Thriving microbe communities living in the most-polluted spots in the US offer insight into how to clean up the mess of ...

Hackensack, NJ - On the surface, the Lower Hackensack River winds quietly through Bergen and Hudson counties. But beneath ...

Construction on the new Conestee Dam is nearly complete, and more than a year ahead of schedule, according to project lead ...

CLARK COUNTY, Wash. (KATU) - Officials in Oregon are warning people and pet owners about some local waterways that have tested positive for a new type of toxic algae. A family’s dog died after coming ...

Detroit River cleanup cost estimated at $1 billion Despite more than $4 billion in federal investment to restore the Great Lakes and its toxic sites since 2010, the Detroit River toxic sediment ...

The status report by ERM, which tested more than 100 sediment samples from more than 40 coring locations, found that "as expected in an urban river, practically all metals exceed the ER-L (Effects ...

ORRINGTON, Maine — The owners of a shuttered chemical plant in Orrington are facing a notice of violation from the Maine Department of Environmental Protection decades after toxic contamination was ...

The team’s models suggest that when the dam was breached, two waves produced a surge of water both up- and downstream, rapidly draining the reservoir and exposing as much as 1.7km 3 of polluted ...

The destruction of Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam in June 2023 exposed lake bed sediment containing more than 90,000 tons of dangerous heavy metals, setting off what researchers say is a toxic “time ...

The destruction of Ukraine’s Kakhovka dam in June 2023 exposed lake bed sediment containing more than 90,000 tons of dangerous heavy metals, setting off what researchers say is a toxic “time ...

Many of the dumping grounds, which are still leaching a toxic brew of cancer-causing contaminants like PCBs into the river, are now being used as popular recreation areas visited by hundreds of ...

A catastrophic flood in 1908 carried tons of toxic, metals-laced sediment downstream from mining and smelting operations in Butte and Anaconda, depositing contamination that covers more than 120 ...