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Two conservation groups are petitioning the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to designate the Big Hole River, a treasured southwestern Montana fishery, as impaired for nutrient pollution.
After a Texas-led study found unusually high cancer rates in East Harris County near the San Jacinto River, Commissioner Tom ...
A push by North Carolina’s powerful industry groups has some worried pollution in Asheboro and elsewhere will go unchecked.
But, according to a complaint filed Thursday in a Baltimore County Circuit Court by Middle River residents and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, construction grading on the 53-acre property has stirred ...
Scientists in Latin America are sounding the alarm over the presence of microplastics in freshwater sources — and the understudied human health impacts of the plastic pollution. A new report by SciDev ...
A growing "effluent plume" near Hobart's Museum of Old and New Art (Mona) was far from ideal a week before Christmas. Emails and reports show how the environmental emergency at a nearby Cadbury ...
Colombian energy giant Ecopetrol has polluted hundreds of sites with oil, including water sources and biodiverse wetlands, the BBC World Service has found. Data leaked by a former employee reveals ...
At the recent French-Speaking Pneumology Congress held in Marseille, France, between January 24 and 26, 2025, Olivier Brun, a pulmonologist at the Hospital Center of Perpignan in Perpignan, France ...
The intensity and devastation of this event was fuelled by climate pollution in three ways: 1. Record hot ocean temperatures in the Coral Sea over summer 2024-25 helped fuel its intensity. 2. Storm ...
“The devastation of this event was fuelled by climate pollution with record high ocean temperatures in the Coral Sea, powerful wind-driven waves riding on higher seas, intense rainfall and gale ...
The collapse of a tailings dam—an earth-filled embankment used to store mining waste—on February 18 released an estimated 50 million liters of waste into the Kafue River, according to ...