South Africa’s Supreme Court of Appeal has held electricity utility Eskom and state regulators responsible for water pollution from a coal fired power station.
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England’s event duration monitoring system records when a sewage overflow starts and stops. But duration alone tells us very little about the pollution released.
For decades, regular citizens and advocacy groups have filed suits that forced companies and the federal government to clean up the environment. Trump officials have moved to limit that power.
Pressure from trade agreements can clean up sources of environmental harm, leading to cleaner rivers in the case of Mexico’s much-loved avocados.
There’s one big threat facing the Great Barrier Reef which Australian authorities can solve. But will they?
The Caspian Sea is becoming warmer and shallower, with damaging economic and environmental effects.
Citizens are taking water testing into their own hands as sewage spills in rivers and on beaches increasingly get reported.
Navigating the benefits and risks of eating fish is a daily concern for consumers in Kenya due to persistent environmental pollution. How much are they influenced by nutritional labelling and guidelines?
Even as they create and enable expansive virtual worlds, data centers are physical buildings in real communities around the nation and the globe.
A new report shows nitrate contamination has been worsening at more than a third of monitored groundwater sites – likely because of human activities.
The largest sewage spill in US history wasn’t the first, and it won’t be the last.
River water is not expected to prove to be less polluted when results are published later this year.
Through navigating pollution, outdoor swimmers are reminded that the health and wellbeing of our bodies is bound to the quality of our waters.
The Orinoco Basin is one of the most biodiverse places on the planet. It’s also rich in oil, gold and critical minerals crucial to modern technology.
The water industry has been left to police its own pollution.
Profits and public protection appear to be incompatible.
Excess road and sidewalk salt flows into storm drains and ultimately into area streams and rivers, affecting fish and other aquatic organisms.
Plants need phosphorus, and other nutrients, to grow. But soil tests can’t tell if there’s too much.
Rural and environmental issues are high on the political agenda in the upcoming Welsh election.
In a disaster or emergency, households can take steps to purify drinking water.
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Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
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Adjunct Principal Research Fellow, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University
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Professor of Biology, University of Portsmouth
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Professor of Water Science, Liverpool John Moores University
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Professor of Law, University of California, Davis
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UNESCO Chair on Climate Change Variability of Natural and Cultural Heritage and Professor in Physics, James Cook University
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Professor Emeritus of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Adjunct professor, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Chief Conservation Officer, Project Seagrass & Research Affiliate, Swansea University
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Professor of Marine Science, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
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Professor of Law Emeritus, Vermont Law & Graduate School
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Professor of Water Research; Director, Water Alliance, Michigan State University
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Oceanographer, The University of Western Australia
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Director, Ocean and Coastal Policy Center, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Emeritus Professor of Marine Science, Virginia Institute of Marine Science