Researchers explain how nitrate from farming and fish ponds moves through water and pollutes freshwater lakes.

For decades, the development of Suffolk County has progressed, despite a significant handicap to the county’s infrastructure—a lack of sewers. While this shortcoming has stymied economic growth, a new ...

Nitrogen pollution could intensify global water scarcity threefold by 2050, scientists warn in a recently published paper. In addition, “newly emerging pollutants,” such as microplastics, heavy metals ...

Efforts to cut the amount of nitrogen pollution released into Long Island Sound by wastewater, fertilizer, and out-of-date sewage plants and septic systems are continuing to help improve water quality ...

Claire Carlson ’23 was a 2022-23 Environmental Ethics Fellow with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are her own. Improper dumping and waste disposal from corporations impacts the ...