Pesticide contamination in aquatic ecosystems has cascading impacts on organisms throughout trophic levels in the food web.

For decades, water utilities have relied on giant tanks filled with ion-exchange resin beads to remove perchlorate, a harmful ...

APOLLO BEACH, Fla. — The Florida Aquarium Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Center used a brand-new treatment for one of the worst turtle injuries the staff said it has seen. The treatment is a topical ...

The threat comes from two rare but potentially deadly pathogens: Vibrio vulnificus, often referred to as "flesh-eating ...

UCSF scientists discovered that a protein found in bullfrogs protected mice from one of the world's deadliest natural poisons ...

Humans cannot fully heal spinal cord injuries. When the spinal cord is damaged, the body's immune system often spirals into ...

Levels of the pollutant, phosphorus, more than 100 times the recommended level for healthy river ecosystems were recorded by ...

As the football fans stockpile their half-time snacks, our expert ranks her favourite crisps according to price and flavour ...

Environmental DNA contained in a small sample of water, sand or even air can reveal the presence of people, wildlife and pathogens, helping researchers track where they’ve migrated.

A tiny but powerful pollutant traced to car tires has quietly worked its way through the Hillsborough River, according to new research. Over a 10 month stretch, Florida International University ...

ATLANTA — Georgia Environmental Protection Division say a chemical release at the City of Atlanta Department of Watershed Management’s South River Water Reclamation Center didn’t cause a fish kill on ...