News about Water Pollution, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Research shows that green technology innovation significantly reduces PM2.5 and PM10 levels in China's river basins, ...

The contributions of crops to river pollution differ among sub-basins. For example, potato is an important source of DIN in rivers of some upstream sub-basins. Our results may help to prioritize the ...

China has experienced a sustained decline in environmental disputes and has cemented its status as the leading authority with ...

In this paper, the high-frequency water level is estimated using multi-GNSS observations at BADO GNSS station, upstream of the Yangtze River. Firstly, we employed the classic Lomb-Scargle Periodogram ...

The Yangtze finless porpoise is one of the most endangered animals in China. Found only in China’s Yangtze River and nearby lakes, such as Poyang Lake and Tian-E-Zhou Oxbow Lake, this unique ...

Glyn Marshall of The Angling Trust fears the River Severn is deteriorating because of sewage and pollution.

Activity at Chinese ports has rebounded since US President Donald Trump and China’s leader Xi Jinping agreed to resume trade talks and put off imposing ...

Activity at Chinese ports has rebounded since U.S. President Donald Trump and China’s leader Xi Jinping agreed to resume trade talks and put off imposing massive tariffs on each other’s ...

A staff monitors container offloading in the main control room at the Yangluo Port on the Yangtze River in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province, Friday, May 23, 2025.

Testing revealed that biosolids, or treated sewage sludge commonly used as fertilizer, are a major source of PFAS pollution in the Spokane River watershed.