Babies exposed to higher levels of neurotoxin more likely to have difficulty controlling impulses later, research shows Exposure to common air pollution may cause childhood obesity because it affects ...

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Decision leaves in place Biden-era standard on pollution from coal-fired plants, factories and other industrial sources A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s ...

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Nitrate contamination of drinking water poses a major health concern, particularly in agricultural communities where fertilizers, livestock manure and septic systems can leach nitrates into ...

Researchers at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) have developed two processes—hydrodynamic cavitation and cold ...

The Swedish coast guard on Thursday boarded a Liberia-flagged bulk carrier suspected of dumping waste in the Baltic Sea, Sweden's civil defence minister said."This is a clear example of how the coast ...

One possible solution that’s emerged in recent years is advanced recycling. Advanced recycling, also called chemical recycling, uses heat and chemical reactions to break down pl ...

Burnt-out cars in front of a fence with barbed wire at the top and a plume of black smoke. A thick plume of smoke rises from an oil storage facility hit by a US-Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, on ...

Emerging contaminants (ECs) have become one of the most pressing challenges in environmental chemistry, representing a wide and complex range of ...

A look at the various methods lawn care operators can use to keep their customers' lawns free of pests this summer.

A Yale study finds that combining three low-cost interventions could bring contaminated soils below safety thresholds within a decade, at a fraction of conventional cleanup costs.