Growing up in the 1970s, I took for granted the trash piles along the highway, tires washed up on beaches, and smog fouling ...

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The Environmental Protection Agency says it will propose a drinking water limit for perchlorate, a chemical in certain ...

"We are giving up something that has value and we are sending it somewhere where it is damaging to the system, in this case ...

It was a year of growing challenges as well as comeback stories in the Great Lakes. While Detroit welcomed a large new park, ...

Despite the Great Salt Lake's dire straits, state researchers and elected leaders remain optimistic that Utah will become the ...

New report by Boston College researchers and colleagues from The Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health follows up on landmark 2018 study Pollution continues to kill approximately 9 million people ...

When the Environmental Protection Agency released its plan earlier this month for addressing marine litter, it named five Asian nations—China, Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam—as ...

Decades, national pollution averages masked the true scope of carbon dioxide emissions, hiding dangers from nearby factories, ...

Widespread ocean pollution threatens the health of more than 3 billion people, international study led by Boston College researchers shows Ocean pollution is widespread and getting worse, and when ...