water pollution

Tough new EPA rules would force coal-fired power plants to capture emissions or shut down

Politics
Amanda Smith

WASHINGTON (AP) — Coal-fired power plants would be forced to capture smokestack emissions or shut down under a rule issued Thursday by ...

UN experts decry water woes in Guadeloupe and say scientists and activists are being censored

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — U.N. independent experts are denouncing chronic water cuts in the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe, adding ...

Latest EPA assessment shows almost no improvement in river and stream nitrogen pollution

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The nation’s rivers and streams remain stubbornly polluted with nutrients that contaminate drinking water and fuel a gigantic ...

Seagrass resurgence offers ray of hope for Florida’s hard-hit manatees

U.S.
Amanda Smith

A picturesque expanse of water along Florida’s space coast is offering a modicum of hope for the state’s embattled manatees as wildlife ...

Quarter of world’s freshwater fish species at risk of extinction, researchers warn

Science
Dr. Sarah Adams

Thousands of species of freshwater fish are at risk of extinction, the International Union for Conservation of Nature said in a Monday ...