The World Bank estimates that the world will produce 3.4 billion tonnes of waste a year by 2050. Read more at ...

A sewage leak at a Bronx bus depot is worse than previously reported and possibly leaking into surrounding groundwater, the Daily News has learned. Repair work on a smaller leak, first reported by The ...

In North Korea, women are referred to as "one wheel of the revolutionary cart." A popular song titled "Women Are Flowers" ...

An administration document aimed at eradicating paper straws highlights the dangers of PFAS chemicals. Their presence in tap ...

Microplastics like microfibers and microbeads escape waste-water systems. They can carry harmful chemicals into nature.

A global modeling study found that 8,500 tonnes of antibiotics from human use alone enter rivers annually, threatening ...

The Cebu City Environment and Natural Resources Office (CCENRO) is now calling for community participation and environmental protection for the parts of some city rivers that remain clean and ...

Masses of day trippers descending on rural beauty spots across the UK over the Easter weekend have been lambasted by ...

Industrial waste is turning into rock in decades, much faster than the millions of years it is thought to take for it to form naturally, research has shown.

Israeli attacks have caused secondary deaths from malnutrition and disease among others, as well as affecting vulnerable ...

It’s up to the states to start reining in the growing problem of plastic pollution, and Staten Island’s state lawmakers can help.