Environment

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As US states ban the use of ‘forever chemicals’ in these products, papermakers are turning to other materials—without disclosing what’s in them.

Major steelmakers and disruptive start-ups look to hydrogen and renewable electricity to make green steel.

Researchers made glow-in-the-dark plants by taking a biosynthetic pathway from glowing mushrooms and adding it to tobacco.

Water scarcity from climate change could displace up to 700 million people by 2030. Chemists and engineers are working to make less-expensive, more energy-efficient technologies more widely accessible.

inChemistry takes a close look at "superchemists" who have paved the way for us all to live healthier, greener lives.

A new bismuth-based catalyst is the fastest photocatalyst yet to degrade the perfluorinated pollutant.

Congratulations to the ACS Student Chapter at Gordon College in Wenham, MA, winners of the Chemists Celebrate Earth Week (CCEW) video content.

Ocean acidification is a global phenomenon impacting marine organisms and human communities, yet few people are aware of it. See what NOAA researchers are doing to address this important environmental issue.

New catalyst converts carbon dioxide to two- and three-carbon compounds that could enable carbon-neutral fuels.

Superpaints. Bendable light. Cure for Hepatitis C. ACS celebrates heroic advancements in health, tech, the environment, and our food supply.

In the face of great skepticism, ozone depletion discovery brought worldwide attention to human-contributed greenhouse gases on the planet.

Chemists turn to animal, vegetable, and mineral sources for catalytic materials.

What was once garbage could one day produce electricity or be turned into industrial-grade ethanol.

It turns out espresso machines can do more than brew coffee. Researchers percolated polluted soil to quickly extract organic carcinogens in the time it takes to brew a cup of joe.