M y most memorable experience with a boil water advisory was when a landslide damaged the main water line to my mountain village, and we were without clean drinking water for more ...

Tapeworms don't evoke warm thoughts in most people, but if you happen to take a close look at them, you'll realize they're ...

Water filters made from untreated wood can remove more than 99 per cent of particles, taking out many harmful bacteria and ...

Food & Water Watch experts explain the dangers of microplastic pollution in our drinking water and our work toward regulations.

"Out of sight, out of mind" is how we often treat what is flushed down our toilets. But the drugs we take, from anxiety ...

Health Officials have updated some of their fish consumption guidelines due to the presence of PFAS in some bodies of water.

BIOCAP tiles reimagine seawalls as dynamic, ecologically active systems that have the potential to enhance coastal resilience ...

For the second spring in a row the city of Kennewick has detected a “forever chemical” in its drinking water that is above the action level set by the Washington state Board of Health.

One particularly nasty strain, S. haematobium, infects over 110 million people around the world. One inside the body, the ...

As temperatures warm up and mosquitoes become more active, puddles and containers full of water provide a place for these insects to lay eggs. Having standing water for even a short amount of time can ...

The industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal, long regarded as a symbol of urban environmental neglect, is being reimagined through ...

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