Peru's El Cascajo Lake was once a popular spot to boat, fish, and swim, but it was plagued by pollution from an illegal landfill.

There have been some massive recalls of green salad, and meat-based deli salad, over the years. Many were triggered by ...

The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) recommends that citizens avoid disposing of expired or unwanted medications by sending them down the drain. Instead, the MPCA urges citizens to ...

More than 20 bodies of water in McLeod County are included on a Minnesota Pollution Control Agency list of impaired waters. The list includes 318 new lakes, rivers and streams across Minnesota ...

Nearly every sample of seafood in Oregon contains microscopic, cancer-causing plastics, a new study from Portland State ...

Heavy metals naturally occur in the Earth's crust, but human activities can increase their concentration in the environment, ...

Red tide has hit some areas of Southwest Florida this past week. Could it affect PCB? Here's a look at the data.

We already know that air pollution is bad for our lungs and heart. Now, scientists are finding that it may also harm our ...

The industrial wood pellet industry in the U.S. manufactures and exports wood pellets to burn in power plants to produce electricity, and this ...

Microplastics were detected in almost every seafood sample found off the coast of the western U.S. in a recent study. The particles were found in the edible tissue of six different species of fish.

Polluted runoff is still smothering the Great Barrier Reef, our first national assessment of water quality trends in ...

Without concerted action, pollution threatens to leave the Drin River and its main tributaries “lifeless”, environmentalists ...