Water Pollution

Though lacking the size and prestige of The New York Times or The Washington Post, The Storm Lake Times is arguably just as important. Two years ago, the small, bi-weekly Iowa paper (circulation: 3,000) won the coveted Pulitzer Prize for taking onagricultur…

A coal ash pile in Guayama, Puerto Rico © 2019 for Human Rights Watch (Washington, DC)The United States Environmental Protection Agencys proposal to significantly weaken rules governing coal ash, a toxic byproduct of burning coal, poses a serious threat to …

Updated October 15, 2019 15:47:32 Chemical experts have warned a Queensland council that a plan to dump millions of litres of PFAS-tainted water into the sea off the Sunshine Coast is "insanity". Key points: The council's plan involves building a…

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trump administration on Thursday proposed retooling a 1991 rule on lead and cooper contamination in drinking water, but critics said the change slows by 20 years the timeline for removing aging lead service lines that could expose c…

Nature supports people in critical ways, often at a highly local level. Wild bees buzz through farms, pollinating vegetables as they go. Nearby, wetlands might remove chemicals from the farm's runoff, protecting a community drinking water source. In communiti…

Nature supports people in critical ways, often at a highly local level. Wild bees buzz through farms, pollinating vegetables as they go. Nearby, wetlands remove chemicals from the farms runoff, protecting a community drinking water source. In communities all …

Most people recognize that the natural world is essential to our physical health and mental wellbeing. But its one thing to understand that dependence intuitively, and another to actually witness the overwhelming influence of nature over our lives on a global…

A new model that captures nature's contributions to human wellbeing and compares them to peoples' future needs shows that, within the next thirty years, as many five billion people could face water and food insecurity - particularly in Africa and South Asia. …

Iraq has been plunged into a new cycle of instability that potentially could be the most dangerous this conflict-scarred nation has faced, barely two years after declaring victory over Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, ISIS) in a war that left much …

October 7: World Habitat Day The World Habitat Day is organized by the United Nations. The organization has designated the first Monday of every October to commemorate the day. Theme: Frontier Technologies as an innovative tool to transform waste to wealth.…