Archive for 'Healthy Planet'
Presidential bets dared vs. toxic cosmetics.
Mar 08, 2010 –
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. Read...
Read MoreResearcher: Pesticide ‘castrates’ male frogs.
Mar 08, 2010 –
Atrazine is widely used as weedkiller on American farms. And a new study shows this common chemical may have gender-bending effects on frogs. Read more: Researcher: Pesticide ‘castrates’ male...
Read MoreWhen stuff happens, the Earth can suffer.
Mar 08, 2010 –
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...
Read MoreThe Chesapeake’s three stages of truth.
Mar 05, 2010 –
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...
Read MoreLeukemia: the price of living close to an oil refinery?
Mar 05, 2010 –
Swedish scientists have discovered a remarkable increase in the incidence of leukemia in people living close to an oil refinery. Read more: Leukemia: the price of living close to an oil refinery? Read More →
Read MoreNo gold medal for ski wax.
Mar 04, 2010 –
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. Read more: No gold medal for...
Read MorePhthalates predispose mice to allergies.
Mar 04, 2010 –
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...
Read MoreA common herbicide turns some male frogs into females.
Mar 03, 2010 –
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...
Read MoreTap water contaminant ‘castrates’ frogs.
Mar 03, 2010 –
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...
Read MoreStudy says herbicide causes frogs’ sex change.
Mar 03, 2010 –
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...
Read MoreSex-change in frogs and chemical castration ’caused by weedkiller.’
Mar 03, 2010 –
One of the most common weed-killers in the world, atrazine, causes chemical castration in frogs and could be killing off amphibian populations worldwide. Read more: Sex-change in frogs and chemical castration...
Read MoreBPA update.
Mar 02, 2010 –
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....
Read MoreWeed killer can turn male frogs into females, study finds.
Mar 02, 2010 –
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...
Read MoreDo Toxins Cause Autism?
Feb 28, 2010 –
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...
Read MoreDerived from flowers, but not benign: Pyrethroids raise new concerns.
Feb 26, 2010 –
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. Read more: Derived...
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