What are chemical pollution doing to our our bodies? It’s a well timed query provided that final week, folks in Philadelphia cleared grocery cabinets of bottled water after a poisonous leak from a chemical plant spilled right into a tributary of the Delaware River, a supply of ingesting water for 14 million folks. And it was solely final month {that a} prepare carrying a collection of different hazardous supplies derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, unleashing an unknown amount of poisonous chemical substances.
There’s little doubt that we’re polluting the planet. With a purpose to learn how these pollution is perhaps affecting our personal our bodies, we have to work out how we’re uncovered to them. Which chemical substances are we inhaling, consuming, and digesting? And the way a lot? The sector of exposomics, which seeks to review our publicity to pollution, amongst different elements, may assist to present us some much-needed solutions. Learn the complete story.
—Jessica Hamzelou
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+ The poisonous chemical substances throughout us. Meet Nicolette Bugher, a researcher working to reveal the poisons lurking in the environment and uncover what they imply for human well being. Learn the complete story.
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