Illegal marijuana farmers have been leasing or buying land to grow cannabis in Oregon. The illicit growers in Oregon have been leaving behind garbage and drained water resources. To tackle the ...

In 1997, Captain Charles Moore first discovered the “Great Pacific Garbage Patch,” the largest accumulation of plastic waste in the ocean. Since then, scientists have documented how plastic has ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Scientists discovered a tiny hero working hard to keep our oceans clean: a plant-eating fungus. Although the study certainly shows the marine fungus can and will break down plastic, ...

A floating garbage city in the middle of the ocean may soon come to life. With the use of an AI-image generating tool, it could be built in the depths of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, as reported ...

Researchers explain how nitrate from farming and fish ponds moves through water and pollutes freshwater lakes.

Antibiotic factories release resistance genes at levels 100x higher than city sewage. Pharmaceutical pollution is fueling ...

Claire Carlson ’23 was a 2022-23 Environmental Ethics Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Improper dumping and waste disposal from corporations impacts the ...

Nitrogen pollution could intensify global water scarcity threefold by 2050, scientists warn in a recently published paper. In addition, “newly emerging pollutants,” such as microplastics, heavy metals ...