Rivers have long played a key role in the planet’s carbon cycle. They move and release gases like carbon dioxide (CO₂) and ...

The plant life bordering rivers and streams has undergone numerous transitions over the past two centuries and aquatic corridors are some of the last remaining seed bases of native flora.

In rivers and streams, dense stands of aquatic plants narrow the cross-sectional area of flow and induce turbulence around stems and leaves, slowing river flow. As a result, dense stands of plants ...

There have been some efforts, like plant filtering and reduced fertilizer use, to lower how much nitrogen and phosphorus is washing into our rivers and streams. - But this report shows there has ...

these dirty-burning power plants will now be able to dump wastewater containing dangerous pollutants like lead, selenium, and arsenic into rivers, streams, and other waterways. The change will ...

LOUIS — The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted ... toughening regulations on meat and poultry processing plants to reduce pollution, Wall said. When nutrient pollution ...

The effluent from wastewater treatment plants appears clean and clear ... native aquatic ecosystems when dumped into streams and rivers. “Unfortunately, society at large has no idea,” said ...

transported to wastewater treatment plants around the state, and discharged into rivers and streams. “It is clear from the 25 landfills sampled that significant concentrations of PFAS are ...

Several of the rivers and streams the USGS studied contained PFAS above the EPA ... as well as PFAS levels in municipal water treatment plant discharges into waterways. Get daily updates from WHYY ...

A bill in the Legislature would protect the last 21 pristine watersheds in Texas. But for years, previous attempts have been defeated by powerful homebuilders.