Eating fresh, clean snow is generally safe, but precautions are needed to avoid contaminants and health risks.

It’s widely used because it can slow flames in ways that water can’t. But it also contains heavy metals and other harmful ...

New York and California forced companies to remove PFAS from apparel. It hasn’t been smooth.

Toxins in wildfire smoke can cause coughing, itchy eyes, and trouble breathing. It can also cause inflammation of the lungs, ...

A newly-elected state representative from Cleburne is calling on companies that manufacture sewage-based fertilizer to limit ...

Forever chemicals are as pervasive as they are insidious, and some brands have found opportunity in their elimination.

The paper, led by a Boston College researcher, in the New England Journal of Medicine calls for a sweeping overhaul of ...

Nations must start testing and regulating chemicals and chemical products as closely as the current systems that safeguard ...

Washington researchers and care providers are struggling to keep up with new chemicals in the region’s illicit drug supply.

The "forever chemicals" flowing from U.S. wastewater treatment plants are not only more abundant than previously thought, but ...

"We've been focused on a small subset of these chemicals, but that's just the tip of the iceberg," a researcher said.

The widespread use of pharmaceuticals in America is introducing even more toxic “forever chemicals” into the environment ...