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 ...

The rule that would have reduced the discharge of nutrients and pollutants from meatpacking plants and slaughterhouses has been withdrawn.

Potentially thousands of tiny plastic pellets have leaked into the Congaree River, littering the waterway south of Columbia ...

The global use of face masks surged during the COVID-19 pandemic, but many have since been discarded as waste, contributing ...

At its peak concentration levels, the air wafting through the Tijuana River Valley contains thousands of times the typical ...

Water pollution presents a significant challenge for the stability of aquatic ecosystems and the organisms that inhabit them. Aquatic animals are ...

Pollution entering the Chesapeake Bay has dropped, but water quality remains below restoration targets, according to the ...

The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality has fined a polluting wood treater in northwest Oregon more than $1 million ...

Authorities closed a stretch of beach near the border because of sewage contamination. (Photo courtesy of County News Center) Detection of northward-drifting contamination out of the Tijuana River ...