Despite it all, there’s a thriving miniature ecosystem of billions of microbes just atop the sediment. What’s more, ...

The industrially ravaged Gowanus Canal, long regarded as a symbol of urban environmental neglect, is being reimagined through ...

Scientists have found new but tentative evidence that a faraway world orbiting another star may be home to life. ..

Microbes in the Gowanus sediment have evolved methods of coping with and even subsisting off of the contamination, according ...

Michigan State University (MSU) researchers have discovered a new microorganism living deep underground. The microbe was ...

Scientists at Michigan State University have discovered a new group of microbes living deep underground that help purify ...

A 2021 study published in Biological Conservation, an academic peer-reviewed journal, outlined that sewage pollution ...

Outside the little crossroads community of Birney, Montana, on the Tongue River is a test site run by the Wyoming-Montana Water Science Center. A group of scientists with the center are testing ...

A virulent strain of antibiotic-resistant ‘superbug’ bacteria that causes severe disease has been found circulating in a Malaysian hospital, a new study by academics has revealed. The threat ...

According to the report, the coliform positivity rate in Kingston’s urban distribution network exceeded acceptable standards, indicating the presence of harmful bacteria in the water being ...

disproportionately affecting developing regions with inadequate infrastructure and limited access to safe drinking water. In the Global South, waterborne pathogens such as bacteria, viruses, protozoa, ...

Ontario is falling short on mental health services for youth and in overseeing the safety of wells and other non-municipal water systems at cottages and farms, says the province’s auditor general.