The state claimed “forever chemicals,” also known as PFAS, contaminated groundwater from an industrial park where they were ...

Landslide-generated tsunamis pose a serious risk to coastal communities, particularly within narrow fjords where tall cliffs ...

The Atlantic Ocean has a toxic seaweed problem. Floating in brown islands of algae, this year’s sargassum bloom has already ...

Scientists will meet in Italy later this month to discuss chemical food safety issues related to water quality. The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and World Health Organization (WHO ...

The Safe Drinking Water Act regulates about 90 contaminants, yet the Environmental Protection Agency has identified over 600 chemicals that might be present in U.S. water supplies. That’s a lot ...

lead and copper—all critical water constituents or contaminants. They compared their concentrations in the nanopores with those in bulk concentrations. In pristine or hydrophobic nanopores ...

A cutting-edge test can now identify the source of feces faster and more accurately than previous methods. Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist with nearly two decades of newsroom experience.

Distilled water and purified water both undergo processing to remove certain contaminants and impurities. Both types of water are generally safe to drink as part of a balanced diet. Distilled ...

On March 11, 2011, the Great East Japan Earthquake, magnitude 9.0, struck 80 miles off the Northeast Coast of Japan, generating a series of tsunami ... contamination of U.S. food and water.

The massive inflow of tourism in Antarctica during the austral summer, almost 125,000 visitors per season, more than double the number five years ago, is becoming a growing concern for many NGOs and ...

This week’s Don’t Trash Our Treasure report is on Florida Power & Light’s Turkey Point nuclear plant in south Miami-Dade ...

Isabel Solorio shows a glass of cloudy water in the Lanare community center in 2013. Lanare is a Fresno County town of 600 where arsenic-tainted water came out of the tap until new wells were ...