Water Pollution

Environmental travesty: Toxic drug residues in rivers and lakes have increased twenty-fold, killing off bacteria beneficial to marine life

We tend to think about climate change as an environmental problem. But it's the impending impacts on our health that have medical experts sounding the alarm. Last November, planetary health professor Tony Capon co-authored the first national report to track…

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Taking into consideration the challenges posed by climate change, students of colleges affiliated to Bangalore University will be taught about air and water pollution from the 2019-20 academic year. They will also have subjects related to solid waste manage…

Posted July 04, 2019 11:53:07 About 1,500 Adelaide residents and businesses have been told not to use groundwater because of contamination from uranium and degreasing chemicals. Key points: A groundwater ban is proposed for most of the Adelaide s…

How’s this for a “reel-y” great catch? A British angler pulled in the world’s biggest Siamese carp after battling the record-breaking fish for more than an hour in a Thai lagoon. John Harvey, 42, managed to capture the 231-lb. carp, also known as a giant ca…

In a peer-reviewed report released today, researchers have identified more than 100 million hectares of lost lowland tropical rain forestsrestoration hotspotsspread out across Central and South America, Africa and Southeast Asia that present the most compelli…

Irish Water is carrying out essential cleaning works at the RingsendWastewater Treatment Plant in Dublin over the coming days to deal with current odour issues and to reduce risk of odours arising over the summer months. The plant, which treats about 40 per …

A screenshot of the sea star.  (Photo: Twitter) It's never a pleasure to be a buzzkill, especially for something so delightfully silly. But a "starfish" that went viral recently for its so-called "rear end" does not have an unusually large butt. The photo …

Carnival Corp and Royal Caribbean Cruises are the world's biggest cruise companies, but they're also among the worst at limiting the pollution from their ships, according to the environmental-advocacy group Friends of the Earth. The group graded 16 cruise …