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New Study Finds High Levels of Flame Retardants in Airplanes
Spending about one hundred hours each month in the air, flight attendants are bombarded with pesticides, radiation, ozone, and any illnesses passengers carry on...
Toxic Turtles: Long-lasting Chemicals May Be Harming Sea Turtles
From the moment they are born, sea turtles fight to survive. Buried alive, they dig themselves out and evade hungry crabs and birds as...
California May Kill the Use of Flame Retardants in Furniture
California is expected to unveil a proposal on Friday that would transform its controversial fire safety standards by dropping a requirement that has led...
Toxic Couches
Flame retardants in US furniture are on the rise, with a new study finding them in nearly all couches tested. The findings, published Wednesday,...
Tuna Served in Public Schools Contains Excessive Mercury
Canned albacore tuna purchased by US schools contains more mercury than what government officials have reported, raising the risks for some tuna-loving kids, according...
Widely Used Pesticide Harms Boys’ Brains
A widely used pesticide — banned in homes but still commonly used on farms — appears to harm boys’ developing brains more than girls’,...
Generation X on Climate Change: Meh
Generation X may not be the stereotypical slackers of those Nineties cult classic movies, but here's one issue they have trouble caring about: climate...
