When the infamous, hairdryer-like Santa Ana winds weaken, the devastating fires in the Greater Los Angeles area can be fought from the air. To do that, firefighting planes and helicopters have dropped ...

The hot-pink mix of water and chemicals, which is sprayed from planes to combat wildfires, is under renewed scrutiny.

An invisible cocktail of chemicals leaching from plastics could be threatening the long-term survival of birds in the wild, ...

There are plenty of stressors that can keep you up at night. Harmful chemicals in your mattress should not be one of them.

Wildfire retardants, the hot-pink mix of water and chemicals sprayed from airplanes by the U.S Forest service to combat ...

Many phone apps offer general but nonspecific information about airborne particles. To help increase public safety amidst the ...

Dr. Jaewoo Kim's research team at the KIST, has developed a groundbreaking solution to overcome these limitations: the "Epoxy/MXene One-Component Solution." This innovative material consists of epoxy ...

In 1980, two children and 29 crew members aboard a grain freighter became ill. They had been exposed to phosphine—a chemical used in fumigation to kill pests in and on grain—for four days. In the end, ...

Various clean energy technologies have been developed to meet the rapidly intensifying energy demand and dwindling fossil ...

Greece issued a call for a tender for the exploration and exploitation of antimony deposits on the island of Chios.

LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of thousands of gallons of flame retardant have been dropped on or near homes in the areas of both the ...

U.S. Army Sgt. Ricardo Hernandez watched from a cross street as sporadic traffic passed on the Pacific Coast Highway near ...