Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jane Hoppin, an environmental epidemiologist at N.C. State, was part of a research team that analyzed archived samples of blood ...

Since the rise of commercial chemical manufacturing in the 1940s, the environment has been plagued by a growing concentration of man-made substances like microplastics, PCBs, and bisphenols. There’s ...

CFC substitutes release 335,500 tons of an eternal chemical called TFA that already contaminates rain, ice, and global water.

PFAS, short for per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are not called "forever chemicals" for nothing. These fluorine-containing organic molecules are difficult to break down and are likely to remain in ...

New attention to trifluoracetic acid, or TFA, underscores the game of whack-a-mole that scientists and communities face with forever chemicals. As cities and towns plan to remove several harmful ...

As with many PFAS substances, scientific consensus around TFA's health effects is still forming. Studies highlighted by PAN Europe and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) report that TFA ...

A new study reveals that chemicals used to replace ozone-damaging CFCs are now driving a surge in a persistent “forever chemical” worldwide. The pollutant, called trifluoroacetic acid, is falling out ...

Daniel Drage has previously received funding from the Natural Environment Research Council, DEFRA, Environmental Protection Agency of Ireland. He is an Associate Professor at University of Birmingham ...

Trifluoroacetic acid (TFA), a potentially toxic “forever chemical”, has more than tripled in the global environment in two decades due to refrigerants that are helping to close the hole in the ozone ...