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Vegetables in plactic bags in Bangladesh.

Bangladesh continues promotion of biodegradable bags amid battle against polythene

Mohammad Al-Masum Molla 1 Apr 2025
Food can pick up chemicals from to-go containers and everything else they contact on their way to your table. Credit: Taklamacuwv Lamia on Wikimedia Commons

Thousands of chemicals from food packaging found in humans, a major study reveals

Rita Aksenfeld 25 Nov 2024
People clean up plastic trash at a beach in Bali, Indonesia.

Plastic pollution pushing Earth past all nine planetary boundaries: Report

Alden Wicker 25 Nov 2024
Workers sort through discared plastic in Bangladesh.

The plastics crisis is now a global human health crisis, experts say

Alden Wicker 19 Nov 2024
A firefighter wears a breathing mask after the Maui fire to protect himself from toxic vapors.

As global fire risk rises, modern homes become toxic plastic traps

Alden Wicker 14 Nov 2024
North Atlantic orcas are threatened by persistent organic pollutants that build up in their favorite prey, marine mammals. Photo by Nitesh Jain / Unsplash

North Atlantic orcas reveal the troubling persistence of toxic ocean pollutants

Kristel Tjandra 27 Nov 2023
Red colobus monkey in Uganda. Image by Julie Kearney Wasserman via U.S. National Science Foundation.

Are flame retardants about to burn a hole in biodiversity? (commentary)

Marta Venier and Michael Wasserman 13 Nov 2023

Tropical mammals under rising chemical pollution pressure, study warns

Sean Mowbray 2 May 2022

Chemical recycling: ‘Green’ plastics solution makes more pollution, says report

Claire Asher 22 Mar 2022

Tiny plastic particles accumulating in river headwaters: Study

Claire Asher 10 Feb 2022

For pharmaceuticals fouling wastewater and wildlife, solutions exist (commentary)

Cate Twining-Ward, Colin Chapman 18 Jan 2022

Novel chemical entities: Are we sleepwalking through a planetary boundary?

Claire Asher 23 Sep 2021

Rio Tinto-owned mine is polluting Malagasy water with uranium and lead, NGOs say

Mongabay.com 1 Sep 2021

Climate change isn’t fueling algal blooms the way we think, study shows

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 15 Jun 2021

‘Great concern’ as study finds microplastics in human placentas

Elizabeth Claire Alberts 6 Jan 2021

Field Notes: Mapping condor conservation strategies

Elizabeth Devitt 5 Oct 2016

Inside The Toxic Tour: Not for prime-time Ecuador (PHOTOS)

Bill Hinchberger 12 Jun 2015

Local economy ruined by pesticide pollution in the Caribbean

Martine Valo 29 May 2013

Scientists discover high mercury levels in Amazon residents, gold-mining to blame

Lacey Avery 28 May 2013

Mercury hurts birds and people: what we can learn from studying our feathered friends

Jenny R. Isaacs 7 Jan 2013

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