#water pollution

Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network This organization is transforming piles of trash into a gorgeous way of fighting river pollution. The Recycled Island Foundation has been collecting litter from the Maas River in Rotterdam and recycling it into floating islands that benefit

Author: Stephen Ornes / Source: Science News for Students On a clear, sunny Tuesday afternoon, last August, Andreas Fath climbed out of a river in Paducah, Ky. A small crowd was on hand to witness his setting a new world record. This man had just finished swimming the entire length of the

Boyan Slat is a 23-year-old Dutch inventor and entrepreneur who started building engineering projects since when he was 2 and first truly impressed the world by securing a Guinness World Record at the age of 14 when launched 213 water rockets simultaneously.  Now, Slat is aiming for a much bigger

Author: McKinley Corbley / Source: Good News Network In a couple of years time, people from all over the world will be able to judge the cleanliness of their water just by taking a picture of it with their smart phone. The collaborative project, which is being developed by scientists and

Author: Sharon Oosthoek / Source: Science News for Students Dirty water can leave a fish pooped. Living downstream from a waste-treatment plant made fish work at least 30 percent harder to survive, a new study finds. Graham Scott is a biologist in Canada at McMaster University in Hamilton,