water pollution

After first thought to be made of oil from a spill, the mysterious 'tar balls' which washed up on Sydney’s beaches in mid-October were actually something worse.

The Chinese Communist Party has been enacting policies that seem to suggest that China is facing a food ...

Commentary On May Day, 2024, the California State Water Control Board (SWCB) voted to declare hexavalent chromium a ...

Commentary It takes multiple environmental agencies with totalitarian powers to regulate air, water, chemistry, nature, and freedom in ...

The Russian River County Sanitation District Treatment Plant experienced a spill of secondary treated wastewater.

SAN DIEGO—Local and state elected officials Oct. 26 continued to thank President Biden and others for $310 million ...

Southwestern Ontario and Quebec have some of the poorest-quality river water in Canada, according to Environment Canada. A ...

A study of public water systems serving 290 million people in the United States per year has found ...

Chinese manufacturers produce over 200,000 tons of antibiotics each year for use by the pharmaceutical, healthcare, agriculture, and ...

The House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure’s Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment held a hearing on per- ...

A Chinese water bottling plant being built in Russia is drawing protests from locals who fear its harmful ...

The U.S.-China trade war has compounded a food shortage already in the making inside China, due to water ...

The longest-running litigation in the country's history is finally over.

Hundreds of students have fallen severely ill in a school that was built in a highly toxic environment, ...

The horrible, preventable crisis in Flint, Michigan shows that when the government shortchanges our infrastructure, people pay the ...

Many regions of the United States are struggling with water shortages. Large areas of the West are contending ...

NEW YORK—The waterways surrounding New York City are a soup of plastic, ranging from discarded takeout containers down ...

The rule had stayed dormant for nearly 30 years until environmental groups sued the EPA in 2010.

RIO DE JANEIRO—Thirteen rowers on the 40-member U.S. team came down with stomach illness at the World Junior ...

A strain of bacteria that “breathes” uranium may be key to cleaning up polluted groundwater at sites where ...

This year, global bottled water consumption is expected to overtake carbonated beverages. Why is bottled water so popular ...

A new study assesses water quality near industrial sites permitted to release BPA into the air.

Los Angeles has plans to be rid of their infamous smog by 2050.

A community in south-central China's Hunan Province has become known as the "widow village," because of the large ...

Residents in eastern China woke up earlier this week to find the river that runs through their city had turned blood ...

Dead pigs floating in the rivers, high levels of heavy metals, garbage, and untreated animal and human waster ...

When I was about eight or nine years old, my family took a trip to the Indiana Dunes ...