The estimate pops up again and again in reporting on the West’s most important waterway, but one researcher thinks it might ...

Millions of kilometres of rivers around the world are carrying antibiotic pollution at levels high enough to promote drug resistance and harm aquatic life, a McGill University-led study warns.

Rivers and streams are vital arteries in the global carbon cycle, transporting and processing huge amounts of organic matter from land to sea. However, increasing urbanization and intensive ...

Human consumption of antibiotics increased by 65% between 2000 and 2015. These drugs are not completely metabolized while passing through the body, nor completely destroyed or removed by most ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. A night fishing trip 30 years ago showed Brazilian public health doctor Apolo Heringer the meaning of health: a clean river full of fish — a notion ...