This essay is part of a series on environmental health. Everywhere they look, they find particles of pollution, like infinite spores in an endless contagion field. Scientists call that field the ...

Globally, one in ten people are affected by food-borne diseases each year. [iStockphotos] Unsafe foods, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), contribute to poor health, including impaired ...

U.S. federal regulators have detected possible radioactive contamination in a second food product imported from Indonesia, even as recalls of potentially tainted shrimp continue to grow. Officials ...

Explainer - What does it mean when a boil water notice is issued due to possible E coli contamination? Here's what you need to know. Several Auckland suburbs were put under a boil water alert Monday ...

However, new research reveals they are potentially even more widespread in the U.S. than previously thought. New research done by Northeastern University's PFAS Project Lab reveals that while there ...

Contamination is anything put in the recycling bin or barrel that can’t be recycled here in Southern Arizona. That includes food particles left in containers, plastic bottles with liquid left in them, ...

For years a textile mill gave farmers its sewage sludge as free fertilizer. Today the land is full of “forever chemicals.” For years a textile mill gave farmers its sewage sludge as free fertilizer.

Farmland is everywhere in tiny Unity Township, from neat fields of corn to open cattle pastures. And so are layers of wet organic sludge, a onetime fertilizer that has triggered a crisis over “forever ...

A plastic drinks bottle is one of the most “recyclable” objects in the modern waste stream. It is lightweight and collected in huge volumes. Yet even for this item, the reality of recycling is messy: ...