Researchers found that climate change induced glacial melt increases the heavy metal content and changes the microbiome of habitat-forming brown algae in Arctic fjords. As algae are at the basis of ...

They also examined the impacts of fertilizer prices and international trade barriers on nutrient runoff. Despite the Environmental Protection Agency's goal of reducing the size of the Gulf dead ...

They can also be carried to coastal waters in streams and runoff. All tested sites exceed DOH standards of 1.5 micrograms of nutrients per liter. “When nutrients are in excess, they encourage ...

Maryland is targeting five ailing watersheds for restoration — but the state’s budget crisis has put funding for the effort in doubt.

The Chesapeake and Atlantic Coastal Bays Trust Fund, which supports projects to reduce polluted runoff, could be particularly hard hit by the proposed cuts. Environmental advocates warn that the cuts ...

Grenada’s main coastal road connects its largest city St. George’s with many of the small island’s hotels and its university. Portions of the road flood during extreme events both due to high tides ...

Consequently, snow, glaciers, and permafrost are melting—all of which are contributing to coastal run-off plumes. The run-off plumes change water parameters drastically as large volumes of fresh ...