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CEO Chip Bergh has indicated in the past that he doesn't wash his denim but has now clarified his routine.

Sitting calmly in their webs, many spiders wait for prey to come to them. Arachnids along lakes and rivers eat aquatic insects, such as dragonflies. But, when these insects live in mercury-contaminated waterways, they can pass the metal along to the spiders that feed on them. Now, researchers reporting in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology Letters have demonstrated how some shoreline spiders can move mercury contamination from riverbeds up the food chain to land animals.

A new Duke University study finds that municipal waste incinerators' legacy of contamination could live on in urban soils.

Learn about the hidden threat of chemicals from plumbing seals infiltrating drinking water, potentially posing health risks.

Rubber plumbing seals have been found to leak potentially harmful additives into drinking water, a new study has found.

A 2022 law expanded the FDAs authority to regulate makeup, and it also set a 3-year deadline for a report on potential risk of PFAS, known as forever chemicals, in cosmetics.

Concentrations of some potentially harmful chemical compounds in dust collected from air filtration systems on the International Space Station (ISS) exceed those found in floor dust from many American homes, a new study reveals.In the first study of

They’re in everything from non-stick cookware to yoga pants – and in the bodies of almost every human alive. They may be doing people great harm.

A billion tires enter landfills, are burned, or litter the landscape every year, and more will be dumped as auto use surges planetwide. Industry analysts and entrepreneurs are pressing for circular economy solutions.

Redlining is a type of mortgage discrimination in which lenders deny loans based on a neighborhood's racial composition. Housing discrimination is deeply embedded in America’s past — and mortgage lenders are partly responsible through the practice of redlining.In a nutshell, redlining is mortgage discrimination against nonwhite neighborhoods. Lenders engage in redlining when they deny loans based on an area’s racial composition.Here, an overview of redlining’s pa...