A state agency investigating mass fish deaths in Lake Victoria has attributed the crisis to oil spills, decomposing aquatic matter and the discharge of untreated waste into the water.The research was ...

Heavy metals naturally occur in the Earth's crust, but human activities can increase their concentration in the environment, ...

The Plastic Pollution Coalition has filed a complaint against the water brand, stating that lab tests revealed both ...

Polluted runoff is still smothering the Great Barrier Reef, our first national assessment of water quality trends in ...

Without concerted action, pollution threatens to leave the Drin River and its main tributaries “lifeless”, environmentalists ...

A reusable sponge that soaks up pollutants like phosphate and metals from water has been developed by Northwestern University ...

A specialized sponge absorbs pollutants and releases them for reuse—paving the way for cleaner waterways and resource ...

Senate Bill 747 would require farms larger than 200 acres to report their annual fertilizer use — including the quantity ...

As more waterways contend with algae blooms and pollution caused by minerals from agricultural ... and in previous iterations has successfully pulled lead from water, and microplastics and oil from ...

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