chemicals

Phthalates in Food Packaging Lead to 100,000 Deaths in U.S. Each Year, Study Finds

Phthalates in Food Packaging Lead to 100,000 Deaths in U.S. Each Year, Study Finds

A new study has found that chemicals known as phthalates (PFAS) found in plastic food packaging and other consumer goods are killing 91,000 to 107,000 older adults in the U.S. each year. The study, published in Environmental Pollution on Oct.12, 2021, outlines the dangers of phthalates in food packaging, although these chemicals are also found […]

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    Air Pollution Linked to Severe Mental Illness

    Air Pollution Linked to Severe Mental Illness

    Air pollution is an underrated problem in the world, with many dangerous health consequences. Recently, the most comprehensive study of its kind linked exposure to air pollution to increased severity of mental illness, The Guardian reported. The study, published in the British Journal of Psychiatry, tested 13,000 people in London, England and used frequency of […]

    Forever Chemicals Are in the Air, Too

    Forever Chemicals Are in the Air, Too

    In recent years, experts have sounded the alarm about the presence of toxic forever chemicals in drinking water. Now, a new study finds they are also present in the air we breathe. The research, published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters on Tuesday, developed a new technique for measuring the presence of per- and polyfluorinated […]

    EPA Takes Action to Protect Pacific Salmon From Pesticides

    EPA Takes Action to Protect Pacific Salmon From Pesticides

    Extreme heat waves have made this a devastating summer for the endangered salmon species of the U.S. West Coast. In mid July, California wildlife officials warned that almost all of the young Chinook salmon in the Sacramento River would likely die because of lower water levels and higher water temperatures. Weeks later, a conservation group […]

    Air Pollution From Household Products Is Cutting People’s Lives Short

    Air Pollution From Household Products Is Cutting People’s Lives Short

    By Krystal Vasquez A specific component of air particle pollution found in some common household products could be responsible for up to 900,000 premature deaths every year — 10 times greater than previous estimates, according to new research published in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics. While the majority of these components, referred to as anthropogenic secondary […]

    First-of-Its-Kind Study Measures Fracking’s Impact on Nearby Surface Water Quality

    First-of-Its-Kind Study Measures Fracking’s Impact on Nearby Surface Water Quality

    A new study correlates poorer surface water quality with nearby hydraulic fracturing but finds that the impacts aren’t major enough to be considered harmful by federal regulators. However, the researchers noted they weren’t able to study “potentially more dangerous” substances related to fracking because of a lack of data. While some published studies have already […]

    What Happens to Wildlife Swimming in a Sea of Our Drug Residues?

    What Happens to Wildlife Swimming in a Sea of Our Drug Residues?

    By Tara Lohan Fish hooked on meth? It’s a catchy headline that made the rounds a few weeks ago, but it represents a serious and growing problem. Our rivers and streams have become a soup of hundreds of drugs — mostly pharmaceuticals — that come from the treated water released from wastewater facilities. Conventional wastewater […]

    Neonicotinoids Harm Bees at Far Below the Label Recommended Dose, Study Finds

    Neonicotinoids Harm Bees at Far Below the Label Recommended Dose, Study Finds

    Ornamental plant nurseries — with their high concentration of different flowers — are an important food source for pollinators. In fact, University of California (UC), Riverside entomologists Jacob Cecala and Erin E. Wilson Rankin counted more than 150 species of wild bees at nurseries in California alone. Despite this, very little research has been done […]