Moreover, microplastics can absorb heavy metals such as nickel, cadmium, lead, copper, and titanium onto their surfaces, increasing the risk of cancer in the human body.

Our rivers, lakes and streams shape our familiar and loved landscapes, provide our drinking water and our recreation. But they are not in the state we expect them to be. Decades of underinvestment in ...

Elevated levels of organic pollution means there was a high nutrient load entering the river – this could be caused by runoff containing sewage, fertilisers, decaying plant matter or other waste – ...

River deltas are among the most complex and productive environments on Earth. Yet, they face serious threats from upstream ...

A massive algae bloom stretches for miles in the Caloosahatchee with experts IDing a strain linked to grave illness. Drought, pollution likely to blame.

Although phosphorus and nitrogen river loads, the main cause for its eutrophication, have been significantly reduced, adverse effects such as algal blooms and oxygen depletion still massively occur, ...

Oklahoma oil companies left behind tens of thousands of unplugged wells that belch greenhouse gases and allow industrial ...

An Indonesian researcher has warned that pollution in the Cisadane River, following a chemical spill could pose long-term ...

Water Gremlin Inc., which manufactured fishing products and battery terminals, filed for bankruptcy in 2023 and is no longer ...

Climate change is making people sicker and more vulnerable to disease, doctors and scientists explain. Erasing the federal ...

Melting mega-piles of grimy road snow can release weeks worth of salt, oils (and dog poop) in what one scientist called a ...