The agency also created a new website dedicated to explaining and defending its approval of farm chemicals that meet a ...

Sea otters were officially extirpated from B.C. in 1929 after more than two centuries of fur hunting. They only returned to the province after scientists relocated 89 animals from Alaska between 1969 ...

A paper published in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, finds high quantities of toxic "forever" chemicals in sea otters ...

New research indicates that a pregnant mother’s exposure to a class of persistent synthetic chemicals is associated with specific structural and functional characteristics of her child’s brain. The ...

In 2022, New York passed among the strongest PFAS laws in the nation — within its carpet recycling statute. That statute defined these “forever chemicals” by chemical structure, not just a short list ...

Forever chemicals' already have a shocking reputation, and now new research has linked these substances – named for the way ...

One of the ways that per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) earn their “forever chemical” nickname and persist in the environment is their acidity. Many of these toxic chemicals are highly acidic, ...

A new paper in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, published by Oxford University Press, finds high qualities of toxic "forever" chemicals in sea ...

It’s not uncommon nowadays to fill a glass of water from your tap and wonder what chemicals and contaminants may be lurking in there. That’s because research has increasingly revealed that heavy ...

Your tap water’s dirty little secret might have just met its match. Scientists have engineered a high-tech filter that strips toxic “forever chemicals” from drinking water in a matter of minutes.