In Chester County, Pennsylvania, about 40 miles northwest of Philadelphia, Beaver Run carves a triangular piece of bottomland as it turns east to join French Creek. 

Breathing dirty air takes a heavy toll on gut bacteria, boosting risk of obesity, diabetes, gastrointestinal disorders and other chronic illnesses, new University of Colorado Boulder research suggests.

One bayou meanders toward downtown Houston. The other runs in parallel to the south, much of it through a concrete channel.

Tübingen University researchers find organic material in deep sediment layers in Vietnam – New knowledge first step to combatting groundwater contamination.

A study by the UPV/EHU-University of the Basque Country has demonstrated that 15 days’ exposure to microplastics affects some freshwater systems.

More than half of the world’s population faces a looming threat to the quality and availability of their drinking water because climate change and urbanisation are expected to cause an increase in groundwater organic carbon, a new UNSW study has found.

Efforts to create synthetic replacements for palm oil are still likely to take several years, so immediate attention should be focused on making the existing production process more sustainable, researchers at the University of Bath’s Centre for Integrated Bioprocessing Research (CIBR) and Centre for Sustainable Circular Technologies (CSCT) have found.

Wearing clothes can release even greater quantities of microfibres to the environment than washing them, new research shows.

Colour-changing crabs struggle to camouflage themselves when exposed to noise from ships, new research shows.

One week is all it takes for a piece of plastic floating in the ocean to begin to smell like turtle food.