There are many types of marine pollution. Ocean water covers more than 70 percent of the Earth, and only in recent decades have we begun to understand how humans impact this watery habitat.

Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

Oil refineries release billions of pounds of pollution into waterways each year, according to regulatory data. NPR found that pollution is concentrated near places where people of color live.

An analysis of 500 watersheds found levels of organic carbon, phosphorus, and other pollutants up to 103 times higher after a ...

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing to strengthen a rule governing water pollution from coal plants. The move could lead more plants to close or switch to gas.

The Clean Water Act has reached its 50th anniversary. Still befuddling federal regulators is nonpoint-source pollution — a technocratic term describing pesticides, oil, fertilizers, toxins ...

The Environment Agency will receive a cash injection of more than £189 million this financial year of 2025/26.

Water pollution across UK surged by nearly a third and highest in decade. Only a third of survey respondents believe their supplier will take the necessary steps to address water pollution.

A new bill, SB-601, aims to enshrine the Clean Water Act of 1972 into California law, ensuring state water pollution laws cover the same waterways—wetlands, creeks, streams, rivers, and lakes ...