Arsenic is nasty stuff. Concentrated doses of the chemical can be fatal — one reason it’s long been a popular poison for assassins and unhappy widows
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Apparently not content with e-mails and video chat, a Japanese lab is trying to enhance long-distance relationships with electronic kissing. Endocrine disruption, diabetes, obesity — to the list of ills potentially associated with exposure to the chemical bisphenol-A (BPA), you can add one more: childhood asthma. As the Ugandan police force’s heavy-handed tactics against opposition supporters claim more lives, observers question whether the violence could trigger an uprising The rate of women using emergency contraception in 2006-08 more than doubled, compared with the rate in the previous four to six years. See what 200 health and environmental groups had to say to the chemical industry outside its annual GlobalChem conference. “While ‘greenwashing’ is rampant among corporations, I don’t believe it’s usually malicious. It’s just stupid, inept and misguided.” Jeffrey Hollender on people’s true motives for going green, on why the U.S. Chamber of Commerce doesn’t speak for him or 40,000 other small businesses, and on the “Love Machine.” photo: 415vince While Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring catalogued the environmental and health impacts of the agricultural spraying of DDT in the US, early studies of the impacts of indoor spraying of DDT in developing nations as a form of malaria prevention are just emerging. |
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