Researchers discovered that bumblebee queens prefer hibernating in pesticide-contaminated soil, a surprising behavior that ...

Decades-old policies aimed at improving air quality may also be accelerating global climate change, warns a recent study ...

An infectious disease called melioidosis caused the death of more than 10 monkeys last month at the Hong Kong Zoological and ...

Several Kansas counties are seeing a dramatic increase in groundwater contamination. The region’s nitrate pollution comes ...

As honeybees fly, they also pick up dust and other tiny particles from the air and any surfaces they touch. Some of these ...

A leach field is the part of your septic system that filters and treats wastewater. Learn how it works and why regular ...

The dirt is clean. That simple statement was probably the important reveal at Monday’s meeting of the Permanent Building Committee for the Reading Center For Active Living project.

He says spills from oil wells and pipelines were "a recurring situation", and that he was involved in transporting ...

Houston, like many American cities, has areas with soil contaminated by non-biodegradable and persistent pollutants such as arsenic, lead, nickel and cadmium, known as heavy metals and metalloids.

Union Pacific background tests reveal no harmful chemical levels On Thursday, Union Pacific announced background soil samples ...

Despite testing, community residents expressed frustrations at a public meeting over location and historic limitations.