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 ...

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.

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

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.

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-57161-6 Ozone pollution is a global environmental concern that not only threatens human health and crop production, but also worsens global warming.

Membrane fouling remains a persistent challenge in reverse osmosis (RO) systems. Devising effective strategies to mitigate membrane fouling has become crucial for sustainable water treatment. Here, we ...