For centuries, artisanal gold miners in the Asgede district, located in the North Western Zone of the Tigray region, have used traditional tools for gold extraction. However, in recent years, this ...

Scientists have issued a serious health warning about a common practice that millions of us do in our kitchens. They're advising people to stop using plastic containers to heat food in microwaves. The ...

Public health and environmental advocates are struggling to outrun "forever chemicals," otherwise known as per- and ...

When a fire burns in an urban area, it unleashes a slurry of chemicals. Scientists are trying to understand the chemistry at ...

A new lawsuit filed by over 700 residents of East Palestine, Ohio, makes the first wrongful-death allegations in connection ...

Residents of the Channel Islands of Jersey, exposed to "forever chemicals" for decades, show abnormally high levels of the ...

New research has highlighted the link between forever chemicals in our drinking water and several thousand cancer diagnoses.

"3M in 2023 agreed to pay settlements amounting to more than $10bn over contamination of various public drinking water ...

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The manmade chemicals, which are tied to a host of health ailments, have contaminated sources of drinking water across ...

Ski shop workers at an REI in New York City went on strike after the company took away their respirators. Scenes from the REI picket line. New York City—Deep in the basement of REI’s flagship SoHo ...

The payout would cover just a fraction of the cleanup costs the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority has accrued since ...