A new study says pollution of all types is killing 9 million people a year. About three-quarters of that is air pollution. The release of the study's findings on Tuesday reveals that overall pollution ...

A new UN report outlines how vanishing lakes, overdrawn aquifers, and rapidly melting glaciers are pushing billions toward acute water shortages and adding pressure to food systems worldwide. Stacey ...

Water resources worldwide are increasingly approaching a state that can be conceptualized as “global water bankruptcy”—a condition in which freshwater ...

Human activity has pushed the world into an era of “global water bankruptcy”, as experts call for an urgent, science-based transformation. A new report from the United Nations University (UNU) warns ...

United Nations researchers say the planet has blown past a simple “water crisis” and into something more structural: a kind of hydrological insolvency where humanity is drawing down natural reserves ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Photo Credit: iStock A new report warned that the worsening water crisis affecting both the United States and Mexico is not just ...

In a world increasingly threatened by contaminated water and chemical pollution, a young Nigerian scientist is standing at the forefront of innovation. Motunrayo Oladele, a doctoral researcher and ...

When pollution gets bad enough in the rivers supplying Iowa’s largest city with drinking water, it costs Des Moines around $16,000 a day to run a special system to filter out dangerous nitrates. It’s ...