Every year, 11.6 million pounds of plastic trash makes its way into Lake Michigan, Chicago’s largest source of drinking water ...

Researchers find artefacts, dwellings, and several other objects in a city that could be older than the Indus Valley ...

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The beaches won’t be open just because we’re accelerating the 10 million gallons per day, let’s be very clear, we don’t want to give false hope.” ...

A growing number of cities are attempting to use data, often painstakingly gathered through dumpsite visits and household ...

Researchers launched GPS-equipped plastic bottles into a Raleigh creek to track how local litter travels downstream, breaks into microplastics and threatens ecosystems and human health.

Some beach towns in the Cape Fear region have taken steps to capture and treat stormwater runoff before it can reach the ocean or soundside areas.

Toxic dust from the drying Great Salt Lake is a threat to Utah's health and future. State regulators and lawmakers must ...

The surrounding regions of New York City, Los Angeles and Philadelphia were ranked among the dirtiest major metropolitan ...

Pollution regulations began after the Environmental Protection Agency formed in 1970. The Trump administration has recently ...