Human uptake of microplastic particles (MPs) is causing increasing health concerns, and there is mounting pressure to evaluate the associated risks. While MPs can be ingested, breathed in, or drank in ...

You may have seen images of seabirds that have built their nests on discarded nets, lengths of rope and other plastic litter, ...

Pollution is leaking into the bay waters from creeks bearing nitrogen and phosphorous from wastewater treatment plants, septic tanks and fertilizer runoff from the surrounding watersheds.

The Ubiquity of Plastic in Our Lives Plastic has become an inevitable part of modern life. If you look around, almost ...

A West Virginia University researcher is working to understand and estimate environmental cleanup costs associated with agricultural runoff that causes polluted "dead zones" in downstream coastal ...

This coastal wetlands is an example of a Great Lakes project in which DU worked with state and federal agencies. Photo by James Proffitt_ ...

Welsh farmers banned from disposing of waste sheep dip on their land over river pollution fears One solution is to find and fix every illegal sewage outlet to prevent waste going into rivers.

Nitrate levels in rivers and streams flowing into coastal areas surveyed by the environmental ... “The chronic pollution indicator – filamentous brown algae and/or sewage fungus – topped ...

An EPA-funded study found, for example, that Black people at all income levels are more likely to breathe pollution that causes heart and lung problems. Under Biden, regulators wrote public health ...

The city has never claimed any coastal area to be risk-free ... recognising also that there are points of pollution to avoid at known hotspots closed to recreational use, such as Lagoon Beach ...

The Bangkok Metropolitan Administration urged people to work from home for the rest of the week if they can, with air pollution forecast to worsen after already forcing the temporary closure of ...