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

It’s one of the more serious emerging pollution threats to the Great Lakes, which have a long history of manmade threats and ...

Cebu City rivers are dying, if not outright dead and household waste is emerging as one of the top contributors to their ...

Arkansas researchers are pushing for a multi-tiered approach to tackle the plastic pollution crisis on Earth Day 2025.

Plastic is made from chemicals derived from fossil fuels, the burning of which drives the climate crisis by producing ...

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

Most of Germany’s rivers are in poor condition. Pollutants from industry and agriculture contaminate the water and lead to ...

Despite achieving Unesco biosphere status on the basis of its marine reserves, hazardous chemical contaminants pollute the ...

As examples of how the process of changing the rules and standards ... Technology standards for air and water pollution controls have tightened over time because of advances that improved performance ...

UNEP drives capacity and leadership in sound management of chemicals and waste while working to improve ways to reduce waste through circularity and pollutants released to the air, water, soil and the ...

Now their waste water is being used by a biotech firm to make pollution-busting bacterial ... so wherever there's a take-away or a brewery for example, we can grow them." Dr Charles said there ...

The decision came nearly four decades after the Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) filed a case in 1988 alleging violations of the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act. The case ...