High-energy UV light breaks apart PFAS by generating hydrogen radicals in water, opening the door to greener, more effective ...

Here’s how “forever chemicals”—manufactured chemicals that can easily contaminate water—can impact your health, including causing cancer and a weakened immune system, and why the EPA is moving to ...

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Researchers have found more than 16,000 chemicals in plastics. A new report shows that about a quarter of these chemicals can be hazardous to health and the environment. Plastic pollution is an ...

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The update is based on the most recent science, which suggest that these chemicals are much more hazardous to human health than scientists had thought and are probably more dangerous at levels ...

A child sits in a shopping cart and looks at a store display of potato chips and other snack items as someone pushes the cart along. Packets of chips are on display at a supermarket in Mumbai, India, ...

Imagine an ordinary Tuesday. You wash your hair, put on deodorant, drink coffee, pack lunch in a plastic container and ...

What chemicals are we exposed to on a daily basis? That is the central question of 'non-targeted analysis' or NTA, an emerging field of analytical science that aims to identify all chemicals around us ...

As international talks continue this week, a dozen U.N. officials reveal scientists tracked their exposure to many chemicals found in plastics. By Hiroko Tabuchi The wristbands look like those you ...

Plasticizers were found in nearly every food item — from fruit to pastas Getty Images; General Mills Phthalates — aka, “forever chemicals” — have been found in several well-known food brands, ...