Water is vital for food security, human health and economic development. But as populations grow and climate change intensifies, pollution is increasing throughout the water cycle. Water pollutants ...

Jesse Smith, a research curator at the Science History Institute in Philadelphia, stands in the Downstream exhibit opening September 14, 2021. (Kimberly Paynter/WHYY) “Downstream,” the Science History ...

When Japan announced plans to release wastewater stored at the deactivated Fukushima power plant into the ocean over the summer, various countries such as China and South Korea reacted with concern ...

Oil refineries release billions of pounds of pollution annually into waterways, and that pollution disproportionately affects people of color, according to a new analysis of Environmental Protection ...

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