The chemicals that helped save the ozone layer may be quietly seeding the planet with an indestructible pollutant.

Chemicals used in refrigeration break down in the atmosphere to produce trifluoroacetic acid, a persistent pollutant that could be harmful to humans and aquatic life ...

Concentrations of a forever chemical known as TFA is increasing in rainwater, drinking water, soil and plants.

PFAS — officially called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances — are synthetic chemicals that have been used in products from cookware to plastic packaging for decades. You may know them as "forever ...

A new paper in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, published by Oxford University Press, finds high qualities of toxic “forever” chemicals in sea otters recovered off the Pacific Ocean. Per- and ...

Newer forever chemicals aren’t showing up in the ocean like legacy ones – and scientists don’t know why. View on euronews ...

COEUR D'ALENE, Idaho — Lead and arsenic concentrations in sediments and recreational waters along Lake Coeur d’Alene and the Spokane River have changed little in the past 25 years, according to a new ...

An interdisciplinary team including researchers at McGill University has found a range of unexpected chemical contaminants in human milk samples from Canada and South Africa. The chemicals include ...