The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered a scrap metal recycler in Watts to take action to prevent chemicals from washing into local storm drains and drifting onto the campus of a ...

This study reveals the potential of natural sludge from wetlands as an effective, low-cost material for wastewater ...

Rising temperatures are already causing a disproportionate number of females. Scientists have discovered another way environmental conditions are affecting the population growth of an endangered ...

Cypress trees remain in the wetlands and swamps of Lake Maurepas. (Wes Muller/Louisiana Illuminator) Scientists at Southeastern Louisiana University have found dangerously high levels of toxic metals ...

An international team of scientists led by DRI found evidence of Southern Hemisphere heavy metal pollution preserved in Antarctic ice cores from early Andean cultures and Spanish Colonial mining that ...

Green sea turtles are struggling because of climate change, habitat destruction, erosion and other threats. Matteo Colombo In a nest of green sea turtle eggs, the sex of the hatchlings depends on the ...

India, Pakistan, Thailand and China all have heavy concentrations of cadmium in arable soil, raising the risk of cancer and other diseases Some of the world's leading rice-producing countries are ...

Researchers from Tomsk Polytechnic University have proposed a simple and inexpensive way to monitor atmospheric air pollution ...

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Chemical pollution could be skewing the sex ratio of sea turtles by making more eggs hatch as females, putting the species at risk of extinction. Sea turtles are one of many reptiles whose sex depends ...