Tag: Contamination
You can be exposed to PFAS through food, water, even swimming...
Ruohao Zhang, Penn State; Jiameng Zheng, Louisiana State University ; Wendong Zhang, Cornell University, and Xibo Wan, University of Connecticut
Grand Canyon’s Dragon Bravo megafire shows the growing wildfire threat to...
Faith Kearns, Arizona State University
As wildfire crews battled the Dragon Bravo Fire on the Grand Canyon’s North Rim...
Arsenic contamination of food and water is a global public health...
Cristina Andrade-Feraud, Florida International University and Diana Azzam, Florida International University
Arsenic is a naturally occurring element found in...
What is listeria? A microbiologist explains the bacterium behind recent deadly...
Yvonne Sun, University of Dayton
Bacteria do, and will, end up in food. Everyone eats – intentionally or unintentionally...
How to destroy a ‘forever chemical’ – scientists are discovering ways...
A. Daniel Jones, Michigan State University and Hui Li, Michigan State University
PFAS chemicals seemed like a good idea...
Flood maps show US vastly underestimates contamination risk at old industrial...
Thomas Marlow, New York University; James R. Elliott, Rice University, and Scott Frickel, Brown University
Climate science is clear:...
Ancient groundwater: Why the water you’re drinking may be thousands of...
Marissa Grunes, Harvard University; Alan Seltzer, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, and Kevin M. Befus, University of Arkansas
Communities that...
Wildfires are contaminating drinking water systems, and it’s more widespread than...
Andrew J. Whelton, Purdue University
More than 58,000 fires scorched the United States last year, and 2021 is on...
EXPLORING NATURE
Erie Canal’s 200th anniversary: How a technological marvel for trade changed...
Christine Keiner, Rochester Institute of Technology
If you visit the Erie Canal today, you’ll find a tranquil waterway and...
