Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Participants on a Mediterranean diet with low persistent organic pollutants exposure had lower risk for ...

Researchers find plastic waste in Black Sea transports toxic substances, raising risks for marine ecosystems, human health. - ...

A recent Environmental Health Perspectives study determined the impact of early life exposure to potent aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AHR) agonists on gut microbiota and its potential effects on ...

Persistent organic pollutants are a group of hazardous synthetic chemicals that resist environmental degradation, leading to their long-term presence in various ecosystems. These compounds include a ...

(Beyond Pesticides, September 16, 2021) A study published in Chemosphere finds persistent organic pollutants (POPs), including organochlorine pesticides (OCPs), polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and ...

Researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC have found that persistent organic pollutants (POPs)—synthetic toxic chemicals often found in food sources and stored in body fat — are associated ...

The presence of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in all the world’s oceans but one has been in steady decline since 2001, when 152 countries agreed on a comprehensive global ban. The exception has ...

The Council and the Parliament reached a provisional deal concerning the revision of annexes to the persistent organic pollutant regulation in order to set further restrictions to the presence of ...

Somewhere between the wheat fields and oil rigs of Oklahoma, the air carries a chemical that scientists had never before ...

Environment ministers endorsed the Council’s mandate to negotiate with the European Parliament an agreement on the regulation to further restrict the presence of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) ...

MANILA, Philippines — Smoke from the April 10 fire at the closed Navotas Sanitary Landfill may have begun as an air pollution crisis, but environmental groups and researchers now warn its longer-term ...