Two conservation groups are petitioning the Montana Department of Environmental Quality to designate the Big Hole River, a treasured southwestern Montana fishery, as impaired for nutrient pollution.

Pharmaceutical pollution can significantly affect wild animal behaviour, including speeding up salmon migration.

The Tijuana River sewage crisis may be contributing to the current toxic algae bloom off the coast of Southern California, as the added nutrient load from the pollution is fueling the growth of ...

The Yangtze River Delta region has seen remarkable achievements in the regional integration and synergy of emergency management, and will continue to make joint efforts to ensure efficient emergency ...

The Yarlung Tansgpo / Brahmaputra dam shows we often don’t know how to deal with rivers that cross national borders.

Rapacious mining operations pump water used for gold extraction straight back into the river without treatment, raising ...

according to the results published in the journal of Environmental Science and Pollution Research. This is far from the 40 microplastics per cubic metre recorded in the world’s 10 most polluted rivers ...

"Alarming" levels of microplastic have been found in major rivers across Europe according to scientists in 14 studies ...

The appearance of thousands of dead pigs in the rivers around Shanghai highlights China's water-pollution problem. Richard Brubaker of Collective Responsibility tells the WSJ's Deborah Kan what the ...

Alarming levels of microplastics have been found in major rivers across Europe, according to a joint study of 14 studies ...