Editors note: We need to consider the role of wastewater treatment plants in the transport of antibiotic resistant bacteria to farms and into lakes, rivers, and streams. But we also need to look at th...

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Before Oak Harbor indebts its citizens by another $100 million for a new wastewater treatment plant (more than double that including interest), someone should suggest a ...

Jul 8, 2011 (CIDRAP News) – The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) today confirmed that the death of an Arizona resident who had traveled to Germany is linked to Europe's sprout-relat...

Nanotechnology was supposed to revolutionize the world, making us healthier and producing cleaner energy. But it’s starting to look more like a nightmare.

Nanomaterials—tiny particles as little as 1/...

Chicago Tribune | link to original - At a time of rising concern over pathogens in produce, Congress is moving to eliminate the only national program that regularly screens U.S. fruits and vegetables ...

Gudgeon downstream of a wastewater-processing plant had swollen abdomens and other abnormalities.D. Gonseau

Consumers who flush unwanted contraceptives down the drain have long been blamed for giving...

A strange new menace has joined the long list of threats to corals, the tiny reef-building animals that create important habitat in our oceans.

A bacterium that attacks humans is also killing off a s...

The Chronicle | Link to originalThis was to be the year Toowoomba's taps were to flow with recycled wastewater, but the people would not let that happen.

At a poll on July 29, 2006, with the world wa...

World Environmental News | Link to originalSignificant levels of the world's most-used herbicide have been detected in air and water samples from two U.S. farm states, government scientists said on We...

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Male fish that used to be feminized after chemicals, such as the pharmaceutical ethinylestradiol, made it through the Boulder, C...