Scientists with the San Francisco Estuary Institute are deploying robotic stormwater samplers in creeks to track pollutants before they reach San Francisco Bay. The devices collect real-time samples ...

While officials report that 96.22 percent of this waste is collected and 90 percent is processed, field monitoring tells a more troubling story. The report states that whilst 96 percent of plastic ...

Even at levels safe for humans, air pollution can disrupt the way some insects communicate with plants, and with each other.

A new accounting of nitrogen pollution in the Mississippi-Atchafalaya River Basin (MARB) reveals a significant decline in ...

Each year, thousands of pounds of trash and pollution make their way into the Houston bayous' waterways. One organization works year-round to remove debris, but crews say the problem continues to grow ...

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) repealed Biden-era regulations that forced power plants to cut harmful pollutants including brain-damaging mercury and particulate matter, EPA ...

The EPA repealed stricter mercury limits for coal plants, citing cost savings. Health advocates warn the move could increase pollution risks for children and families.

This is the first observational evidence that re-entering space debris leaves a detectable, human-caused chemical fingerprint ...

With the exception of infectious diseases, examination of the environmental causes of illness has been piecemeal. Gary Miller, a toxicologist at Columbia University who also addressed the meeting, ...

A D.C. utility had been working for weeks to repair a collapsed sewer line when the president blamed Maryland’s governor for the contamination on Monday.

Fifteen years ago, Beijing's Liangma riverbanks would have been smog-choked and deserted in winter, but these days they are dotted with families and exercising pensioners most mornings. The turnaround ...

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the Environmental Protection Agency is rescinding the legal finding that it has relied on for nearly two decades to limit the heat-trapping pollution ...