Arsenic

Burning Old Computers Threatens Ghana's Health

Ben Barber | Posted 05.17.2012

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Recycling, Arsenic, Computers, Ghana, Pollution, Chromium, Agbogbloshie Market, Accra, E-Waste, Green News

Not far from the heart of one of Africa's biggest cities, Accra, Ghana, black clouds of toxic smoke rise from an outdoor recycling operation that is converting America's used computers into copper, gold and other useful materials.

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There's Arsenic In Our Chicken

New York Times | Posted 04.05.2012

Read More: Caffeine, Arsenic, Chicken, Antibiotics Chicken, Caffeine Chicken, Arsenic in Chicken, Arsenic Chicken, Food News

Let’s hope you’re not reading this column while munching on a chicken sandwich. That’s because my topic today is a pair of new scientific st...

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Why Aren't Men More Outraged by the Oral Contraceptives Debate?

John Blumenthal | Posted 05.09.2012

Read More: Arsenic, Prophylactics, Chivalry, Rush Limbaugh, Oral Contraception, Roy Blunt, Viagra, Rick Santorum, Sluts, Diaphragms, Groucho Marx, Sandra Fluke, Spermicides, 1958, Oral Contraceptives, Fifty News

So here's the question, guys: Why is this considered a "women's issue"?

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A Bitter Sweetener in Baby Formula

Dr. Gary Ginsberg | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Rice, Arsenic, Diabetes, Sweeteners, Baby Formula, Arsenic Rice, Rice Arsenic, Green News

Taking a crop high in arsenic and concentrating it down into a syrup and then putting that into baby formula sounds like a terrorist plot on a TV drama. Unfortunately, it's actually happening.

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Is There Arsenic in My Baby Formula?

Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Dr. Alan Greene, Ewg, Arsenic, Brown Rice Syrup, Baby Formula, Parents News

Last week's findings of arsenic in organic brown rice syrup may be even more frightening to parents than last year's discovery of arsenic in apple juice. That's because organic brown rice syrup is ubiquitous in natural products -- it's used as a substitute for high fructose corn syrup.

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'Green News Report' - December 22, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.21.2012

Read More: Epa, Arctic Ice Melt, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Power Plants, Green News Report, Pollution, Climategate, Coal, Methane, Offshore Drilling, Video, Oil Spill, Oil Drilling, Conservatives, Fossil Fuels, Americans for Prosperity, Big Oil, Corporate Media, Climate Science, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Tea Party, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalism, Permafrost, State Department, Shell Oil, Arctic, Toxic Chemicals, Energy Efficiency, Media Matters, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Water, Keystone XL Pipeline, Mercury, Green News, Toxic Waste, BP Oil Spill, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Extreme Weather, Lisa Jackson, Africa, Plastic, Occupy, Genetically Modified Foods, Factory Farming, Famine, Gmos, China, Salmon, Nigeria, Innovation, Drought, Toxic Water, Texas, Arsenic, Occupy Wall Street, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Breaking:...

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EPA's Air Toxics Standards A 'Great Victory,' Say Public Health And Environmental Advocates

HuffingtonPost.com | Lynne Peeples | Posted 12.21.2011

Read More: Energy, Arsenic, Epa, Asthma, Mercury, Power Plants, Birth Defects, Air Pollution, Clean Air Act, Coal-Fired Plants, Green News

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency unveiled historic new rules on Wednesday that would limit the mercury, arsenic and other toxic pollutants in ...

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'Green News Report' - December 15, 2011

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 02.14.2012

Read More: Fracking, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, United Nations, National Journal, Michael Mann, Global Climate Mitigation, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Wyoming, Green News Report, Pollution, Radiation, Methane, Video, Conservatives, Americans for Prosperity, Big Oil, Corporate Media, Fossil Fuels, Climate Science, Durban, Gop, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Tea Party, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Wisconsin, Fukushima, Carbon Emissions, Ipcc, Nuclear Power, Environmentalism, State Department, Toxic Chemicals, BRAD BLOG, Water, Keystone XL Pipeline, Green News, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Hydraulic Fracturing, Japan, Unfccc, 350.Org, Environmental Integrity Project, House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Safe Drinking Water Act, Gregory Jaczko, Coal, Darrell Issa, Ohio, Jason Chaffetz, John Boehner, Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Gasoline Prices, Congressional Oversight, Coal Ash, Gasoline, Ed Markey, Arsenic, Water Pollution, Toxic Waste, Green News

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Arsenic a...

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Is There Arsenic In My Kids' Apple Juice?

Rachel Lincoln Sarnoff | Posted 02.04.2012

Read More: 365 Everyday Value, Dr. Oz, Apple Juice, Arsenic, Arsenic Apple Juice, Juice, Rep. Henry Waxman, Gerber Organic, Parents News

Last week, the news broke that Consumer Reports had found traces of arsenic in apple juice. Naturally, I was alarmed. Although we don't keep juice in the house, my kids do drink apple juice in restaurants and friend's houses. Could I have unintentionally exposed them to poison?

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FDA Revisits Rules On Arsenic In Apple Juice

AP | By MARY CLARE JALONICK | Posted 01.31.2012

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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration is considering tightening restrictions for the levels of arsenic allowed in apple juice after consumer ...

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Still No Regulation to Keep Poisons Off Our Plate

Andrew Gunther | Posted 08.16.2011

Read More: Arsenic, Fda, Perdue Farms, Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations, Big Ag, Chicken Feed, Pfizer, Antibiotics in Meat, Alpharma, Food News

Most of the rest of the world recognizes that adding a known poison to something you are going to eat is not a great idea. For example arsenic is prohibited from being added to any animal feed in Europe.

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If It Quacks Like a Doc

Linda Bergthold | Posted 07.29.2011

Read More: Quackery, Fda, Cure for Cancer, Herbal-Treatments, The-Medical-Board-of-California, Arsenic, San Francisco Chronicle, Bufotenine, Cancer, Edward Feng, Healthy Living News

People seek alternative treatments with no evidence of effectiveness when they are desperate. But not only do these treatments not cure cancer, they can be seriously harmful.

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Mountaintop Removal, an American Tragedy (VIDEO)

Rebecca Tarbotton | Posted 06.07.2011

Read More: Energy, Appalachia, West Virginia, Selenium, Greenhouse, Pollution, Mountains, Explosion, Rainforest Action Network, Arsenic, Dynamite, Mining, Susan Sarandon, Environment, Mountaintop Removal, Cancer, Green News

The impact of mountaintop removal mining is hidden from most us. If you don't live in Appalachia it's easy not to see the devastation that the practice has caused.

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I Demand Cheaper Electricity

Michael Kieschnick | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Brain Damage, Mercury, Arsenic, Electricity, Republicans, Coal, Epa, Power Plants, Coal Industry, Clean Energy, Coal Lobby, Green News

Few would demand that mercury remain an essential ingredient of our electricity. Yet that is precisely what the powerful dirty coal industry would want you to believe.

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An EPA Potboiler: Clean Air Retreat?

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lead, Economics, Regulation, Dioxin, Pollution, Clean Air Act, Arsenic, Soot, Fossil Fuels, U.S. Congress, Health, Boilers, Mercury, Particulate Matter, Air Pollution, Pollutantsmajor Source, Environmental Protection Agency, Green News

The EPA has been under concerted attack by members of the new Congress. Makes me wonder: are EPA's new, weakened rules on hazardous air pollutants intended as a peace offering -- or white flag -- to their opponents?

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Time To Stop Lacing Our Chicken Feed With Arsenic?

Grist | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Factory Farms, Chicken Farms, Arsenic, Chickens, US Department of Agriculture, Iatp, Epa, Arsenic in Chicken Feed, Food News

As a jaded observer of the meat industry, even I'm flummoxed by this fact: It's standard practice on factory chicken farms to dose those unfortunate b...

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The Agency That Cried "Awesome!"

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Biomolecules, Burden of Proof, Nasa, Astrobiology, Exotic Biochemistry, Publicity Circus, Arsenic, Phosphorus, Scientific Process, Extremophile, Hype, Technology News

NASA should not have to resort to circus acts as the price for doing science. It's in such circumstances that violence is done to process, to rigor, to integrity.

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Life, But Not As We Know It

Seth Shostak | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arsenic, Nasa, Microbes, Extraterrestrial Life, Technology News

The import of the discovery of a new arsenic-based microbe is that finding life as we don't know it will give us a better shot at testing for biology on worlds that are, both by definition and in fact, truly alien.

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NASA Finds Weird Life... Where Exactly?

George Zaidan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arsenic, Felisa Wolfe-Simon, Nasa, Bacteria, Phosphorus, Extraterrestrial, Life, Technology News

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Friday Talking Points [148] -- Aliens Landing?

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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So the good news this week was apparently that giant mutant space monsters are not, in fact, about to arrive and (assumably) enslave humankind and eat...

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NASA Apologizes for Not Finding the Aliens

Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Science, Arsenic, Aliens, Nasa, Discovery, Technology News

Newspaper readers and internet users were doggone annoyed that NASA didn't discover a giant space alien, but only an arsenic-fueled microbe that blows apart our definition of life and could help us find aliens in the future.

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Arsenic and Odd Lace

Athena Andreadis, Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arsenic, Hype, Nasa, Phosphorus, Extremophile, Biomolecules, Astrobiology, Exotic Biochemistry, Technology News

It was clever of NASA to disclose its "amazing astrobiology discovery" right around budget-cutting time. But they should have better managed the hype -- and kept squarely in their memory the tale of the boy who cried wolf.

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Earth to NASA!

Frank Dwyer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arsenic, White House, Microbes, Nasa, House, Senate, Politics News

Arsenic nurtures some microbes! This is old news for fans of C-Span. ...

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NASA Discovers New Life: Arsenic Bacteria With DNA Completely Alien To What We Know

The Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham and Craig Kanalley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arsenic, Nasa, NASA New Bacteria, NASA Bacteria, NASA Arsenic Bacteria, Nasa Discovery, Arsenic Bacteria, NASA Press Conference, NASA New Life, Technology News

Astrobiology research funded by NASA has made a tremendous new discovery which could "fundamentally change the knowledge about what comprises all know...

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NASA's Astrobiology Discovery: Arsenic-Eating Bacteria, Not 'Aliens'

AP | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Arsenic, Extraterrestrial Life, NASA Astrobiology, Nasa, Astrobiology, NASA Aliens, Aliens, NASA Press Conference, Science, Arsenic Bacteria, NASA Extraterrestrials, Mono Lake, Technology News

WASHINGTON — The discovery of a strange bacteria that can use arsenic as one of its nutrients widens the scope for finding new forms of life on ...

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