How did PFAS – known as ‘forever chemicals’ – manage to infiltrate global water sources so extensively before anyone realised ...

Lithium-ion batteries are part of everyday life. They power small rechargeable devices such as mobile phones and laptops.

The study is particularly significant because it could help explain the association between these plastic-derived chemicals ...

“If bacteria survive in a harsh, polluted environment, it’s probably because they have adapted to use surrounding chemical ...

makes PFAS an eternal threat. Conferred by the carbon-fluorine chain of their chemical structure, the strongest bond existing in organic chemistry, this stability persists beyond the desired ...

Patagonia switched its DWR to longchain PFAS from shortchain PFAS less than 10 years ago, believing the longer chemical structure to be safer. “We finished that transition, everybody was psyched ...

Apple is facing a class-action lawsuit over its Apple Watch bands The lawsuit alleges that Apple "hides" the existence of ...

A new study finds that several brands of fitness tracker and smartwatch bands contain "very high concentrations" of a man-made chemical that ... substances (PFAS). These compounds are known ...

In 2023, the Federal Republic of Germany, together with four other countries, proposed a fundamental restriction on PFAS. The aim was ... their consultants. The chemical lobby also claimed that ...

InvestigationLe Monde and its 29 media partners reveal the inner workings of the intense lobbying campaign waged by the sectors using and producing PFAS to ... in the line of chemical industry ...

President Donald Trump withdrew a Biden administration plan to set new limits on chemical discharge into drinking water, ...

Tony Evers' budget proposal will also include millions of dollars to address contamination and supply bottled water.