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.
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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.
Humans rely on the ocean for food, jobs and other resources, but these systems are being stressed to the brink.
Millions of people worldwide are exposed via soil and water to arsenic, whether naturally occurring or related to pollution. Chronic exposure is linked to the formation of cancer stem cells.
In Sackett v. EPA, a suit filed by two homeowners who filled in wetlands on their property, the Supreme Court has drastically narrowed the definition of which wetlands qualify for federal protection.
As toxic water continues to spill from tailings ponds across mining developments, decades of scientific research provides evidence of how wildlife will be affected.
The tiny organisms that cause harmful blooms of algae can have a big impact on your trip to the shore. A toxicologist explains what causes these events and how to keep people and pets safe.
Many of our rivers are overloaded with nutrients from fertiliser run off and wastewater. Algal blooms, fish kills and poor water follow. One solution? Nutrient offsetting.
The drinking water systems serving over 70 million people may not meet newly proposed water quality standards. It could cost hundreds of billions of dollars to fix that.
A new study reveals wide disparities among state-issued Clean Water Act fines, and even among federal fines from regions to region. A law professor explains why it may be illegal.
Every household is more likely than not to have dusts containing PFAS chemicals at low concentrations. But how worried should we be about the risks to our personal health?
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Associate Professor in Environmental Science, Western Sydney University
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Professor Emeritus of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Adjunct professor, University of Auckland
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Postdoctoral researcher, Stanford University
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Professor of Coastal Oceanography, The University of Western Australia
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Laboratory Director/Principal Investigator in Water Research, Michigan State University
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Chief Conservation Officer, Project Seagrass & Postdoctoral Associate, Florida International University
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Directeur de recherche CNRS, Expert for Conservation Biology, Axa Chair for Functional Mountain Ecology at the École Nationale Supérieure Agronomique de Toulouse, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS)
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Associate Professor and Water Management Expert, University of South Africa
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Senior Principal Research Scientist, Oceans and Atmosphere, CSIRO
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Associate professor in marine biology, Swansea University
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PSM, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, College of Science and Engineering, James Cook University
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Professor of Marine Science and Vice President for Science Applications, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
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Associate Professor in Physics, James Cook University
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Oceanographer, The University of Western Australia
