SYDNEY: Australia on Friday launched a multi-million dollar effort to stop pesticide runoff and other water quality issues on the Great Barrier Reef, the latest effort to save the ailing …
Swimmers are being warned about the severe health risks of taking a dip in dirty waters after fears over the River Seine’s cleanliness led to the postponement of the Olympic …
RistoArnaudov | Getty Images Research into the humble mushroom — an important dietary staple for many of us — suggests that the waste left over from growing fungi could have …
BAGHDAD: Stricken by drought and depleted by upstream dams, Iraq‘s once mighty rivers the Tigris and Euphrates are suffocating under pollutants from sewage to medical waste.In a country where half …
Drilling for oil and gas produces a lot of wastewater. There’s tons of the stuff just sitting around, too toxic to release back into the environment, and oil companies have …
The city of Paris, France, is allowing residents to swim in the river Seine again for the first time in a century this weekend. France’s capital has been making efforts …