A recent spill of bio-beads—small plastic pellets used by some wastewater treatment facilities since the 1990s—has brought ...

Two Stormont departments are among three bodies under investigation by the UK's environment watchdog over sewage discharges ...

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News. Some 280 years after a river-swimming Benjamin Franklin petitioned to curb wathyer pollution here, the city is still struggling to meet the ...

Nearly 55 million gallons of sewage are threatening Hawaii’s coral reefs. Much of that pollution enters the ground each day, within just a few hundred yards of the coast and the 410,000 acres of ...

SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI)– San Diego County officials installed warning signs in the South Bay on Wednesday morning to alert the community of the dangers of toxic gases and contaminated air that have ...

Community interest company Clean Jurassic Coast said the incident is "one of the worst they have ever seen" and the pellets are "extremely harmful to wildlife and incredibly difficult to remove".

Clear targets must be set by the mayor of London to make the capital's rivers safe for swimming, a report by the London Assembly has said. Among its other recommendations, the Environment Committee ...