Growing concerns about water scarcity and climate change have given rise to a new branch of research that has found its way to Clemson University and could help deal with some the globe’s biggest environmental challenges.

Clarkson University to lead a collaborative effort to bring public awareness and engagement to the Hudson River and its surrounding waterways.

Using a new imaging technique, National Institutes of Health researchers have found that the biological machinery that builds DNA can insert molecules into the DNA strand that are damaged as a result of environmental exposures. These damaged molecules trigger cell death that produces some human diseases, according to the researchers. The work, appearing online Nov. 17 in the journal Nature, provides a possible explanation for how one type of DNA damage may lead to cancer, diabetes, hypertension, cardiovascular and lung disease, and Alzheimer’s disease.

Thermo Fisher Scientific has developed a simple, reliable and robust method for detecting dissolved gases in water using a gas chromatograph equipped with an autosampler and an electron flame ionization detector (FID).

Understanding how viruses attack giant algal blooms may help us understand their role in fixing global carbon.

Lake Erie has become increasingly susceptible to large blooms of toxin-producing cyanobacteria since 2002, potentially complicating efforts to rein in the problem in the wake of this year's Toledo drinking water crisis, according to a new study led by University of Michigan researchers.

Previously undocumented in North American rivers, concentrations of microplastic particles in the St. Lawrence found to be as high as in the world’s most contaminated ocean sediments.

A microbe developed to clean up nuclear waste and patented by a Michigan State University researcher has just been improved.

Gas leaks from faulty wells linked to contamination in some groundwater.

Discovery of three new bacteria that could break down PCBs more effectively.