RMIT University have engineered a highly effective method to extract microplastics from wastewater by combining microbubbles ...

A San Francisco tech company turned building wastewater into a craft beer hit—and even skeptics are chugging it.

Not long after COVID-19 began spreading in the spring of 2020, a Cambridge startup helped launch a new era of disease ...

Toxic “forever” chemicals are seeping into the water Americans drink every day. The more we learn about the potential health ...

Scientists at Scripps Research have been awarded two grants totalling $2 million to scale up global infectious disease tracking ...

Detecting infectious disease threats early and responding quickly can dramatically alter the course of an infectious outbreak.

Ammonia rarely makes headlines, but much of modern life depends on it. The compound of nitrogen and hydrogen is the key ingredient in the fertilizers that help feed roughly half of the world's ...

UC Merced researchers successfully measured nicotine use from products such as cigarettes and vaping pens in Central Valley ...

Every time someone scrubs a pot or wipes down a countertop, their kitchen sponge sheds tiny plastic particles that wash ...

The White House recently endorsed monitoring sewage for evidence of drug use. Critics fear such efforts could violate privacy and stigmatize neighborhoods.

Three Texas residents pleaded guilty Thursday to falsifying wastewater test results to make it seem like the water was clean enough to discharge into rivers and streams in the state. Derek McCoy, 52, ...

One of Houston’s 39 wastewater treatment plants, which were not a part of the criminal investigation. Two people from the Houston area have pleaded guilty to falsifying wastewater test results at a ...