The Tijuana River has been plagued with raw sewage and industrial waste from Tijuana for decades, fouling beaches along the U ...

A look at the contaminated wells, legal battles, and unanswered questions facing southern West Virginia: Part 2 In Part 1, ...

Using advanced DNA sequence analysis, a research team has discovered that tiny organisms in Brooklyn's highly contaminated Gowanus Canal have developed a comprehensive collection of pollution-fighting ...

Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...

Desalination plants, a major and growing source of freshwater in dry regions, could produce less harmful waste using electricity and new membranes.

The Tijuana River watershed straddles both sides of the US-Mexico border. For decades, economic policies have promoted ...

Everglades restoration has improved Florida's drinking water, but rising sea levels and saltwater intrusion now pose new threats.​ ...

By: Cassidy Delamarter, University Communications and MarketingImagine walking into a space filled with innovative solutions to real-world problems ...

Several U.S. jurisdictions have passed targeted bans on single-use plastic water bottles: South Lake Tahoe, California: As of ...

A third of Americans still breathe unhealthy air after decades of improvements—which the Trump administration wants to roll ...

A proposal for a hydropower plant on the Illinois River outlines how a new way of generating energy can benefit the environment, and cause less harm to the river. During Monday night’s City Council ...