Water Pollution

An overwhelming majority of Britons back having a bottle deposit scheme to tackle plastic waste. A poll found 72 per cent of the population support the introduction of a deposit and refund scheme (DRS). The same proportion believe England and Wales should m…

Fish-scale-mimicked super oil-repelling wettability that functions under water has emerged as an important avenue for developing various functional materials. Mainly, polymeric hydrogel, brittle metal oxides, and electrostatic multilayers have been utilized f…

Posted July 26, 2019 06:05:14 They are the cheapest waterfront accommodation you can buy, but when a houseboat springs a leak that idyllic lifestyle can quickly sink. Key points: Transport Minister Mark Bailey says this is the third sinking in th…

Media captionCrews have been tackling a boat fire Three people have been hurt in an explosion and fire on a pleasure boat. A woman has been airlifted to hospital and two others have been treated for injuries after the blaze, which happened at 12:20 BST at U…

Posted July 25, 2019 10:11:00 Thousand of bean bag balls have washed up on a pristine north Queensland island, with locals kicking into gear to clean up the mess. It is not known where the polystyrene balls came from, but they were spread far and wide acr…

Meet Maxine Bédat! She is a superstar in the sustainability scene as the founder and director of The New Standard Institute, an organization poised to transform the global apparel industry by enacting critical and science-based environmental objectives. Even…

A new scientific paper co-authored by the University of Plymouth has said that eight urgent, simultaneous actions are needed to head off potential ecological disaster in the global ocean, amid signs of steeper and faster changes than even recent models predic…

New York beaches are among the crappiest in the country, according to a new study on fecal water pollution. Roughly 65 percent of the Empire State’s swimming spots are potentially unsafe due to pooh-particles with Tanner Park on South Oyster Bay, Woodlawn St…

Ive written many articles discussing how industrial agriculture is a primary source of water pollution and toxic algae growth that result in huge dead zones where all aquatic life is suffocated.1 There are 18 major river basins2 in the continental U.S., with …

Management that takes evolution and adaptation into account can help rescue coral reefs from the effects of climate change, according to a new study. Importantly, the results show that by making smart decisions to protect reefs today, conservation managers c…