Stories by Environmental Health News

Gaining more weight during pregnancy can substantially reduce a baby’s exposure to pesticides that accumulate in a mother’s body, according to new research

China’s smoke-belching coal plants and heavy traffic may be signs of a bustling economy but health experts fear the country’s dirty air is hurting its infants

Dark clouds of soot and gases spewed by tractors, bulldozers and backhoes are becoming a thing of the past under new federal standards that have forced cleaner diesel engines this year

Photographs portray the wide variety of environmental health problems that have afflicted people and ecosystems from Ho Chi Minh City to Lake Erie

The next wave of wrist wear might act as a fashionable archive of your exposure to everything from caffeine to pesticides

Considered inconceivable just a decade ago, achieving the federal target for fine particulates is perhaps one of the nation’s greatest environmental success stories. But the victory will be short-lived

New, unpublished research has found that polychlorinated biphenyls – banned in the United States 35 years ago – are leaching out of clothing and printed materials from around the world

Contrary to cultural assumptions that boys are stronger and sturdier, basic biological weaknesses are built into the male of our species. These frailties leave them more vulnerable than girls to life’s hazards, including environmental pollutants such as insecticides, lead and plasticizers

Scientists at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration have found that bisphenol A does not affect the health of rats fed low doses. Other scientists say the study is flawed

In some sediment at McMurdo Sound, one widely used chemical was found at levels similar to those found in urban rivers. Research stations are the apparent source

There's a mystery afoot in the Bay Area: A manmade chemical, pulled from production 12 years ago, is still turning up at high levels in seals

Scientists have documented for the first time that several phthalates are declining in people while several others are rising

Exposure to low levels of bisphenol A during development may make men more susceptible to prostate cancer later in life, according to a new study

It was a year when people were fed up with pipelines from Canada, fracking, coal trains and other environmental messes

A coolant made from soybean oil and a more ecofriendly white paint are among the winners of the 2013 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards

Traces of 18 unregulated contaminants were found in the water from one-third of utilities in sampling across the U.S. by federal scientists.

Only about half of the prescription drugs and other newly emerging contaminants in sewage are removed by treatment plants says a new report

Six decades ago, Romanians were promised economic prosperity as their country was industrialized, but in most cases, they were left with collapsed buildings, poisoned soils and disoriented communities

Mothers and children of a tribe in Canada’s highly industrialized region have elevated levels of estrogen-blocking chemicals

New research provides evidence that antibiotic resistance has spread beyond hospitals and farms to wildlife

Children exposed in the womb to two chlorinated chemicals widely found in the environment are more likely to develop asthma by the age of 20, according to new research in Denmark

As countries’ human life expectancy grows, so do their numbers of invasive and endangered species, according to a new study

A new study by researchers in Quebec is one of the first to investigate potential human health effects of pyrethroids, which are used in more than 3,500 commercial products

Under a new global treaty that limits the use of mercury, some lightbulbs, batteries, thermometers and other medical devices will be banned. But eye makeup is exempt