Water Pollution

A research assistant at the Baden-Württemberg Agricultural Centre holds a methane detector that ... measures methane emissions in the exhaled air of cows.Photo by Thomas Warnack/picture alliance via Getty Images picture alliance via Getty Images Agricul…

An Isis bride who was once a member of the Irish military will soon return to Dublin with her two-year-old daughter. Lisa Smith, 38, is a former member of Irelands Defence Forces who went to Syria in 2015 after converting to Islam and becoming radicalised. …

Coral reefs around the world have long suffered from the effects of climate change and overfishing. But scientists haven't given up on saving the natural wonders — and now, a new study shows loudspeakers could help.  Researchers set up underwater loudspeaker…

A broken pipe leaked more than a million gallons of raw sewage into the sea off the California coast, shutting down miles of Orange County beaches as authorities scrambled to fix it. The spill was first reported on Wednesday afternoon, and the source of the …

(PORT NECHES, Texas) — More than 50,000 people in East Texas remained under a mandatory evacuation order Thursday as a fire continued to burn at a chemical plant, one day after two massive explosions there. Jefferson County Sheriff Zena Stephens said the eva…

Holding a major international summit on climate change against a backdrop of civil discontent like the kind that has rocked Chile might have given the world the impression that issues like clean energy can be addressed without also confronting problems of soc…

Image copyrightGetty Images It's been by far the greenest campaign in UK election history, with parties pledging tougher policies on the environment and climate change. But in a year of Greta Thunberg's UN speech and Sir David Attenborough's documentaries o…

This handout image taken early on November 27, 2019 and released to AFP by Ryan Mathewson, who lives roughly two minutes from the plant with his family, shows fire and flames following an explosion at a chemical plant in the Texas city of Port Neches,…

PORT NECHES, Texas — Three workers were injured early Wednesday in a massive explosion at a Texas chemical plant that also blew out the windows and doors of nearby homes. Firefighters worked to contain a blaze that erupted after the blast at the TPC Group pl…

From fires in the Amazon and in Australia, to flash flooding in Europe, right across the globe we are witnessing the impact of climate change on the environment. But how does a changing climate affect key infrastructure? Engineering experts explain. How does…