A state study says a 250-square-mile area of east Harris County is a cancer cluster. Some residents believe it may be linked ...

East Harris County has elevated levels of cervix uteri, leukemia, lung and bronchus, and lymphoma cancers, the Texas ...

Max-Planck-Institut für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim an der Ruhr 45470, Germany ...

A Curtin University-led paper, "The Use of Plastic as a Household Fuel among the Urban Poor in the Global South" published in ...

Burning plastic as fuel for cooking and heating releases toxic chemicals into the air and contaminates food. Yet this is ...

Nigerian households use garbage as cooking fuel, while Indonesian soil and food samples have dangerous toxin levels linked to ...

Small, polar rings and electron-withdrawing atoms are both well-loved motifs in medicinal chemistry. So oxetanes and fluorine atoms could be a match made in drug discovery heaven. Researchers devised ...

Australian researchers have called for action to reduce the burning of plastic for heating and cooking in developing nations, warning of health risks. In a new study, researchers from Curtin ...

Research led by the Curtin University in Perth, Australia has found that an increase in plastic waste across developing ...

Companies use flame-retardant enclosures on lithium-ion batteries to meet flammability standards, but are the chemicals used in these enclosures safe?

E-waste continues to be an African problem,” remarked Professor Babajide Alo. He was speaking as chair at the Workshop on the Management of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in E-waste Recycling ...