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Navy agrees to fund toxic water study at NC base.
The Navy has agreed, after months of fighting, to fund a study into the health effects of past water pollution at Camp Lejeune on Marines.
Full StoryPollution: the biggest killer on Britain’s roads.
What is the biggest killer on our roads? It’s not black ice, or drunk driving, or even badly installed accelerator pedals. In fact, it’s air pollution – and it’s getting worse.
Full StoryNew Jersey restaurants cooking up pollution along with pizza and hamburgers.
When fast-food restaurants cook up cholesterol-heavy foods, they spew cholesterol and other particulates into the air, pollution that can affect the health of people with asthma and other breathing issues, researchers say.
Full StoryFeinstein calls for moratorium on toxic landfill expansion.
Sen. Dianne Feinstein on Tuesday called for a moratorium on expanding a toxic-waste landfill in the impoverished Central Valley enclave of Kettleman City.
Full StoryAir Pollution From Freeway Extends One And A Half Miles Away
Environmental health researchers from UCLA, the University of Southern California and the California Air Resources Board have found that during the hours before sunrise, freeway air pollution extends much further than previously thought. Full story
Full StoryIs industrial pollution making America fat?
Despite the nagging of diet experts, fitness instructors, public health officials, doctors, nurses and moms, the tide of obesity that has practically engulfed Western civilization over the past two decades shows no sign of reaching its ebb. In the United States, the percentage of adults who are obese — defined by the National Institutes of [...]
Full StoryCancer Study Cites Hazards of Indoor Air for N.Y., L.A. Teens
Survey of students finds health risks for formaldehyde and dichlorobenzene in homes and schools. Teenagers in Los Angeles and New York City face a substantial — and strikingly similar — cancer risk from breathing the air, largely because of toxic chemicals inside their homes and schools, a new scientific study shows. For the research, 87 [...]
Full StoryDo you really NEED that cell phone?
I thought I didn’t have to worry about EMFs, since I don’t seem to be bothered by them, but this article has me thinking again. Oy! Wi-Fi: The Largest Biological Experiment Ever Organs that have been shown to be especially susceptible to radio waves include the lungs, nervous system, heart, eyes, testes and thyroid gland. [...]
Full StoryOur Preferred Poison
Discover.com: A little mercury is all that humans need to do away with themselves quietly, slowly, and surely By Karen Wright Let’s start with a straightforward fact: Mercury is unimaginably toxic and dangerous. A single drop on a human hand can be irreversibly fatal. A single drop in a large lake can make all the [...]
Full StoryDiesel fumes may add to heart attack risk
London Free Press: By SHERYL UBELACKER, CP TORONTO — Breathing in diesel exhaust fumes at levels typically found in large cities disrupts important blood vessel functions, new research has shown, suggesting a possible mechanism linking higher heart attack rates during periods of high air pollution. Numerous studies over the last 20 years have shown that [...]
Full StoryWhat’s in you?
Part one of a three part series Douglas Fischer – STAFF WRITER Inside Bay Area In a pioneering study, we tested a Bay Area family for a suite of chemical pollutants. The results stunned even scientists. A casual observer of Rowan Hammond Holland sees a little towhead, devilishly cute, who grins impishly while tossing food [...]
Full StoryChild cancer ‘exhaust fume risk’
Source: BBC Children who live close to major transport hubs are more at risk of dying of cancer, a study says. University of Birmingham researchers found those living within 500 metres of a bus station were six times more likely to die of cancer. The study also said railways and hospitals increased the risk. For [...]
Full StoryLow radiation levels pose cancer risk
Scientists say no threshold below which exposure is harmless WASHINGTON – Even very low doses of radiation pose a risk of cancer over a person’s lifetime, a National Academy of Sciences panel concluded. It rejected some scientists’ arguments that tiny doses are harmless or may in fact be beneficial. The findings, disclosed in a report [...]
Full StoryAutism and sensitive people: who’s “sensitive”?
Dear Friend, If I were a child today, I believe I might have developed autism. Why? As many of my readers know, I became an expert in healthy, nontoxic living because I am sensitive to toxic chemicals, and new research is raising serious concerns about a link between autism and some sensitive individuals’ inability to [...]
Full StoryAnalysis: Half of U.S. breathes dirty air
– Nearly half the U.S. population (49 percent) lives in areas with unhealthy levels of ozone. – More than 26 percent live in areas with unhealthy short-term levels of particulate pollution. – One-in-five lives in areas with unhealthy year-round levels of particulate pollution. – About 50.2 million Americans, nearly 17 percent, live in 47 counties [...]
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