Senior projects reporter Tony Bartelme reports that harmful algae blooms are a growing worldwide menace, and a lab in Charleston is in the thick of the search to identify unbelievably dangerous toxins.
Florence's floodwaters breached a dam holding back a large reservoir at a Wilmington power plant Friday, and coal ash from an adjacent dump could be flowing into the Cape Fear River.
A four-part series examining a wastewater infrastructure crisis and the people searching for solutions. A joint project of the Montgomery Advertiser and the new website, Southerly.
Coca-Cola, Walmart and other big multinationals pledged on Thursday to help reduce plastic pollution in the world's oceans in support of a campaign by five of the G7 industrialized nations.
Scientists are noticing fewer flying insects that aren't really pests, like moths and butterflies. A variety of reasons are suspected but they all lead back to what humans are doing do the environment.
What to do with all those non-recyclable plastic forks, toys and broken patio chairs in our garbage? Here's a look at the pros and cons of incineration and where the technology is going.
The damage to coal ash sites from Hurricane Florence demonstrates how a community's vulnerability to natural disasters is closely linked to how stringent environmental regulations are.
"Henderson has mustered sufficient circumstantial evidence of a retaliatory motive to prevent summary judgment," reads an opinion by Circuit Judge Jane B. Stranch as part of a three-judge panel.
It's been a few years since developers began constructing an $US8 billion neighborhood on the site of the former San Francisco Shipyard, and residents are still complaining about possible exposure to hazardous material.
A settlement involving the safety of workers at the Hanford nuclear site is what Washington state Attorney General Bob Ferguson called a "historic victory" Wednesday.
Detroit public schools tested drinking water on the majority of its campuses and found that samples in 57 of 86 schools tested as having copper or lead levels in excess of legally accepted limits.
The number of hogs and poultry killed in Hurricane Florence flooding is already double the casualties from Matthew in 2016, and the losses are expected to mount this week.
More than 50,000 pounds of contaminants have been recovered in the contaminated, 1-acre area being cleaned up at the former Velsicol Chemical plant in St. Louis.
The DEQ will fly the drone over Lake Margrethe near Camp Grayling to locate springs that could be carrying PFAS contamination from past firefighting activities.
A federal Superfund cleanup site in Cheraw flooded when Hurricane Florence blew through this week, raising fears that cancer-causing pollution could spread.
A new study has pinpointed a potential link between PFAS – a controversial group of man-made chemicals – and elevated levels of hyperthyroidism in domestic cats.
