In urban streams, persistent pharmaceutical pollution can cause aquatic microbial communities to become resistant to drugs. So reports a new study published today in the journal Ecosphere.

Wildfires profoundly influence the unseen microbial world within our waters, directly impacting water quality and ecosystem ...

Environmental DNA (eDNA) analysis of microbial communities in a particular region’s water cycle can lead to a better understanding of why pollution is worse in some spots than others.

By Edward Carver Prochlorococcus, a genus of bacteria that’s key to oxygen production in the ocean, tends to disappear when faced with marine pollution. It lives throughout the sunlit layer of ...

Study: Discovery of plastic-degrading microbial strains isolated from the alpine and Arctic terrestrial plastisphere. Image Credit: Iurii Stepanov / Shutterstock.com. Introduction. Well over 360 ...

In this regard, researchers from Ritsumeikan University, Japan, have recently developed a self-powered, inexpensive, and floating biosensor for monitoring water quality at the input of freshwater ...

Sewage did not cause a surge in bacterial pollution at Portobello Beach which made it unsafe for swimming, according to tests. Bathers were advised to avoid the water at the Edinburgh seaside ...

The emergence of superbugs, dreaded by medical experts, is accelerated through the pollution of water, soil and air. This pollution increases exposure to antimicrobials, disrupts microbial ...

Following water quality sampling tests, known as microbial source tracking (MST), the advisory against swimming at the beach was removed on 12 July. MST uses DNA-based techniques to determine the ...