Rapid population growth and urbanization have raised concerns over stormwater runoff contamination. Studies on watersheds indicate that excess nutrients, specifically nitrate -- nitrogen and soluble ...

SEATTLE — Environmentalists are celebrating the expansion of an ongoing project designed to clean up stormwater entering western Washington's waterways. Developer Mark Grey said the seeds of the idea ...

I spent last week in the US Virgin Islands, collecting samples to reconstruct records of sediment runoff from the steep mountainsides that surround sparkling bays ringing the island of St. John. When ...

Water quality in the Northeast, Upper Mississippi River Basin and Great Lakes Basin are at the highest risk in the U.S. as nitrogen runoff increases with more intense rainfall, a new study shows.

Spatial distributions of the actual evaporation in the source region of the Yellow River: annual amounts from 1990 to 2017 ((a)(d)(g)(j)), anomalies from 1990 to 2002 ((b)(e)(h)(k)) and anomalies from ...

In the Gulf of Mexico is an ecological dead zone, caused by algal blooms at the mouth of the Mississippi River. Warmer ocean temperatures provide the perfect conditions for algae to grow out of ...

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