pollution

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) this week announced that it is adopting new rules that require water utilities to alert customers.

Minnesota regulators approved key permits for Enbridge’s Line 3 crude pipeline replacement across northern Minnesota, setting the long-delayed ...

A series of heartbreaking images of a hungry elephant rummaging through piles of trash has shed light on ...

Face coverings are now a legal requirement in many public spaces around the world. But even before they ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin declared a state of emergency in the Norilsk region after 20,000 metric tons (approx. ...

A new report by Tangaroa Blue Foundation has revealed a deeper look at 24 tonnes of litter, the ...

The Australian Marine Safety Authority has charged the master of the APL England for pollution offences and ordered ...

Australian environmental officials are investigating what turned a creek in Melbourne’s north to bright pink over the weekend. ...

China faces a food production crisis due to its agricultural policies that encouraged the over-pumping of groundwater and ...

We’ve known the health hazards of air pollution since the dawn of the industrial age, but while its ...

Commentary A lot of things are going wrong on this planet, and a lot of those problems are ...

Commentary As we embark on a new decade, do we approach the 2020s with hope or with a ...

Commentary Boyan Slat is the 24-year-old founder and CEO of The Ocean Cleanup, a company that has deployed ...

NEW DELHI—Authorities in India's capital New Delhi banished from the roads cars with number plates ending in an ...

NEW DELHI—Authorities in India's capital New Delhi banished from the roads cars with number plates ending in an ...

SHANGHAI/BEIJING—China's top steelmaking province of Hebei has issued an "orange" smog alert effective from Nov. 1, with pollution ...

China’s agricultural and fishery authorities in 2003 began imposing an annual three-month fishing ban in the Yangtze River ...

With 91 percent of the 8.8 million tons of plastic added to oceans each year originating in rivers, ...

An Irish teenager won an international online science competition sponsored by Google earlier in August. West Cork genius Fionn Ferreira, ...

MIAMI—Carnival Corp. reached a settlement on June 3 with federal prosecutors in which the world’s largest cruise line ...

The African swine fever has spread to 27 provinces in China, with Shandong Province the latest to report ...

REGINA—Legal experts, government officials, and industry leaders will all watch this week as Saskatchewan and Ottawa head to ...

President Donald Trump extended and expanded what he called a "very important" program to clean up sea-borne waste ...

A couple in China saw the entire fish stock at their fish farm disappear after high volumes of ...

A construction worker arrested for lighting a fire to keep warm has become a symbol for China’s netizens ...

Radioactive cesium from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has been flowing into the ocean since an earthquake ...