In a world searching for more sustainable ways to manage waste, the promise of turning "trash into treasure" is hard to ignore. Take nitrate pollution, for example. Every year, nitrogen fertilizers ...

For decades, pollution clean-up has relied on expensive technologies, large-scale engineering projects, and chemical treatments. Now, scientists are exploring a different ally in the fight against ...

Mangrove forests around the world provide a largely overlooked nitrogen-pollution cleanup service — one that, if humans had to pay for it, would cost $8.7 billion per year, a new study estimates.

The clean-up of a Devon brook hit by pollution has finally been completed after tonnes of contaminated water and sludge were removed, but the investigation into what caused the incident is continuing.