chemicals

Antidepressants that people take are building up in the brains of fish like walleye, bass, and perch. Researchers studied fish from the Niagara River,…

Researchers have found some kinds of chemicals are harder to filter from water.These compounds belong to a family called highly fluorinated chemicals.…

A lot of different chemicals end up in our rivers and streams.Researchers are finding these mixtures of chemicals are more complex than we thought, and it…

Flame retardants are in a lot of products we use: furniture, carpet padding, electronics, car seats and baby products. Some types of flame retardants…

The Environmental Protection Agency just put out a list of ten high priority chemicals.These are the first chemicals the agency will review for risks to…

$340 billion dollars: a new study estimates that’s how much it costs Americans every year for daily low-level exposure to chemicals that mess with our…

There’s now more evidence that manmade chemicals can spread far and wide. Researchers have found a chemical called PFPIA in cormorants, northern pike and…

An industrial chemical is showing up in trout from the Great Lakes. It’s called perfluoro-1-butane sulfonamide, or FBSA.Researchers traced this chemical…

Past studies have found strange things happening to frogs when they’re exposed to farm chemicals. A new study shows estrogen in suburban areas is messing…

The study, published in the journal Environmental Health, found that continuous exposure to very low doses of the herbicide Roundup might be linked to…