A surprising simple solution to bad indoor air quality: potted plants
From the Washington Post, August 24, 2016 – The first time Vadoud Niri walked into a nail salon, he quickly had to walk straight out. “I went with my wife and couldn’t handle it,” he said. “You could...
View ArticleHow GMOs Cut The Use Of Pesticides — And Perhaps Boosted It Again
From NPR, September 1, 2016 – In the ferocious, sprawling brawl over genetically modified crops, one particular question seems like it should have a simple factual answer: Did those crops lead to more...
View ArticleAimed at Zika Mosquitoes, Spray Kills Millions of Honeybees
From the New York Times, September 1, 2016 – The Monday morning scene at Juanita Stanley’s apiary in Summerville, S.C., was ghastly and stunningly quiet: Everywhere one looked were clumps of honeybees,...
View ArticleFDA bans antibacterial soaps containing triclosan
From STAT, September 2, 2016 – WASHINGTON — In a major victory for environmentalists and public health advocates, the US Food and Drug Administration today banned the use of triclosan as an ingredient...
View ArticleEnergy Sprawl is the Largest Driver of Land Use Change in the U.S.
From Cool Green Science, September 8, 2016 – According to a new paper out today in PLOS ONE, energy sprawl – the development of new land area required for energy production – is, and will likely...
View ArticleSmaller homes appeal to both empty nesters and millennials
From the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, August 11, 2016 – With both sons grown and out of the house, Vicki and Steve Gall decided it was time to move from their 4,000-square-foot home in Mequon to a home...
View ArticleBumblebee skilled at ‘buzz pollination’ may soon join the endangered species...
From the Los Angeles Times, September 22, 2016 – A type of bumblebee native to North America may soon be named to the endangered species list. It would be the first bee species to be considered...
View ArticleInvestors urge food companies to shift from meat to plants
From Reuters, September 26, 2016 – A group of 40 investors managing $1.25 trillion in assets have launched a campaign to encourage 16 global food companies to change the way they source protein for...
View ArticlePesticide manufacturers’ own tests reveal serious harm to honeybees
From The Guardian, September 22, 2016 – Bayer and Syngenta criticized for secrecy after unpublished research obtained under freedom of information law linked high doses of their products to damage to...
View ArticleCanadian government says it will implement a nationwide carbon tax by 2018
From the Los Angeles Time, October 3, 2016 – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has given the country’s 10 provinces and three northern territories two years to begin implementing a comprehensive...
View ArticlePhthalates in Fast Food: A Potential Dietary Source of Exposure
From Environmental Health Perspective, October 2016 – Many research studies have surveyed nutritional habits, but fewer have studied how food processing and packaging might introduce unwanted chemicals...
View ArticleThe Dizzying Grandeur of 21st-Century Agriculture
From The New York Times Magazine, October 2016 – Our industrialized food system nourishes more people, at lower cost, than any comparable system in history. It also exerts a terrifyingly massive...
View ArticleDoes American ag feed the world? Not if you focus on the hungry countries
From MINNPOST, October 6, 2016 – We’ve heard it all our lives: American farmers feed the world. Once it was a simple expression of pride. Since the 1970s it has morphed into a justification for...
View ArticleAre Halloween makeup and face paint products harmful for kids?
From ABC News, October 13, 2016 – SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — If you’re already working on your kids’ Halloween costumes, here’s something to consider — the thick makeup or face paint you might use to...
View ArticleDoing Laundry Can Be Deadly for Clams, Mollusks and Other Marine Animals
From Smithsonian.com, October 13, 2016 – Everyone loves the feeling of clean clothes—except maybe sea animals. Each load of laundry you do may be pouring hundreds of thousands of tiny pollutants into...
View ArticleWind Is the New Corn for Struggling Farmers
From Bloomberg Business Week, October 6, 2016 – Wind energy, the fastest-growing source of electricity in the U.S., is transforming low-income rural areas in ways not seen since the federal government...
View ArticleToxic economy: Common chemicals cost US billions every year
From Environmental Health News, October 17, 2016 – Exposure to chemicals in pesticides, toys, makeup, food packaging and detergents costs the U.S. more than $340 billion annually due to health care...
View ArticleExposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the USA: a population-based...
From The Lancet, October 17, 2016 Background Endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) contribute to disease and dysfunction and incur high associated costs (>1% of the gross domestic product [GDP] in...
View ArticleMother Earthling
From Syracuse Newtimes, October 19, 2016 If you go leaf peeping and consider the stunning displays of reds and oranges and yellows simply wallpaper pasted in the sky for your entertainment, you’re...
View ArticleFood Industry Goes Beyond Looks to Fight Waste
From The New York Times, October 24, 2016 – Duck-shaped potatoes. Curvy cucumbers. Broken carrots. Some food sellers, after decades of displaying piles of identical, aesthetically pleasing produce, are...
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