Dust particles thrown up from deserts such as the Sahara and Gobi are playing a previously unknown role in air pollution, a ...

Green chemistry isn’t always top of mind for industrial drug discovery chemists. This 4-point plan can get it there ...

educational background, or other personal attributes. Chemical professionals should strive to do their work in ways that are safe and sustainable for the environment. This includes continuing to work ...

The move has many environmental groups concerned that major chemical safety regulations ... desire to have regulators who have a technical background, with experience in industry and the EPA.

ESF's Department of Chemistry is uniquely organized around the interdisciplinary areas of biochemistry and natural products chemistry, environmental chemistry, and polymer chemistry. All students in ...

We offer a program with its core in the chemical sciences, so students learn fundamentals they can apply to current issues, as well as to discover and develop solutions to emerging problems. Research ...

Hypochlorite (ClO-) is widely used for sterilization, disinfection, and bleaching due to its strong oxidative properties.

The rise of the environmental movement in the 1960s and 1970s brought a growing public awareness of environmental damage caused by chemical pesticides such as DDT, as well as mounting outrage at ...

We are happy to announce our 3rd in person #EnvChem Chemistry of the Whole Environment conference, #EnvChem2025 to be held at the University of Portsmouth on Thursday 12th and Friday 13th June. This ...

Last semester, assistant professor of chemistry Brooks Abel piloted a lab for Chemistry 12A, “Organic Chemistry,” to demonstrate recycling on a chemical level. Specifically, students ...

Multiple chemical sensitivity can include a wide range of symptoms, which some people link to their environment. It's also known as “environmental illness,” "sick building syndrome,” or ...