Lead exposure affects up to 815 million children worldwide. During International Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, PAHO highlights the need to identify sources of exposure, strengthen surveillance, and ...

One of the pressing problems that the world faces in the era of climate change is how to grow enough healthy food to meet the increasing global population, even as soil contamination rises. Research ...

There is a large and extensive scientific evidence base demonstrating a relationship between numerous adverse health effects and short-term (i.e., daily or 24-hour average over one or more days) ...

This essay is part of a series on environmental health. Everywhere they look, they find particles of pollution, like infinite spores in an endless contagion field. Scientists call that field the ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 20, 2024) A study published online in the journal Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology raises continuing concern about residual exposure to organochlorine pesticides ...

(Beyond Pesticides, October 15, 2025) The latest Scientific Investigations Report for 2025 from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), entitled “National Water Quality Program: Multidecadal Change in ...

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Radioactive contamination is the unwanted or unintended presence of radioactive materials on a surface, or within a liquid or gas. Radioactive materials released into environment can cause air, water, ...

Radioactive contamination occurs when radioactivity is present where it is unwanted or unintended. For instance, when radioactive materials collect on a surface, or within a liquid or gas, then both ...