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Thursday’s weather could act as trigger for those with asthma

It's been decades since residents of a tiny Rhode Island neighborhood found themselves dealing with tap water tainted by gasoline leaking from tanks under service stations a few hundred yards from their homes

THE number of Scots who support the rollout of low-emission zones (LEZs) has grown since last year, a poll suggests ...

Speaking at the UK River Summit, Philip Duffy said officials do not want to reveal the true ‘embarrassing’ environmental picture

Potential impacts on groundwater resources has led to the rejection of Glencore's carbon capture storage project in the Great Artesian Basin.

Settlement for disaster that resulted in plumes of toxic chemicals in Ohio town includes funds for cleanup costs

For 140 years, gold mines in Johannesburg, South Africa have been leaking wastewater contaminated with heavy metals. The acid mine drainage from Johannesburg’s estimated 278 abandoned mines and 200 mine dumps includes uranium (a radioactive metal), toxic arsenic, copper, cobalt, nickel, lead and zinc. Acid mine drainage can pollute land…

Nobody really knows how much plastic is in the world’s rivers or where it accumulates.

About 44% of seabird species are known to eat plastic and some are particularly badly affected, causing malnutrition and new diseases.