T he presence of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in all the world's oceans but one has been in steady decline since 2001, when 152 countries agreed on a comprehensive global ban. The ...

A prospective cohort study found that exposure to polychlorinated biphenyls was an independent risk factor for cardiovascular ...

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a groundbreaking initiative to address the challenge of hazardous ...

POPs – Persistent Organic Pollutants – pose a significant risk to human health and the environment around the entire globe. They are organic compounds that are resistant to environmental degradation ...

Scientists clarify key indicator of chemical activity: the correlation between liquid properties and the generation of active ...

Microplastics—typically defined as plastic fragments smaller than 5 mm—originate from a host of sources, including plastic ...

Areas of research include global climate change, coral reef ecosystems, biogeochemistry, persistent organic pollutants, and the environmental transformations of natural and anthropogenic trace ...