#Environmental Health

Articles (7)

• 🇺🇸 Here's some new dirt on a source of antibiotic resistance — 27/03/2026 [USA]

  New research suggests drought can stoke antibiotic resistance in soil bacteria — and that can have an impact on humans.

  Related: #Antibiotic Resistance
• 🇬🇧 In Our Blood: The Forever Chemicals Scandal review – no one should have to live like this — 22/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>This upsetting documentary goes to the town with the most terrifyingly high levels of Pfas in the UK, tests the locals and finds that nothing has been done to help them – and now it’s simply too la...

  Related: #Corporate Accountability
• 🇬🇧 People in North Yorkshire town found to have ‘alarming’ levels of toxic Pfas chemicals in blood — 20/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>Exclusive: Testing in Bentham, home to UK’s highest recorded Pfas levels, finds one in four have blood levels in greatest risk category</p><p>Alarming levels of toxic forever chemicals have been fo...

  Related: #Chemical Contamination
• 🇺🇸 ‘The Plastic Detox’ Co-Director On How Couples’ Fertility Journeys Shone A Light On The Dangers Of Microplastics — 18/03/2026 [USA]

  The Plastic Detox is Netflix’s documentary film that delves into whether lowering daily exposure to microplastics – going on a three-month plastic detox – can improve fertility markers in couples who ...

  Related: #Fertility, #Documentary
• 🇬🇧 ‘We were at a loss’: the couples trying to get pregnant by removing plastics from their lives — 14/03/2026 [United Kingdom]

  <p>New Netflix documentary The Plastic Detox follows an epidemiologist’s radical new plan to boost fertility in three months. We meet the couples whose lives were turned upside down – and in some case...

  Related: #Fertility
• 🇺🇸 Cancer Haunts Neighbors of Canada’s Oil Sands Wastelands — 10/03/2026 [USA]

  Though high rates of the disease persist among the nearby Indigenous communities, the Canadian government is weighing rules that may allow energy giants to release treated mining waste into the river ...

  Related: #Industrial Pollution
• 🇺🇸 Bayer retreats as investors sour on deal to settle Roundup litigation — 18/02/2026 [USA] Related: #Legal Proceedings, #Corporate Strategy, #Investor Relations, #Agriculture Industry