Researchers investigating Parkinson’s disease have made a curious discovery related to ear wax that could improve prospects of prevention and diagnosis.A team based at Zhejiang University in Guangzhou ...

Lifelong San José resident Apollo-Genesis Braddock-Layton has fished the Pacific Coast’s shore for as long as he can remember ...

The court ruled that state regulators can force landowners to clean up emerging pollutants before they are officially ...

The court ruled that state regulators can force landowners to clean up emerging pollutants such as PFAS before they are officially designated as hazardous substances.

A new book by New Mexico-born author Mariah Blake explains how a previously unknown Manhattan Project program ushered in the age of toxic “forever chemicals” ...

Many of the foams firefighters spray to extinguish blazes contain per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS. Known as ...

Sasha and Jamie Cordle thought their small farm in rural Georgia would be a ladder out of working-class struggle, and a gift ...

Studies have shown the chemicals can accumulate in our bodies, leading to certain cancers and other health complications. PFAS are synthetic compounds that "are an unseen ingredient in many items ...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (U.S. EPA) National Priorities List (NPL) is a list of sites in the U.S. and its territories of national priority that are sources of known ...

The agency had a golden opportunity to clean up its act on “forever chemicals” — but fumbled spectacularly. Instead of addressing flawed science and regulatory overreach, it doubled down on outdated ...