Across the central U.S., nitrate from crop fertilizer and livestock facilities is seeping into water underground. Many family ...

Runoff from industrial sites and facilities can carry contaminants that threaten both the environment and workplace safety. Here’s how smart filtration strategies help control pollution and protect ...

Rivers carry plastic across continents, so scientists tracked its movement across continents too. A sweeping new UC Santa Barbara-led study spanning four continents and eight countries has amassed one ...

“There was no warning, no conversation,” said Jane Clougherty, an environmental health scientist, who had a federal grant canceled earlier this year. Credit...Hannah Yoon for The New York Times ...

For years, the Environmental Protection Agency has assigned a dollar value to the lives saved and the health problems avoided through many of its environmental regulations. Now, that has changed. The ...

Each winter, Delhi slips back into a familiar emergency. A thick blanket of toxic smog settles over the city, visibility reduces, schools shut, flights are disrupted, and hospitals report a surge in ...

The plaintiffs in a novel lawsuit that seeks to put teeth behind a provision in the New Mexico Constitution requiring the Legislature to limit pollution are asking the state Supreme Court to hear the ...