Although water covers 70% of the Earth’s surface, only about 3% is freshwater, and less than 1% is accessible for human use. This small fraction sustains ecosystems, agriculture, and communities.

Surely there are local ordinances and environmental laws that can be applied against such acts of pollution. In many cases, however, the local officials who are supposed to enforce such laws are ...

A colleague had been studying how air pollution around the university harms the hearts and lungs of mice, and had asked Cory-Slechta to check the animals’ brains for damage. As a specialist in ...

Air pollution is leading to long-term health problems in Dorset, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight, and is putting a strain on local health services, according to a new report. Researchers from the ...

A price on pollution is widely recognized as the most efficient means to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions that are contributing to the more intense wildfires, droughts, and floods caused by climate ...

Heat domes intensify unhealthy air pollution from vehicles ... a natural circulation pattern that regulates and distributes water vapor from the Atlantic Ocean across the Amazon Basin, also ...

“I mean, it’s not really new anymore and it sure as hell isn’t happy, but you too, I guess.” ...

“We are fighting to hold it accountable to clean the devastating pollution it caused ... remained a troubled and contaminated body of water,” Carmel Henry, President of the NAACP DC ...

Record temperatures last year pushed the global water cycle to “new climatic extremes,” according to the Global Water Monitor 2024 report. The document, produced by an international consortium ...

This year, Pakistan’s battle with air pollution has reached harrowing new ... On top of this, nitrogen runoff endangers water quality and aquatic ecosystems. The ongoing smog crisis in Pakistan ...

The assessment concluded that pollution and water management facilities, like dams, are the top causes of habitat loss and decline in the faunal population. The multi-taxonal study, published in ...