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The researchers say the finding has implications for lithium mining technologies and wastewater assessment and management.

The findings also show the limits of relying only on land-based solutions. Human interventions like embankments, riverbed alterations, and upstream dams have often made things worse by restricting freshwater flows.

PFAS, also known as "forever chemicals", have been found in beer. Beers brewed in regions where PFAS levels in the municipal water supply were high also tended to have higher PFAS levels in their beer.

AI analysis has identified genes that affect nitrogen use efficiency in corn, which could mean cost savings and better crops for farmers.

The trend of hypersalinity in coastal lagoons is global, occurring most often in arid and semi-arid coastal lagoons, such as those in Australia.

The finding questions the long-held theory among scientists that the viruses help regulate the negative effects of these blooms.

Researchers calculated that about 8,500 tons of antibiotics – nearly one-third of what people consume annually – end up in river systems around the world each year even after in many cases passing through wastewater systems.

The study focused on two main areas: metals in fertilized agricultural soils and estrogens in aquatic systems, including the Scheldt estuary.

An innovative outbreak detection program that tracks disease-causing viruses in wastewater identified the measles virus in Houston samples collected in early January 2025, before cases were reported.

A research team at Washington University in St. Louis has developed an approach for removing selenium from water using a method called iron electrocoagulation.