Virginia teenager Mia Heller’s filtration system harnesses the power of ferrofluid, a magnetic oil that binds to microplastics in flowing water ...

Locals are hoping that astrotourism will create sustainable jobs in an area struggling with high unemployment. A unique ...

Pittsburgh has reinvented itself from a steel powerhouse to a hub for health care and education. But the city’s industrial past left a hidden legacy: toxic compounds like benzene and toluene in the ...

A potentially huge underground reservoir of freshwater beneath the Great Salt Lake is coming into sharper focus with a new study that used airborne electromagnetic (AEM) surveys to X-ray geologic ...

A DEP study found that wastewater samples from landfills that take fracking waste were mostly below drinking water guidelines for radioactivity.