SAN DIEGO, Calif. — Voted into law a half-century ago, the Clean Water Act of 1972 is still far from achieving its ambitious goals. The landmark law aimed to make U.S. waters safe for swimming and ...
LORAIN, Ohio — The Black River powered Lorain’s industrial economy for generations. But by the 1980s, it had earned a grim distinction: one of the worst “toxic hotspots” in the Great Lakes region.
The Waterkeeper Alliance has identified a river in the country with the highest levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and it's located in South Carolina. Residents who fish from the ...
A new study by the Shedd Aquarium has found that the Chicago River system continues to recover from pollution, as evidenced by the fish species that have been spawning in the river system. A report on ...
The Chicago River was once a heavily polluted mess, a source of deadly diseases like cholera and typhoid fever. The waterway was so dirty that engineers famously reversed its direction in 1900 so it ...
This story was modified to include additional information. Fish-eating gulls and terns nesting on Michigan shoreline areas known to have long-standing industrial contamination reproduce less, have ...
The Danube River tells a devastating tale of environmental degradation spanning multiple decades. At 2850 km, the second longest river in Europe and the most international river in the world with 19 ...
About a mile from Cleveland’s Lake Erie shore, in a stretch of water once among America’s most polluted, a team of conservationists just released a few dozen lake sturgeon into the Cuyahoga River.
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