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Op-ed: A stalled global plastic treaty threatens our future fertility

Environmental Health News

The final global plastics treaty, which stalled during talks last week, needs to address chemicals used throughout the life cycle of plastics, some of which significantly reduce our fertility and impair our health, in order to truly confront the full scope of the crisis. They are widely present in products that we have come to rely on daily.

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Can We Predict Our Ability to Conceive?

BU School of Public Health Blog

For more than a decade, researchers for Pregnancy Study Online (PRESTO) at the School of Public Health have uncovered lifestyle, environmental, and medical factors that may affect fertility and pregnancy outcomes. As climate change worsens, PRESTO researchers are also analyzing how the environment affects reproductive health.