The Occoquan Reservoir supplies water for around a million people in Northern Virginia and it exceeds the EPA’s max contaminant levels for forever chemicals.

PFAS are widely used, long-lasting chemicals, components of which break down very slowly over time and are found nearly everywhere, according to the EPA.

Justice & Health Illinois Communities Grapple With ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Their Drinking Water Hundreds of thousands of residents are served by the affected systems.

The Trump administration’s planned cuts to EPA research and science could make it harder to discover new “forever chemicals” and understand their risks to human health, three researchers who ...

A new study has uncovered a shocking link between PFAS — also known as “forever chemicals — and autism in men.

Bacteria commonly found in the human gut could potentially be used to gather up PFAS and carry them out as waste, researchers suggest in a study published this week in Nature Microbiology. “I ...

Patrick Fallon/AFP via Getty Images Every person in the Netherlands has “forever chemicals” in their blood, according to the country’s first national study on the topic.

"Forever chemicals" or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been widely used in consumer and industrial products for the better part of a century, but do not break down in the natural ...

Residents and scientists warn that PFAS contamination in harbor water could pose serious health and environmental risks, casting doubt on the city’s desalination plant plan.

Research shows gut microbiome could help eliminate persistent PFAS that linger in bodies for years, as scientists work to develop protective probiotics.

Certain types of microbes found in the human gut can absorb toxic “forever chemicals” from their surroundings and pass them from the body, a study has found.