VOCs, or volatile organic compounds, are compounds that contain carbon atoms and that, at room temperature, easily evaporate. Too small to see and virtually omnipresent both indoors and out, they can ...

A study reports that, around the world, wildfires and prescribed burns could emit substantially more gases, including ones ...

This article will cover where volatile compounds in the breath originate from, endogenous compounds, and exogenous compounds. Where do volatile compounds in the breath originate from? Breath comprises ...

Organic chemist Bruce Lipshutz had a bit of a rude awakening. It was around 2007, and the head of environmental health and safety (EH&S) at the University of California, Santa Barbara, sat Lipshutz ...

Organic compound emissions from wildland fires could be 21 per cent higher than previously thought, according to study ...