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Heavy metals, phthalates and other potentially harmful chemicals have been detected in a range of menstrual products – the latest category of concern in the personal care aisle.
Companies with relatively many patents and more employees own facilities that tend to release lower proportions of their toxic waste into the environment.
New research shows that the biggest sources of forever chemicals are rooted in the past – old landfills, waste sites or historic industrial use.
Water systems are vulnerable to melting plastic components, toxic contamination and failures that can leave firefighters without flowing water.
Rain storms wash those tire shards into streams and ultimately into lakes and oceans. That’s bad news for fish and other aquatic life.
While non-plastic textiles are not as long-lived as plastics, they can last long enough to accumulate and cause damage to plants, animals and humans.
Biosphere status is ‘not a hallmark of perfection’, says island administration.
Between 2000 and 2020, only one-third of environmental enforcement actions were actually brought against the biggest corporate offenders.
The environmental damage and loss of wildlife are the hidden costs of conflict.
A lot went wrong in the scramble to respond after a train carrying highly volatile vinyl chloride and other chemicals derailed in 2023. The lessons can help ensure safer responses in the future.
Tap water is just one of the ways people are exposed to PFAS.
New research shows how old lead mines are polluting the environment and surrounding wildlife and farmland with legacy contaminants.
New AI-based research suggests chemicals known for their negative health effects are produced in the most popular flavoured vapes. We need for tighter regulation on vapes – fast
I hate telling people I’m a chemist – but chemistry is the central science of the modern world.
In Australia, the taxpayer has footed the bill for the forever chemical clean-up so far. But this will have to change.
Synthetic chemicals found in ski wax have been found in the snow and soil on ski slopes and could pose a toxic threat to the environment.
Your washing machine is polluting the ocean.
War is often described as long periods of waiting punctuated by short periods of terror – for the environment, the reverse is true.
They have properties that make them essential for many products.
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Professor of Civil, Environmental and Ecological Engineering, Purdue University
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