The Rundown Some $630 billion is needed for sewage treatment and stormwater control. A bill in Congress would require a ...

The wind carried those microscopic particles hundreds of miles across the Great Lakes, dulling the skies above Detroit, Green ...

The Rundown Army Corps plans to evaluate a novel dredging project in a Kansas reservoir. Bureau of Reclamation finalizes a ...

The five-year incidence rate for cancer in Palo Alto County is 658.1, far higher than the national five-year average of 442 ...

Brine is generally defined as water with a salt concentration higher than 50 parts per thousand, though some brines can be several times saltier Average salinity of the world’s oceans is roughly 35 ...

Water, or lack thereof, is often at the frontlines of conflict. By documenting water conflict across history, Dr. Peter Gleick, chief scientist and president emeritus of the Pacific Institute, ...

As they span significant areas of Asia, Europe and the Americas, karst landscapes cover some 15 percent of the Earth’s land mass. Scientists estimate that these areas of porous bedrock are home to as ...

Even though the country is growing, U.S. water withdrawals dropped to the lowest level since before 1970 with steep declines for municipal and electric power sectors, according to a U.S. Geological ...

The $84 million cleanup of metropolitan Detroit’s Lower Rouge River, one of the Midwest’s most polluted waterways, has begun. A year’s worth of rain fell in one day in the United Arab Emirates and ...