combined effects of climate change and air pollution have led to direct declines in precipitation in the U.S. Southwest, ...

Artificial lakes, like reservoirs, face the biggest risks. They are often shallow and lack strong groundwater connections.

The water in the river, which had turned dark blue on June 18, has since been cleaned up by the suspected companies.

Here are the top countries with the cleanest drinking water in the world: · Finland · Iceland · Netherlands · Norway · ...

Researchers found that most fish sampled from Ghana’s Keta Lagoon had arsenic and mercury levels exceeding World Health ...

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Understanding whether lakes are fed predominantly by groundwater or rainwater is critical to managing our water resources in the face of droughts and shortages, new research has found.

Drinking water treatment that pursues a multi-contaminant approach, tackling several pollutants at once, could prevent more than 50,000 lifetime cancer cases in the U.S., finds a new peer-reviewed ...

An analysis of 500 watersheds found levels of organic carbon, phosphorus, and other pollutants up to 103 times higher after a ...

The report caps a two-year-long research review by a team of 16 scientists that focused on pollution patterns in two ...