GALVESTON, Texas — Headed to the beach to cool off this summer? The Texas General Land Office (GLO) has a way for you to check how much bacteria associated with fecal matter you could be exposed to.

As the summer sun sends temperatures soaring across the United State, more Americans are headed to the beach to cool off. But researchers say there's one sickening thing you should be aware of before ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- With summer in full swing and much of the country experiencing its warmest weather in years, millions of Americans have been cooling off in the waters of their favorite local ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. SrdjanPav / jada photo / Getty Images Researchers have developed a more precise method for detecting fecal contamination in water ...

Looking over a wobbly guardrail, Dale Landmann uncoiled a few feet of rope, cautiously lowering a white plastic pipe into the opaque waters of the Calumet River on a recent hot weekday morning.

GALVESTON, Texas – If you’re planning on heading down to the Gulf Coast for Memorial Day weekend, you’ll want to check this list. Texas Beach Watch reported that levels of Enterococcus, a bacteria ...

A new study found that 55% of 3,192 beaches tested in 2022 had at least one day in which fecal contamination reached potentially unsafe levels. As the summer sun sends temperatures soaring across the ...