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At a public meeting, multiple members of the committee said they do not agree that breathing air polluted with soot can lead to an early death.

On Monday, the DEP said Chemours is currently using PFAS-replacement chemicals at the Chambers Works site, and is discharging the chemical into water and air.

The atlas would map every cell in a child’s body and advance understanding of how and why pediatric diseases occur.

In Fukushima, farmers and residents put their stock in solar.

On the 40th anniversary of the Three Mile Island nuclear accident, we look back at the disaster and discuss the effect it had on the nuclear power industry then and now.

Cut way back on red meat, say scientists, who came up with a controversial diet recommended for our health, and the planet’s.

Your brain responds to the sweet treat using the same pleasure pathway addictive drugs use, new research shows.

Forty years after the country's worst nuclear accident, Three Mile Island could close. That's sparked a debate about the risks and benefits of this carbon-free energy source.

History was supposed to be made Friday when, for the first time, two female astronauts were scheduled to do a spacewalk together outside the International Space Station.

Authorities say dozens of spiny dogfish sharks washed up on beaches across southern New Jersey last weekend.

Studies that link genetic markers with disease focus largely on white European populations, and neglect other races and ethnicities.

"Nobody wants the spent fuel near them," said Don Hudson, who lives downstream from the defunct Maine Yankee plant.

For certain snappers, in fact, a market preference for plate-size whole fillets is driving fishermen to target smaller fish. For some wild fish populations, this can be dire.