Plastic pollution has long been a global environmental concern, but a new study conducted in the UK has revealed that plastic litter in rivers may be more than just an eyesore: it could facilitate the ...

A new study is linking air pollution to the global amount of antibiotic resistance, when medicines used to treat bacterial infections become less effective. Scientists found a connection between the ...

Acid rain from fossil fuel pollution may be quietly training soil bacteria to become longer-lived, more transmissible, and more deadly, according to a new study in the journal New Contaminants that ...

Particles of plastic float in the ocean. Microplastics are able to carry pathogens from land to parts of the ocean they would normally never reach, a UC Davis study found. (Getty) Microplastics are a ...

Climate change is fueling an increasing number of marine heat waves across the globe. When this intensifying heat is coupled with pollution — especially sewage, nitrogen fertilizer agricultural runoff ...

Scientists at the University of Stirling have developed a new method of monitoring the presence of pathogens in rivers polluted by wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). The number of discharges from ...

As air pollution levels surge across cities worldwide, the toll on human respiratory health has become increasingly evident. Fine particulate matter (PM2.5), nitrogen dioxide, and ozone infiltrate the ...

Microplastics are a pathway for pathogens on land to reach the ocean, with likely consequences for human and wildlife health, according to a new study. This study connects microplastic pollution in ...