FILE - Ships travel along the Mississippi River in LaPlace, La., as the sun sets on Oct. 20, 2023. The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that can contaminate ...

Braided channels of the Mississippi River near the Quad Cities are pictured Sept. 18. Flight support provided by LightHawk. Iowa is one of 33 states that fuel algae blooms that starve aquatic life of ...

Nutrient runoff from agricultural production is a significant source of water pollution in the U.S., and climate change that produces extreme weather events is likely to exacerbate the problem. A new ...

Plans to allow housing developers in England and Wales to “offset” the river pollution caused by building new homes may not actually work, as they are often impractical and lack scientific evidence to ...

New international research found that food webs are becoming less complex in warmer, nutrient-rich waters. The effect of rising water temperatures on ecosystems is likely to interact with pre-existing ...

The algal blooms increasingly seen in Canadian lakes have been linked to both nutrient pollution from agricultural runoff and climate change. However, a new Concordia-led study using DNA sequencing of ...

Whenever water is being released from Lake Okeechobee into the northern estuaries of the St. Lucie and the Caloosahatchee, people become concerned about the impact it is having to our water quality.

If you would like to learn more about the IAEA’s work, sign up for our weekly updates containing our most important news, multimedia and more. Every year, human activities add large amounts of ...

An update of Louisiana's strategy to help reduce the low-oxygen “dead zone” in the Gulf of Mexico is being criticized as inadequate because of its reliance on a proposed project now in doubt and for ...

The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic dead zone for aquatic life in the Gulf of Mexico, according to a recently ...