POPs are a set of toxic chemicals that are persistent in the environment and able to last for several years before breaking down (UNEP/GPA 2006a). POPs circulate globally and chemicals released in one ...

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 ...

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Scientists from the Henan Academy of Sciences recently developed a new technique for the determination of hydroxyl polycyclic ...

Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) are synthetic compounds that have innate protection from environmental degradations, and are thus, ecologically persistent. They can be purposefully delivered and ...

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

A growing body of literature indicates that childhood exposure to environmental contaminants, such as persistent organic pollutants (POPs), may affect risk of obesity, cardiovascular disease, renal ...

Monitoring of marine mammals provides a window into global trends in persistent organic pollutants (POPs) concentrations that are occurring as a result of changes in climate, the use patterns of ...

Identifying and validating these exposures are of paramount importance to modify disease risk. We previously reported that persistent organic pollutants (POPs) associate with ALS risk and survival and ...

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