Pollution

Potentially harmful chemicals can enter the environment at the production, use and disposal stages of the pharmaceutical lifecycle.…

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Key insights Decades of fire-suppression policies have left forests rife with fuel to burn; either through wildfires…

Steve Muigai spends his days driving a boda boda (motorcycle taxi) in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. He makes…

Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai have found that wildfire smoke may carry greater…

Faulty environmental data is not merely an academic problem. It can lead to flawed policies, wasted resources and…

The new study into air pollution comes from the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the National Institute for Communicable Diseases…

Microplastics are often viewed as pollutants in their own right, but their environmental impact may extend far beyond…

After decades of pollution and years of beach closures caused by raw sewage in the Tijuana River, San…

The LIFE Research Institute is developing regenerative bioeconomy systems that integrate biosciences and biotechnology to transform waste and…

All 60 teas met Chinese limits for the harmful elements tested, but conservative risk modeling highlighted cadmium as…

A large, live swimming crab, Portunus sanguinolentus entrapped inside the bottle. Credit: Hajime Sato / Hiroshima University A…

Environmental protection in upcoming pharmaceutical legislation could enhance risk assessments and support implementation