The world’s potentially largest chemistry experiment is underway with school groups across the gloabe testing the acidity of water in local rivers and lakes as a part of the International Year of Chemistry 2011. The International Union of Pure and [...]
Water rates increased by an average of 9.4 percent for residential consumers in 30 U.S. metropolitan areas, according to an article by Circle of Blue. The average was taken from medium level water consumers (approximately 100 g/day/person) in the 20 [...]
A new song from Studio 20, the graduate school of journalism at New York University, outlines the debate around fracking for natural gas in the United States. This catchy tune is meant to highlight the pros and cons of the [...]
Fish in the Hudson River evolved resistance to toxins in the water in a matter of decades, a new study finds.
The Atlantic tomcod, a bottom feeding fish, adapted to its increasingly polluted environment filled with polychlorinated biphenyls, or PCBs, dumped in the river by two General Electric facilities upstream.