Canceled grants and shifting federal priorities are halting progress — and prompting a legal fight to protect climate ...

Nearly everyone in the U.S. lives within one mile of a river, but half of the rivers across the country have unsafe levels of ...

The Mississippi River is considered the most endangered in the U.S. due to uncertainty over the Federal Emergency Management ...

The pharmaceutical industry faces environmental challenges. Green chemistry offers sustainable solutions to reduce waste and enhance drug discovery processes.

Nearly 17% of the world’s croplands are contaminated with “heavy metals”, according to a new study in Science. These ...

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

The river is threatened primarily by FEMA's uncertain future, said American Rivers, an environmental group based in ...

That coal ash, the waste from burning coal, was at risk of leaching into groundwater and spreading toxins, officials said. It ...

Pharmaceutical pollution in waterways is changing animal behavior. Exposure to an antianxiety drug is affecting migrating Atlantic salmon, according to a new study.

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

A new trash wheel is one of nearly two dozen projects set to receive money through a $1.7 million settlement fund, which ...