If you're despairing at recent reports that Earth's water sources have been thoroughly infested with hazardous human-made chemicals called PFAS that can last for thousands of years, making…
Engineers at UC Riverside are the first to report selective breakdown of a particularly stubborn class of PFAS called fluorinated carboxylic acids (FCAs) by common microorganisms.
Under…
Once dubbed "forever chemicals," per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, might be in the market for a new nickname.
That's because adding iodide to a water treatment reactor that uses…
The Associated PressJun 18, 2021 13:56:46 ISTMore than half the cosmetics sold in the United States and Canada are awash with a toxic industrial compound associated with serious health…