Kai Baucom, a graduate research assistant at Pittsburg State University, lifts a handful of rocks from the bottom of the Spring River and checks for any mussels. The fish and rare mussels hiding in ...

Change swept through Lorain County in 2025, bringing environmental victories, economic development and infrastructure ...

In 2010, DeKalb County officials actively discouraged residents from getting too close to the South River. Signs were posted by the water that said the following in big, bold letters: For decades, the ...

About a mile from Cleveland’s Lake Erie shore, in a stretch of water once among America’s most polluted, a team of conservationists just released a few dozen lake sturgeon into the Cuyahoga River.

The Waterkeeper Alliance has identified a river in the country with the highest levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and it's located in South Carolina. Residents who fish from the ...

New research backs up the concerns of people who live near the Tijuana River and have long complained that foul air wafting from the polluted waterway is making them sick — irritating their eyes and ...

Firefighters stand on a bridge over the Cuyahoga River to spray water on the tug Arizona as a fire, started in an oil slick on the river, engulfs docks in Cleveland on Nov. 1, 1952. (Getty Images) ...