As sea levels climb and weather grows more extreme, coastal regions everywhere are facing a creeping threat: salt. Salinization of freshwater and soils adversely affects 500 million people around the ...

Despite being considered sanctuaries for biodiversity, Brazil's marine protected areas (MPAs) are not immune to microplastic contamination.

Some fishers in Bamako, Mali’s capital, are raising concerns about dredging of the Niger River in search of gold. They say the combination of dredging and increasing plastic pollution is causing ...

The river’s ongoing pollution, on top of decades of hazardous waste dumping, earned the Calcasieu the #9 slot on American Rivers’ 2025 list of most endangered rivers. In southwest Louisiana ...

The Sumatran Elephant: A Forest Dweller’s Fight ... The Yangtze finless porpoise, in the Yangtze River, faces survival challenges from industrial pollution, overfishing, and habitat degradation. Once ...

A wind farm, construction company, farmer and plant hire firm have been taken to court for polluting rivers in the latest round of prosecutions by Inland Fisheries Ireland (IFI). The four separate ...

Pollution in the Arkavathy River stretch near TG Halli Reservoir has hit rock bottom, the latest water quality report of the river under the National Water Monitoring Program (NWMP) has highlighted.

right behind the first-ranked Mississippi River, to bring greater attention to the waterway's chronic pollution problems and the lack of action to clean it up. Activists with another group ...

The Tijuana River has for decades been plagued with pollution from Mexico, fouling beaches near the U.S.-Mexico border with raw sewage. The group American Rivers has ranked the Tijuana River the ...

The Big Hole River is already considered an impaired water for other pollution listings such as sediment, temperature, flow, metals and fish habitat. Irrigation supporting agriculture is ...

While wearing a respirator to protect against the smell and pathogens coming from one of the main flows of the Tijuana River, Angel Granados, a San Diego State University professor who is working ...

Sumatran Orangutan in a tree ... This remarkable freshwater porpoise inhabits the Yangtze River and adjacent lakes, but industrial activity and pollution have led to their sharp decline. With fewer ...