Every year, the textile industry uses 1.3 trillion gallons of water to dye garments – enough to fill 2 million Olympic-sized swimming pools. Most of this water, loaded with harmful chemicals and dyes, ...

When the small plane he was riding in flew over a closed textile factory several months ago, Bill Stangler saw two slime-covered waste lagoons on the edge of the Broad River north of Columbia. The ...

Stumped by high levels of PFAS contamination in Chapel Hill and Pittsboro drinking water, Duke researchers used new methods ...

A textile plant that has long drawn the ire of environmentalists for its history of pollution violations along the Ogeechee River in eastern Georgia announced this week that it plans to shut down. The ...

The platform launched an open-source blueprint for “near-net-zero” textile manufacturing in India, developed under its Future ...

FOREARTH aims to eliminate virtually all water usage from fabric printing and contributes to lowering the environmental impact of the fashion industry Development Background Traditional analog textile ...

Researchers at University of Toronto Engineering have observed that handwashing synthetic fabrics in water with higher total ...

Microplastics, plastics less than 5 millimeters in length, are becoming a growing concern due to their ubiquity and persistence in the environment and potential effects on ecological and human health.

In March, Ghanaian-British athlete Yvette Tetteh announced her commitment to swim 450 kilometers down the Volta River, a major river system in Ghana. The activist and agribusiness leader swam under ...