Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 20: In an aerial view, pools of water are visible at the East Bay Municipal Utility District ...

Researchers created a special kind of algae that can grab microscopic plastic pollution out of water almost like a magnet.

Thisura Ilukgoda Gedara, a Kansas State University graduate student, samples water from a family’s well in Pratt County, Kansas, in 2024. Nitrate pollution, mostly from chemical fertilizer, has become ...

Water quality has been a major news headline in 2025, and much attention was paid to the cause of nitrates in central Iowa water. However, a little farther south, equally concerning water quality ...

State officials knew nearly two decades ago that toxic chemicals called PFAS were spreading from the carpet mills of northwest Georgia into rivers that are the region's main source of drinking water.

Two environmental groups have filed a federal lawsuit against Amsted Graphite Materials LLC, alleging repeated violations of ...

Yorkshire Water has been fined £865,000 for polluting a watercourse with millions of litres of chlorinated water, killing hundreds of fish. The water firm was issued the fine at Sheffield Magistrates’ ...

Wildfires can cause contaminants to seep into waterways, polluting the drinking water that communities rely on.

Yorkshire Water admitted polluting a stream in Poolsbrook Country Park three times in less than a year Yorkshire Water has been fined more than £700,000 for polluting a country park stream in ...

Yorkshire Water has been fined more than £700,000 for polluting a country park stream in Derbyshire with sewage three times in a year, the Environment Agency said. The agency said fish and river ...