Even without accounting for veterinary or pharmaceutical waste, human antibiotic use alone is pushing rivers past ecological tipping points, putting global water systems and health at risk.

New research suggests drought can stoke antibiotic resistance in soil bacteria — and that can have an impact on humans.

A new study has found that a highly antibiotic-resistant strain of the superbug MRSA -- methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus -- has emerged in livestock in the last 50 years, probably due to ...

Researchers at Clemson University have been investigating how antibiotic resistance can move between species, including from humans into animals. Infectious diseases that can jump species are called ...

For almost seven decades, we've routinely fed antibiotics to the animals we eat. That's just a few years less than we've taken antibiotics ourselves. And for just about as long, it’s been clear that ...

Michelle Power receives funding from the Australian Research Council, Inspiring Australia, SeaWorld Research and Rescue Foundation. Many of us are aware of the enormous threat of antibiotic- (or ...