Phosphorus pollution can linger for decades in soils and streams, shaping water quality long after sources are reduced.

Phosphorus threatens a key bay in Lake Champlain. WAMC’s North Country Bureau Chief Pat Bradley reports on the Lake Champlain Basin program and other stakeholder’s efforts to stem the pollution.

Wastewater in the Halstad city facility, pictured Feb. 15, is treated using bacteria. By adjusting the bacterial activity, the city reduced phosphorus and nitrogen in the treated wastewater released ...

FAYETTEVILLE-- Until recently, microwave popcorn was among the threats to drinking water, a scientific conference in Fayetteville was told Tuesday. More common and persistent threats to water quality ...

This raises the question of how and where such high concentrations of phosphorus in water occurred on Earth billions of years ago. Earth scientist Craig Walton has a new answer: large soda lakes ...

"We are giving up something that has value and we are sending it somewhere where it is damaging to the system, in this case ...

Along with nitrogen and carbon, phosphorus is an essential element for life on Earth. It is a central component of molecules such as DNA and RNA, which serve to transmit and store genetic information, ...