About a mile from Cleveland’s Lake Erie shore, in a stretch of water once among America’s most polluted, a team of conservationists just released a few dozen lake sturgeon into the Cuyahoga River.

In 2010, DeKalb County officials actively discouraged residents from getting too close to the South River. Signs were posted by the water that said the following in big, bold letters: For decades, the ...

Kai Baucom, a graduate research assistant at Pittsburg State University, lifts a handful of rocks from the bottom of the Spring River and checks for any mussels. The fish and rare mussels hiding in ...

Pollution has damaged many areas in the United States, but one Ohio river proves that time and hard work can help reverse the negative effects. The Cuyahoga River in Ohio was once so polluted by the ...

A technology using bubbles —to clean up plastic pollution in waterways could be making its United States debut at the Grand ...

Like a scar after a major injury, traces of Kepone remain buried in James River sediments — a reminder of how fragile ...

The Waterkeeper Alliance has identified a river in the country with the highest levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), and it's located in South Carolina. Residents who fish from the ...

Firefighters stand on a bridge over the Cuyahoga River to spray water on the tug Arizona as a fire, started in an oil slick on the river, engulfs docks in Cleveland on Nov. 1, 1952. About a mile from ...