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Cities Produce Far Fewer Greenhouse Gases
Attention city dwellers: There's consolation for your cramped apartments and crowded subway cars. Your carbon footprint might be a quarter the size of your...
Common Household Products May Be Linked to Kids’ Behavior Problems
Insecticides commonly used in households may be associated with behavior problems in children, according to a new study. Conducted by researchers in Quebec, the...
Air Pollution and the Gut: Are Fine Particles Linked to Bowel Disease?
At 22, Mark Rievaj had one major love: speed skating. Day and night he spent at the Calgary track, vying for a coveted position...
Women Living Near Pesticide-Treated Fields Have Smaller Babies
Women in Northern California farm towns gave birth to smaller babies if they lived within three miles of strawberry fields and other crops treated...
Toxics in the Womb
Deep in a laboratory freezer, 100,000 vials of blood have been frozen for the better part of five decades. For scientist Barbara Cohn, it's...
Plastic Dog Toys May Be Toxic
Dogs that chew on plastic training devices and toys may be exposed to hormone-altering chemicals, according to research at Texas Tech University. The researchers...
Pets Share Our Environment and Our Diseases
When Janet Riordan returned home from a European vacation in January, she expected a storm of tail wagging and barking from her seven-year-old golden...
Early Puberty? A New Study Finds that Girls Exposed to Household Chemical Menstruate Earlier
Girls exposed to high levels of a common household chemical had their first period seven months earlier than girls with lower exposures, according to...
