Sediment can block sunlight from reaching underwater grasses, suffocating shellfish that rely on them for their habitat. Pollution reducing practices used in backyards, in cities and on farms can ...

A developer will enhance its sediment control measures and pay to conserve more than 60 acres of land in southeast Durham as part of a settlement with an environmental watchdog organization. In ...

Sound Rivers and the Southern Environmental Law Center are suing Clayton Properties Group, alleging a development in Southeast Durham is resulting in significant sediment pollution to nearby waterways ...

Pennsylvania American Water’s inadvertent release of large amounts of silt from the No. 7 Reservoir in Dunmore into Roaring Brook and the Lackawanna River violated the state’s Clean Streams Law and ...

CHICO — Brown and orange colored sediment polluted salmon-bearing and crop-irrigating waters of Butte Creek beginning Thursday morning, caused by a breach along the Butte Canal near Lovelock. Around 7 ...

United Way offers free suicide prevention training in Pensacola and Milton PENSACOLA, Fla. -- The United Way of West Florida will be hosting free training that teaches suicide prevention. Pensacon ...

A research team reveals that the common antibiotic sulfamethoxazole (SMX) can fundamentally reshape nitrogen cycling in ...

Detroit — Sabin Ahmed cast his fishing line into the sparkling water at Detroit's Riverside Park hoping to catch a channel catfish, his favorite because of their tender filets. It didn't matter how ...

A Southwest Georgia couple was awarded $135 million last week by a federal jury for damages caused by sediment pollution that spilled onto their property from a massive solar electricity project built ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has “no confidence” that a plan to mitigate sediment pollution overflowing from behind the Conowingo Dam in northeastern Maryland will be completed, the federal ...

Lush forests and crisp mountain air have drawn people to New York’s Adirondack Mountains for centuries. In the late 1800s, these forests were a haven for tuberculosis patients seeking the cool, fresh ...