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Plastic pipes continuously leach chemicals that accelerate the growth of potentially dangerous microbes and pathogens in drinking water, according to a recent study published in Environmental Science ...

A nation-wide study of U.S. adults published in the Annals of Medicine found that markers of exposure to phthalate plasticizers were associated with changes in kidney function. In short:Due to ...

Plastic in birds Recent research linked plastic exposure to changes in gut bacteria for some birds. Credit: David Clode/Unsplash In her most recent study, published in March in Nature Ecology & ...

The day they died, temperatures peaked well past 100 degrees Fahrenheit (38 degrees Celsius), and the truck had no water and a busted cooling system. Eleven people survived thanks to a nearby worker ...

Editor’s note: This op-ed was written by a group of current and former employees of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), who have asked to remain anonymous due to concerns about retaliation ...

Residents of Komati, a former coal hub in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province, remain skeptical of the country’s green transition as job losses and slow infrastructure rollout leave them in economic ...

Cami Ferrell is a bilingual video reporter for Environmental Health News and based in Houston, Texas. Ferrell primarily reports on the petrochemical buildout in the Texas Gulf Coast.

As of September 2023, the 11 constructed chemical recycling facilities in the country are capable of processing 459,280 tons of waste plastic each year, using pyrolysis and gasification to convert it ...

However, we need to contend with the root causes of climate change and environmental degradation: colonialism and capitalism. These systems originally meant to kill and dispossess Indigenous people ...

The original Line 3 pipeline was built in the 1960s, decades before the court ordered the state to honor the treaties, Bibeau said. The pipeline pumped 760,000 barrels of oil per day, but over the ...

The Pittsburgh District of the United States Army Corps of Engineers completed construction of the Kinzua Dam in 1965 and manages it to this day. In 1936, Congress authorized the building of the dam ...