The water at a Storm Lake beach this week had about 50 times the amount of bacteria that triggers a swim warning from the state, according to the Iowa Department of Natural Resources. The cause? Geese ...

GREAT BARRINGTON — It was their 31st wedding anniversary, and one of them spent it on the toilet. She had been sitting there for days. Not just one strain of bacteria had rioted in the body of Suzi ...

The murky mocha-colored water in Lake Augusta is as off-putting as the source of its pollution: bird droppings, lots of them. Every fall, thousands of migrating double-crested cormorants roost in the ...

VINITA — It began with goose poop. Officials think the droppings left by a flock of geese on a Grand Lake beach last Memorial Day weekend, followed by heavy rain, were initially responsible for the ...

The waters of Lonesome Lake, an alpine lake in the Wind River range, exceed the EPA’s safety threshold for fecal contamination by a staggering 384 times Last fall, scientists from the Environmental ...