The Supreme Court drastically reduced federal protection for wetlands in 2023. Two environmental lawyers explain how private businesses and nongovernment organizations can help fill the gap.
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Severe weather such as drought and floods is contributing to cholera outbreaks in Africa.
US cities are doing green infrastructure, but in bits and pieces. Today’s climate-driven floods require a much broader approach to create true sponge cities that are built to soak up water.
Lawsuits are inevitable, but an environmental lawyer explains why the EPA’s new power plant regulations are on solid ground.
We sampled sewage sludge from 13 wastewater treatment plants across three states. We found every resident adds microplastics to farmland, in dried sewage sludge (biosolids) used as fertiliser.
Phosphorus and nitrogen contribute to water pollution and cause harmful algal blooms. New research shows how mats of floating flower beds can take advantage of these nutrients while cleaning the water.
The inability of city authorities to enforce land-use regulations has allowed people to carry out ecologically unfriendly activities along the water bodies.
Your washing machine is polluting the ocean.
When ships sink, they add artificial structures to the seafloor that can quickly become diverse, ecologically important underwater communities.
This year’s Blue Drop Audit report of water quality in South Africa has found that 46% of water supply systems are contaminated and over two thirds of wastewater treatment plants are close to failure.
Researchers are finding alarming concentrations of persistent pollutants such as PFAS in Australian dolphins. These record-breaking levels are cause for concern.
Many mountain lakes in the Pyrenees have turned green, a phenomenon that is a warning about the multiple pressures on ecosystems.
‘Living materials’ made with genetically engineered bacteria and Jell-O-like gel could make pollutants in water bodies nontoxic.
Simply trying to avoid synthetic clothing won’t fix our microfibre pollution problem
The largest lake in the UK and Ireland has been blighted by toxic blue-green algae.
Developers will no longer have to offset nutrient pollution from new housing projects – the UK government say this won’t degrade water quality.
A pipeline that has carried Canadian oil and gas across Wisconsin and Michigan for 70 years has become a symbol of fossil fuel politics and a test of local regulatory power.
New restrictions on PFAS and other potentially hazardous chemicals in Australia present an opportunity for industry to develop alternatives for new, safe and clean products.
Seagrasses need light to remain resilient to marine heatwaves – water pollution disrupts that balance.
Urban rivers and creeks have bounced back from early colonial use as convenient waste dumps. But the restoration work isn’t done yet, as Melbourne’s Darebin Creek shows.
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Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
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Adjunct professor, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
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Professor Emeritus of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Professor of Marine Science, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
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Postdoctoral researcher, Stanford University
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Lecturer in Sustainablity, Fashion and Retail, University of Leeds
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PSM, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University
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Oceanographer, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Principal Research Scientist, Environment, CSIRO
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Professor of Coastal Oceanography, The University of Western Australia
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Associate Professor in Physics, James Cook University
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Laboratory Director/Principal Investigator in Water Research, Michigan State University
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Director, Ocean and Coastal Policy Center, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Professor of Marine Science, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
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Professor of Marine Science and Vice President for Science Applications, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
