HONOLULU (KHON2) — Surfrider Kauai just completed its most difficult and fulfilling cleanups of the year which removed 9,000 pounds of marine debris from Kauai’s remote coastlines. Operation Airlift ...

The dispersal of radioactive wastewater from the Fukushima-Daiichi reactor disaster site to the Pacific Ocean is “in line with international safety standards” according to a task force set up by the ...

As industrial development and agricultural activities expand, the contamination of water and soil with toxic heavy metals like chromium, arsenic, cadmium, and lead poses a severe and persistent threat ...

Genetically engineered bacteria can not only degrade plastic waste, but they can convert it into valuable industrial chemicals. There are still unknowns -- for example, how to do this at scale and how ...

Due to these challenges, there is an urgent need to explore integrated strategies that simultaneously reduce pollution and carbon emissions in WWTPs. Researchers from Tsinghua University, the Chinese ...

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Odorless and colorless, methane is a gas that is easy to miss—but it’s one of the most important contributors to ...

The Packaging Reduction and Recycling Infrastructure Act (PRRIA) is working its way through the state Legislature, having passed the Senate and with Assembly majority support before time ran out.

Delhi, as we know, faces multiple environmental challenges, including high particulate pollution levels, rising temperatures, ...

Rachel Feltman: Cape Cod’s ponds and bays have suffered from decades of pollution. But scientific detective work has finally pinpointed the worst culprit: human urine. When household septic systems ...

Close to 50 community members gathered in Wyandanch Wednesday evening to discuss concerns about environmental threats to their families and hopefully hear next steps from EPA officials and New York's ...

Imagine a world where the air is clean, the water is pure, and wildlife thrives in natural habitats untouched by human waste. Now, imagine the reality, especially as we approach World Conservation Day ...