In their study of global chemical pollution, the researchers provide an overview of particularly problematic chemical groups, such as PFAS and pesticides, and advocate comprehensive changes to address ...

Sunlight hits tiny particles of plastic floating in a clear water solution. Slowly, they begin to disappear, leaving behind a ...

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After decades trapping crayfish in northwest Oregon, Mike Hailey could tell when something was wrong. In the summer of 2023, Hailey noticed crayfish had disappeared downriver from a wood treatment ...

The Cape Fear River is a known hot spot for pollution from "forever chemicals," with the blame for the contamination of the waterway largely focused on Chemours and DuPont for their decades-long ...

Beginning more than a half-century ago, a cancer-linked chemical has been plunging hundreds of feet through sinkholes beneath a telecommunications factory in Lake Mary, spreading for miles through the ...

CHAPEL HILL, NC (WWAY) — A state court has restored North Carolina’s ability to limit pollution from 1,4-dioxane, a toxic industrial chemical that can threaten drinking water supplies for nearly 1 ...

Three large chemical manufacturers, Chemours, DuPont, and Corteva, agreed Monday to pay New Jersey $875 million in a settlement linked to pollution from PFAS, or perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl ...

Gerald Generette, left, and Maurice Miller look onto the Cape Fear River as it continues to rise in the aftermath of Florence in Fayetteville, N.C., Monday, Sept. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/David Goldman) ...

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