The persistent contamination of terrestrial ecosystems with heavy metals, hydrocarbons, pesticides and emerging pollutants ...

The algal blooms increasingly seen in Canadian lakes have been linked to both nutrient pollution from agricultural runoff and climate change. However, a new Concordia-led study using DNA sequencing of ...

Environmental monitoring is increasingly being asked to look beyond conventional chemical pollution.For decades, water ...

Nitrate pollution is a growing global environmental challenge due to the extensive use of fertilizer. A study published in ...

A team of scientists from the Chinese Academy of Sciences has introduced a groundbreaking nature-based solution to tackle global soil pollution—a crisis threatening ecosystems, agriculture, and human ...

A research team has developed a synthetic microbial consortium that completely reduces soluble uranium [U(VI)] to insoluble U(IV) within 48 hours, showing nearly twice the efficiency of a ...

Stephen King’s The Mist got a memorable Frank Darabont adaptation in 2007. Nearly two decades later, the premise feels oddly ...

Microbes in water are like invisible travellers – and some carry disease with them. Keeping the water that flows through our treatment plants, rivers and taps healthy and safe from microbial infection ...

Somewhere in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, a stray bottle cap drifts through sunlit water, invisible to anyone above the ...