Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) is a chemical that most people have probably never heard of. However, it is more common than we realize and can be potentially harmful to humans, animals, and the environment.…
Before the city’s schools opened, many students were given blood tests to check for contaminants in their bodies. Many of the tests returned positive.
The issue arose when officials from the OCWD began to observe unusual spikes “in arsenic after it percolated into soils and sediments from surface basins into underground storage aquifers”. What was specifically unusual…
The Chernobyl disaster of 1986 is one of the 20th century’s most catastrophic incidents of radioactive water contamination.
While fertilizers are used to brighten the yard, there are darker consequences that the average Long Islander is unaware of.
March 22nd, 2015 — this year’s World Water Day — make this the day that we begin to think differently.