The climate science community has long known about super pollutants. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has reported on their warming potential for years. But only recently has ...

In a new study, environmental pollutants found in fish were shown to obstruct the human body’s natural defense system to expel harmful toxins. The Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San ...

An article published in the journal Catalysis Communications describes a simple, efficient and sustainable approach to the degradation and quantitative monitoring of a mixture of polycyclic aromatic ...

Pollutants that affect our lungs are not just restricted to the outdoors; Dr LM Darlong shares indoor elements to watch out ...

A new global analysis of seafood found that fish populations throughout the world's oceans are contaminated with industrial and agricultural pollutants, collectively known as persistent organic ...

To help environmental agencies battle the toxic threats posed by landfills, researchers have developed a system that ranks the toxins present in a landfill by order of toxicity and quantity, allowing ...

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The deep ocean is one of the most unexplored places on Earth. But recently, scientists took the first measurements of organic pollutants in deep ocean trenches, and the results are not promising.

A new review of existing evidence proposes eight hallmarks of environmental exposures that chart the biological pathways through which pollutants contribute to disease: oxidative stress and ...