Archive for 'Healthy Planet'
Presidential bets dared vs. toxic cosmetics.
On the eve of International Women’s Day, environmentalists campaigned in Manila to urge presidential bets to protect maternal and child health against toxic chemicals, particularly those in cosmetics.
Full StoryResearcher: Pesticide ‘castrates’ male frogs.
Atrazine is widely used as weedkiller on American farms. And a new study shows this common chemical may have gender-bending effects on frogs.
Full StoryWhen stuff happens, the Earth can suffer.
Author Annie Leonard believes we need to come together as a community and demand change “upstream” of stuff — including demanding protections that will remove toxins from shampoo, and changing trade regulations.
Full StoryThe Chesapeake’s three stages of truth.
The philosopher Schopenhauer once said that truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident. With time more people will reach the conclusion that the Chesapeake Bay is in trouble.
Full StoryLeukemia: the price of living close to an oil refinery?
Swedish scientists have discovered a remarkable increase in the incidence of leukemia in people living close to an oil refinery.
Full StoryNo gold medal for ski wax.
The Olympic skiers who recently dazzled the world on Canadian slopes couldn’t have reached the speeds they did without ski wax. But the material may have a dark side.
Full StoryPhthalates predispose mice to allergies.
Dibutyl phthalate (DBP) rubbed onto mouse skin changed the chemistry of the rodents’ immune system and made them more prone to developing contact allergies, reports a new study published in the scientific journal Immunology.
Full StoryA common herbicide turns some male frogs into females.
Some 225,000 kilograms of atrazine fall with the rain each year, sometimes up to 1,000 kilometers from the source. All that atrazine may be having another effect besides controlling weeds: turning male frogs female.
Full StoryTap water contaminant ‘castrates’ frogs.
An herbicide that contaminates the tap water consumed by millions of Americans has been found to produce gender-bending effects in male frogs, “chemically castrating” some and turning others into females, a study shows.
Full StoryStudy says herbicide causes frogs’ sex change.
A powerful and widely used herbicide called Atrazine changes the sex of many male frogs to females and emasculates three-quarters of others, according to research reported this week by a UC Berkeley professor and molecular toxicologist.
Full StorySex-change in frogs and chemical castration ’caused by weedkiller.’
One of the most common weed-killers in the world, atrazine, causes chemical castration in frogs and could be killing off amphibian populations worldwide.
Full StoryBPA update.
Bisphenol-A may soon hit the list of known toxicants under California’s Proposition 65, the law that lets state regulators restrict the use of toxic chemicals and require warnings on product labels. What does the science say, and what are practical steps people and companies are taking to go BPA-free?
Full StoryWeed killer can turn male frogs into females, study finds.
Researchers in the United States say they have turned male frogs into females by exposing the amphibians to tiny amounts of atrazine, a weed killer widely used on corn fields in Canada and often found in water supplies in agricultural areas.
Full StoryDo Toxins Cause Autism?
by NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF Autism was first identified in 1943 in an obscure medical journal. Since then it has become a frighteningly common affliction, with the Centers for Disease Control reporting recently that autism disorders now affect almost 1 percent of children. Over recent decades, other development disorders also appear to have proliferated, along with certain [...]
Full StoryDerived from flowers, but not benign: Pyrethroids raise new concerns.
Chemicals derived from flowers may sound harmless, but new research raises concerns about compounds synthesized from chrysanthemums that are used in virtually every household pesticide.
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