A global review of more than 6,000 records shows that water pollution now affects nearly half of the world’s waters.

Ocean pollution is quietly draining energy from seabirds’ cells, as mercury and forever chemicals disrupt mitochondria even ...

Products made from plastic have become a critical problem, polluting bodies of water worldwide. Plastics in oceans have become so ubiquitous that a term was coined — ocean-bound plastic — to describe ...

Minnesota is very proud of its water. Of all of our state nicknames, we are most famous in the United States for being the “Land of 10,000 Lakes.” That name is even a bit of a misnomer, as we are ...

The Ninth Circuit rejected EPA’s decision not to update nationwide water pollution standards for thousands of major industrial polluters The Ninth Circuit rejected EPA’s decision not to update ...

Activists want to see BP update its water pollution control technology and monitor or set limits for dozens of toxic chemicals — things like PFAS, benzene and arsenic. Activists and northwest Indiana ...

When they arrived in Longboat Key this February, Carol Leone and her family were excited for two weeks of relaxation in the salty breeze. Within days, they started to cough. Soon, Leone’s voice ...

Ohio’s top attorney is asking the justices to weigh in on whether it can pursue legal action against a natural gas pipeline developer following a 2017 spill. A yearslong water pollution dispute ...

Ravinder Kumar wades through ankle-deep sludge every day to leave his home in Sharma Enclave in northwest Delhi – yet inside the brick tenement, he does not have a drop to drink.

The air is polluted, the water is drying out and the land collapsing. Many Iranian farmers have been forced to give up their ...