Water Pollution

This photo series is a story of nature and people. The making was at once both burdensome and awesome. Many months these images haunted my dreams and permeated my thoughts for much of my waking hours. This work used up my strength, time and money. And at each…

Posted May 14, 2019 09:46:13 On the deepest dive ever made by a human inside a submarine, a United States explorer saw something he could have found in the gutter of nearly any street in the world: rubbish. Key points: The dive went 16 metres lower than …

The world's most polluted capital city is blanketed in a toxic smog of car fumes, agricultural smoke and factory waste most winters, but it is less severe in summer months. PHOTO:AFP/FILE NEW DELHI: New Delhi suffered a rare summer air pollution alert Monda…

By 2030, at its current pace of growth, the fashion industry is expected to be worth $3.3 trillion. It will manufacture 102 million tons of clothes and shoes. For comparison, that is the weight equivalent to a half million blue whales. If nothing changes, the…

By Sharon Kelly, an attorney and freelance writer based in Philadelphia. She has reported for The New York Times, The Guardian, The Nation, National Wildlife, Earth Island Journal, and a variety of other publications. Prior to beginning freelance writing, she…

There's a specific stand of bald cypress trees along the Black River in North Carolina that are some of the oldest trees in the country. Locally known as the Three Sisters Swamp, there are several trees in the group known to be more than 1,000 years old. But…

The city has seen a drastic rise in the number of vehicles after the bifurcation of the State. While 9,86,870 vehicles were registered in 2016-17, the number of vehicles registered in 2019, as of March, is 3,38,270. At this rate, the city would see over 13.5…

Many of the planet's most valuable mineral resources are to be found within and beneath forested landscapes. And our insatiable appetite for material goods and serviceseverything from basic essentials to the latest, must-have gadgetis driving global demand fo…

How the Chattahoochee Riverkeeper sparked Atlanta's growth

* Corresponding authors a Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Treatment & Resource Reuse, Hainan Normal University, Haikou, P. R. China E-mail:zaifengshi@163.com, zxp_inorganic@126.com b College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Hainan Normal…