From floods to just centimetres of water. Scientists have warned of fish kills in the difficult conditions caused by low water levels. Extreme heat and low water levels cause reduced oxygen in lakes and rivers — this makes it difficult for fish to breathe and survive. Picture: Larry Cummins<
Outside the wastewater treatment plant in the Iron Range town of Aurora, a small trailer could hold clues to solving a big environmental problem facing northern Minnesota — how to protect wild rice from sulfate, a pollutant released by iron ore mines, wastewater treatment plants and other in
Like seemingly every other facet of American society these days, when it comes to both the national media and the state’s press, the assignment of blame for the City of Jackson’s water and sewer system woes falls into two distinct camps.
The first camp blames those woes almost entire
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management set a hearing next month to receive comments from the public on a air permit application sought by Pilgrim's Pride for a proposed rendering plant on Steele Station Road.
The announcement came days after the executive director of Coosa Ri
Location map of Tianjin; The city is located on northern China’s “Gold Coast” on the Bohai Gulf, some 140km to the southeast of Beijing.
Schematic of a DAF unit. This treatment system was chosen for its ability to deal with the algal loads which periodically affect the source water
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On September 6, 2022, the U.S EPA’s long-awaited proposed rule to list perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) and perluoroocanesulfonic acid (PFOS) as CERCLA hazardous substances was published in the Federal Register (Proposed Rule).[1] This triggers a 60-day public notice and comment perio
After an unprecedented harmful algae bloom first turned San Francisco Bay a murky brown color and then littered its shores with dead fish, many people assumed it was yet another climate disaster to add to the list, along with extreme drought, wildfires and heat waves.
While scientists su
As Volusia County grows, so too must its capacity for dealing with waste.
Officials say a three-component effort to upgrade and expand the wastewater treatment plant in DeBary will do that and then some.
Design work on the Southwest Regional Water Reclamation Facility project beg
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