Widespread PFAS chemical pollution will likely make COVID-19 worse
Read now →These common household and industrial chemicals impair immune system function
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What "Dark Waters" gets right about the DuPont/PFAS water pollution case
Read now →The movie underscores the dangers of polyfluoroalyl substances in the environment and the corporate malfeasance that led to it
You're eating, drinking, and breathing microplastics. Now what?
Read now →What are the health implications of eating 250 pieces of microplastic per day?
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Warming oceans cast a chill over New England's sea turtles
Read now →Recent research suggests warming seas will cause more stranded sea turtles
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These unregulated, potentially dangerous chemicals are probably already in your bloodstream
Read now →Researchers have known that there are unsafe compounds in our water for decades, but the government is just starting to catch up
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After Hurricane Florence, North Carolina's water quality will go down the toilet
Read now →Floodwaters contaminated with coal ash, human sewage, and animal waste throw the entire watershed out of balance
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Why don't Americans care about chemicals?
Read now →We need chemicals for daily life, but seem to feel 'apocalypse fatigue' around their dangers
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Low doses of contaminants, long ignored, can have vast consequences
Read now →Scientists found cocaine – and a lot of other chemicals – in Minnesota snow
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We know terrifyingly little about how our bodies respond to pollutants, but that's changing
Read now →Fish DNA can change in response to pollution. What about the rest of us?
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How Shark Week hurts the very creatures it celebrates
Read now →Showing attacks makes people less likely to support protecting sharks, though they rarely bite people unless we harm their food system
We've poured thousands of manmade chemicals into the ocean. Now they're mixing in unpredictable ways.
Read now →We're just starting to learn about the effects of POP soup and what we can do about it.
Scientists just cut the tolerable intake of PFAs by 99.9%
Read now →PFAs are everywhere. In cosmetics, wrapping your greasy take-out burgers, and eventually, 98% of humans' bloodstreams. The recommended tolerable intake for PFAs was just cut by 99.9%.
There's no corner of the globe safe from microplastic pollution
Read now →These tiny plastic pieces have now been detected on top of mountains, in the soil, and even in your honey
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Humans appear to be worse for animals than radioactive fallout
Read now →Chernobyl's nuclear disaster reveals the unpredictability of evolution
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Toxic chemicals are being freed from melting glaciers
Read now →Scientists are finding decades-old DDT and PCB flowing from the Tibetan Plateau
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Pollution and climate change hurt children most of all
Read now →An ER doctor explains how these shifts compound childhood illness
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Only eight hurricanes hit New England in 100 years. Soon more will head for Boston
Read now →Climate change is shifting storm paths, and new targets are underprepared
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