Plastic waste is increasingly causing problems for fishers. Fishnets bring up bottles, propellers get tangled in bags, water ...

World Water Day is annually observed on March 22, highlighting the importance of freshwater and raises awareness for ensuring ...

A week after the tanker crash off the English coast, officials are trying to work out the damage done — and who is going to ...

By coring the seabed at 850 m water depth in Disko Bay off Greenland's west coast, researchers from the University of ...

As the magnitude of water shortage issues arise globally, National Geographic Explorers along with the World Freshwater ...

More than 2 billion people around the world live without access to safe drinkable water, as rivers, groundwater, lakes and ...

A UNEP restoration project is helping to revive a historic canal in Kochi, India, supporting the city as it adapts to climate ...

A crackdown on sulfur in ship fuel is linked to a steep drop in thunderclouds in the Indian Ocean and South China Sea.

This strange white paste might not look like much, but it might help solve the sand shortage, while making the cement ...

NOAA warns the slivers of plastic have become “pervasive in natural and built environments” and are found in every ecosystem ...

As part of a slew of regulatory announcements made by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency last week, EPA Administrator ...

As seawater creeps further into coastlines, salt threatens to pollute the freshwater reserves that people depend on. But this brine isn’t just coming from the ocean: New research shows freshwater ...