On Friday, June 20, 2025, in the Uruguayan seaside city of Punta del Este, governments from across the world agreed to establish the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and ...

Chemists have been working on new approaches to reducing waste and finding new functions for existing materials.

Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. In their study of global chemical pollution, the researchers provide an overview of particularly problematic chemical groups, such as ...

NYSP2I’s annual summer-long research program gives students across its five partner universities—including Binghamton University, Clarkson University, Cornell University, Rensselaer Polytechnic ...

The Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday announced a major rule to reduce toxic air pollution coming from more than 200 chemical plants across the U.S. The move comes as part of the Biden ...

The Ocean Recovery Alliance, headquartered in Hong Kong, has released “Towards Circular Plastics: Assessing the Impact of Recycling Technologies in Tackling Plastic Pollution,” a report that assesses ...

Researchers uncover contamination pathway that's complicating efforts to understand how much plastic is in the air ...

Researchers developed a way to fingerprint organofluorine compounds -- sometimes called 'forever chemicals' --which could help authorities trace them to their source when they end up in aquifers, ...

While walking through Bear Mountain State Park in New York, chemist Yuwei Gu noticed plastic bottles spread across the trail and floating in the nearby lake. The sight of so much waste in a natural ...

The state is leading the country’s reckoning with PFAS. The outcome of its suit against the federal government will affect ...

A clinical trial found that exposure to air pollution such as diesel exhaust, woodsmoke, and indoor pollutants affects brain ...