An update of Louisiana's strategy to help reduce the low-oxygen “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is being criticized as inadequate because of its reliance on a proposed project now in doubt and for ...

When pollution gets bad enough in the rivers supplying Iowa's largest city with drinking water, it costs Des Moines around ...

River contaminants take many forms. Some, like oil sheens, excrement, sanitary products and fly-tipping are visible and often ...

The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a recently ...

Flowers grown on inexpensive floating platforms can help clean polluted waterways, over 12 weeks extracting 52 percent more phosphorus and 36 percent more nitrogen than the natural nitrogen cycle ...

Turfgrass maintenance is a critical component of urban, residential and recreational landscapes. Efficient nutrient management is pivotal in sustaining turfgrass health, enhancing soil structure and ...

A team of Johns Hopkins University seniors studying environmental health and engineering worked with the City of Baltimore to develop a nature-based solution to reduce nutrient pollution discharged ...

NOTICE: The project that is the subject of this report was approved by the Governing Board of the National Research Council, whose members are drawn from the councils of the National Academy of ...

The algal blooms increasingly seen in Canadian lakes have been linked to both nutrient pollution from agricultural runoff and climate change. However, a new Concordia-led study using DNA sequencing of ...

Despite the control measures and regulations in place, industrial water pollution is still a problem in the United States. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that thousands of ...

Plans to allow housing developers in England and Wales to “offset” the river pollution caused by building new homes may not actually work, as they are often impractical and lack scientific evidence to ...