The Denver Post WASHINGTON » A federal judge on Monday struck down a Trump-era environmental rule that drastically limited federal restrictions against pollution of millions of streams, wetlands and marshes across the country.
The Biden administration had already begun the lengthy process of ...
According to recent data from the WHO, “9 out of 10 people breathe air containing high levels of pollutants.”
The data also blames the alarming death toll of 7 million people every year on outdoor and household air pollution.
It further states that “around 3 billion people – more than 40% of the w...
There are obvious reasons to care about the Earth's environment - global warming, and the litter and rubbish we can actually see are physically apparent to us.
However, the damage to our oceans is somewhat less obvious - because most of the environmental issues the seas face are submerged in the de...
The Environmental Protection Agency took responsibility Friday for inadvertently polluting a Colorado river with 1 million gallons of toxic orange wastewater while trying to clean up an abandoned gold mine.
The spill occurred Wednesday morning at a long-closed Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colo., ...
41. A swan built its nest on garbage.
42. This boy was collecting recyclable garbage in the polluted water.
43. A sea bird polluted by oil in the ocean.
44. Penguins covered with oil.
45. Homeless koala.
46.In Jiaxing, Zhejiang, China, a old man was taking a shower in the lake full of...
31. People in Sichuan, China were sadly looking at the polluted river.
32. Mexico City is one of the most densely populated cities in the world, which has a population of 20 million people.
33. The beach of Bombay is covered with garbage.
34. Plastic bags are everywhere in the ocean, e...
21. The workers in Shanghang, Fujian, China, were cleaning the dirty water in the cesspool.
22. The smoke surrounded the buildings in Beijing.
23. In Pingba, China, a boy was swimming in the polluted reservoir.
24. In Shantou, Guangdong, China, a boy was walking in the dirty water full of g...
11. An albatross died because of eating plastic in the ocean
12. The serious haze in Hong Kong forces people to take picture with another picture.
13. People sail on the Chao Lake, which was filled with alga, in Hefei, China.
14. The serious air pollution in Beijing. People have to wear mas...
The environmental impacts associated with large scale dams often have significant negative impacts on the environment. The Three Gorges Dam is no different. The creation of the dam and associated reservoir has impacts both upstream from the dam and downstream. It affects species in the area, some en...
It may be time to sound the alarm and possibly try and find a cleaning solution. A recent study shows that there is much more plastic polluting the world’s oceans than researchers have previously estimated. And the number is staggering.
In what is being described as the most comprehensive m...
Even when the sea looks clean, its surface can be flecked with tiny fragments of paint and fiberglass. That’s the finding from a study that looked for plastic pollution in the uppermost millimeter of ocean. The microscopic fragments come from the decks and hulls of boats, and they could pose a ...
Independence Day is one of block parties, barbecues, icy cold drinks, sparklers, noisemakers, fireworks, and therefore, a ton of trash. Here are a couple things to keep in mind before, during, and after your July 4th fun:
1. If you are going out in the wilderness, to a parade, or off to the beach, ...
Japan on Monday started work on an underground ice wall at the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant, freezing the soil under broken reactors to slow the build-up of radioactive water, officials said.
The wall is intended to block groundwater from nearby hillsides that has been flowing under the plant a...
Ambitious mitigation efforts, however, could decrease the pollution by 50 percent. The analysis is the very first to quantify this.
"Nitrogen is an irreplaceable nutrient and a true life-saver as it helps agriculture to feed a growing world population – but it is unfortunately also a dangerous poll...
SEATTLE—The Port of Seattle kicks off a pilot project today to reduce the amount of polluted runoff reaching Puget Sound. The Port is hosting a two-year study site for two unique metal boxes which will bloom into rain gardens and help reduce pollutants. This effort is in partnership ...
When it comes to our water footprint, the majority of us think that it’s just made up of the water that we drink and use to wash with, when actually this far from the case – only making up roughly 5% of our overall consumption. It may sound surprising but the other 95% of our water footprint, is ind...
Water bottles, drinking fountains, toilet trips and hand washing – in manyschools, it is easy to take clean water for granted.
Yet the United Nations estimates that at least 780 million people around the world do not have access to safe drinking water – more than 2.5 times the population ...
