Clean, safe water is vital for human health and well-being. It also plays a critical role in our food security, supports high ...

When local health departments issue swim advisories at Hampton Roads beaches, it’s because they’ve determined the concentration of enterococci bacteria is too high. The bacteria is a ...

A study by the Waterkeeper Alliance documented elevated PFAS concentrations downstream of wastewater treatment facilities and ...

Cambridge scientists have spotted gut bacteria that greedily soak up PFAS “forever chemicals,” then ferry them safely out of ...

Thriving microbe communities living in the most-polluted spots in the US offer insight into how to clean up the mess of ...

A long-awaited scientific report commissioned by Polk County says farm pollution threatens the ability to drink clean water.

Microbial activity in flowback and produced water (FPW) may negatively influence shale oil and gas extraction. However, the impacts of using recycled produced water (RPW) for subsequent fracturing ...

This past winter, researchers from the Center for Earth Observation Science (CEOS) at the University of Manitoba (UM) ...

Japan has started releasing wastewater into the ocean. But this isn’t the kind of wastewater that flows from city streets into stormwater drains. It’s treated nuclear wastewater used to cool ...

It is no secret that the presence of humans has left visible scars on this planet. Be it edging out endangered species with our ever-expanding footprint, or the environmental pollution that comes as a ...

Banner image: A coral reef around Nukuoro Atoll in the Federated States of Micronesia, where microbial-based monitoring is undertaken to assess reef health. Image courtesy of Alyson Santoro/WHOI.