Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UCLA project director Ruby Romero, left, and project manager Caitlin Molina demonstrate in September 2024 how they test street ...

Sandy Field, left, and Crystal Schalmo, with Green Dragon Conservation Education, collect debris that washed up on Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro on Dec. 25. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times) New ...

Scientists have confirmed that synthetic chemicals, including persistent pollutants known as PFAS, now contaminate ocean waters thousands of miles from any factory or city. A series of recent studies, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UCLA project director Ruby Romero, left, and project manager Caitlin Molina demonstrate how they test street drugs. Romero and ...

A large-scale laboratory screen reveals that widely used chemicals do more than contaminate food and water. They can selectively suppress, favor, and rewire gut bacteria, with potential consequences ...

A global study led by UC Riverside uncovers 250 human-made chemicals in oceans, from industrial chemicals to pharmaceuticals.

(Beyond Pesticides, January 13, 2026) An important study in Nature Microbiology challenges the entrenched assumption in the chemical industry and among regulators that synthetic chemicals can be ...

Specific molecular property of lignin in trees determines difficulty of using microbial fermentation to turn trees and other plants into industrial chemicals. Trees are the most abundant natural ...

Scientists have pinpointed a potentially greener way to produce an integral industrial chemical used to make many everyday products from plastics and textiles to antifreeze and disinfectants, ...

A collaboration between chemical engineers and animal scientists has created a system for recovering valuable industrial chemicals from animal waste, representing a major step towards circularity and ...