Cooling off at a beach or lake is a quintessential part of Fourth of July celebrations for many. But this year, dozens of swimming areas across the country are subject to closures or advisory warnings ...

Just ahead of the long Independence Day weekend, beaches across the country have closed and issued advisories because of excessive levels of harmful bacteria. The culprit is fecal waste, a common ...

Over half of all Massachusetts beaches had an unsafe level of fecal bacteria last year, and 47 beaches reached the danger zone at least a quarter of the time they were tested, according to an ...

SEASIDE PARK -- A bayfront beach was closed June 18 after numerous waste tests showed high levels of fecal bacteria contamination, according to state environmental officials. Health authorities closed ...

There's something foul afoot in these waters — and the cause is unclear. Repeated unsafe fecal bacteria levels have been recorded in Newburyport Harbor according to the Merrimack River Watershed ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. App State researchers received $2.3M to commercialize an AI-driven microscope. The microscope automates fecal egg counting to ...

Labor Day vacationers across the East Coast are facing "fecal contamination" warnings at their beaches this holiday weekend. Water quality warnings have struck coastal areas from Maine to Florida this ...

Researchers at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) have developed a solid polymer coated with harmless viruses to detect ...