Explore the EPA's mission to protect human and environmental health through regulations. Understand its enforcement of laws ...

If you liked this story, share it with other people. The combined effects of humanity’s actions are making ecosystems less resistant to change, and threatening the vital ecosystem services humanity ...

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), sometimes called forever chemicals, constitute a large group of synthetic chemicals that contain at least one fully fluorinated methyl or methylene carbon.

Nature and nurture both determine how likely you are to develop a particular disease. Hiroshi Watanabe/DigitalVision via Getty Images Sitting in my doctor’s examination room, I was surprised when she ...

Human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases and resulting climate change harm the health of people in the United States. Evidence since 2009 supports and strengthens EPA (2009a) conclusions and has ...

Today, the world faces record levels of conflict and violence with a significant impact on people. In 2023 alone, over 170 armed conflicts were recorded. By the end of the year, nearly 120 million ...

Historical and Cultural Roots. The European ancestry of environmental health ; Early environmental public health in the United States ; Environmentalism and economic growth ; The birth of the U.S.

IF TIMING IS everything, then Thomas Hartung picked a bad moment to make his move. Dr Hartung is an environmental toxicologist at Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, who has spent his career ...

Why do some people remain mentally sharp into old age, while others experience cognitive impairments earlier in life? Two recent studies involving Forschungszentrum Jülich provide new answers to this ...