Merced’s Wastewater Treatment Plant plays a vital role in protecting the environment as well as humans as treated water and ...

According to the CDC, nearly three million people in the U.S. get antibiotic resistant infections every year, and around ...

Gary Zrelak, director of operations for the Greater New Haven Water Pollution Control Authority, wielded a several-foot-long ...

Bacteria levels more than 1,000 times the legal limit are what Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee says are being released at a wastewater treatment plant in Crosby.

Humans have used their own waste as fertilizer for thousands of years, with varying degrees of success. In King County, it’s ...

When the trucks don’t arrive in time at a sewage plant near Cutler Bay, the smell from 350 tons of tarry black muck leftover ...

The City and County of Honolulu’s Department of Environmental Services says that a recent test of an effluent sample taken from Kailua Regional Wastewater Treatment Plant is within the daily permit ...

Every year, US dairy producers churn out billions of pounds of cheese—over 14 billion in 2023 alone. As that cheese heads to ...

The below chart from UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital outlines the normal range of beats per minute for resting heart rate, based on age. Target heart rate refers to a range of heart beats per ...

Jan. 30, 2025 — Studies of sediment cores from the sea floor and the coastal regions surrounding the Aegean Sea show that humans contaminated the environment with lead early on in antiquity ...

Biofilms are clusters of microorganisms that stick to non-biological surfaces, such as rocks in a stream, as well as to surfaces on plants (roots) or in animals (epithelium). These clusters are ...

Microbiology is the study of microscopic organisms, such as bacteria, viruses, archaea, fungi and protozoa. This discipline includes fundamental research on the biochemistry, physiology ...