For the first time in 25 years, Minnesota pollution regulators will step up their oversight of thousands of feedlots across the state. The new rules could change how and when the manure amassed by ...

A torrent of news on dirty water has spilled over into next month ... manatees as part of an experimental program to help the animals since their natural food is being destroyed by water pollution.

As the number of animals stuffed onto corporate farms increases ... But it’s difficult to implement effective regulation because water pollution is technically legal under two major laws: the Clean ...

Today, fewer than one-third of the country’s 21,000-plus largest factory farms, also called concentrated animal feeding operations or CAFOs, have Clean Water Act pollution permits. In Iowa ...

When dogs given spot treatments for fleas go swimming, they release levels of pesticides dangerous to aquatic life for at ...

One way that agriculture causes water pollution is through rainwater. When it rains, pollutants such as fertilizers, animal waste, and pesticides wash from farms into waterways, contaminating the ...

That's because fish and other aquatic creatures are being affected by increasing levels of drug pollution – from ... not yet sure how this could change animals' behavior in the wild.

A group of environmentalists from Manitoba and the United States say two dairy farms planned for North Dakota will affect the ...

The animal was not part of the new ... some of it may have been dumped directly into the water. (Learn more about the threats of marine pollution.) “While I’m not at all surprised to see ...