Concerns rise over contaminated water from BASF facility into Detroit River, with experts urging regulators to act.

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Experts told USA TODAY that further testing is needed to help communities understand the risks of lingering L.A. wildfire ...

A team of researchers say they want to look at what exposure to toxins from thousands of burned structures does to people ...

Researchers find that tiny plastic particles increase the absorption of environmental arsenic and pesticides in lettuce and human intestinal cells, raising new safety concerns about plastic pollution.

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