Since it was first produced at the start of the 20th century, synthetic plastic – and especially plastic packaging – has been an ever-present fixture in everyday life. Yet all the convenience plastic has given us comes at a price.

Pollution from coal power plants contributes to far more deaths than scientists realized, study shows

PFAS: how research is uncovering damaging effects of ‘forever chemicals’

When science showed in the 1970s that gas stoves produced harmful indoor air pollution, the industry reached for tobacco’s PR playbook

In an age where convenience often takes precedence over concern, plastics have nestled themselves comfortably into nearly every corner of our lives. 

3M offers $10.3B settlement over PFAS contamination in water systems – now, how do you destroy a ‘forever chemical’?

The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently reported that around one in six couples globally are affected by infertility. For many years people tended to blame women for a couple’s infertility – especially in African countries.

Body lotions, mothballs, cleaning fluids and other widely used products contain known toxic chemicals, study finds

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as ‘forever chemicals’ are used as ingredients that can make products waterproof, long-lasting and help them spread smoothly across skin.

Exposure to even moderate levels of airplane noise may disrupt sleep, researchers report.

For most of us, staying in a hotel room is either something of a necessity – think business travel – or something to look forward to as part of a holiday or wider excursion.

"For more than a century, TCE has threatened workers, polluted the air we breathe—outside and inside—and contaminated the water we drink. Global use is waxing, not waning," researchers say in a new report.

Skin does repair itself, but how long does that take? If you hit the beach for half an hour, then retreat to the shade for a while, then go back out, will the damage have gone back to baseline? Or are you accumulating it?

Wheat provides 19% of the calories and 21% of the protein consumed by humans globally. But a fungal disease called fusarium head blight (FHB), which can infect wheat crops and contaminate the grain with toxins, is on the rise.

To arrive at this conclusion, the researchers combined health and mortality data for seven million Canadians gathered over a 25-year period with information about the levels of outdoor PM2.5 concentrations across the country.

As the production of chemicals continues to boom, how exactly are they impacting our health? To answer this question, new tools have been developed to identify and monitor hazardous substances.

Heartland virus is circulating in lone star ticks in Georgia, scientists find, confirming active transmission of the virus within the state.

One in every nine people in Australia has asthma. It is a health burden for many children, and expensive for families because of medication, hospital and out-of-hospital expenses.

The most toxic substances that we identified actually came after the bottle had been in the dishwasher—presumably because washing wears down the plastic and thereby increases leaching

Beating the bite of mosquitoes this spring and summer could hinge on your attire and your skin, a new study shows.

Stopping mosquito bites is key to avoiding itchy bumps and mosquito-borne disease. Thankfully, there are several methods can you try – and some things to avoid – for a mozzie bite-free summer.

Children raised in areas with more atmospheric lead pollution grew up to have less...

As North America enters its peak summer growing season, gardeners are planting and weeding, and groundskeepers are mowing parks and playing fields. Many are using the popular weed killer Roundup, which is...