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Dolphin Catastrophe in Peru Still a Mystery

Hardy Jones | Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Yaipen Llanos, Pcbs, Ume, Peru, Dolphins, BlueVoice.Org, Mass Mortality, Ddt, Pops, Green News

What is known is that catastrophic die-offs of dolphins and other marine mammals are occurring with greater frequency and virulence around the world. They are an indication that the oceans are in deep, deep trouble; perhaps greater trouble than we have imagined.

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Rachel's Kids

Michael Brune | Posted 08.17.2011

Read More: Ddt, Silent Spring, Methyl Iodide California, Methyl Iodide, Rachel Carson, Green News

Rachel Carson would be proud of the kids at Renaissance High School in Watsonville, California.

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The Tree of Life: Your Summer Popcorn Flick It Ain't

Avital Binshtock | Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Palme D?Or, Story, Director, Jessica Chastain, Texas, Cannes, Dinosaurs, Film, Movies, Theme, Cinema, Dvd, Terrence Malick, Trailer, Religion, Brad Pitt, Environment, Ddt, Critics, Tree of Life, Entertainment News

The Tree of Life isn't exactly what its trailer suggests. Watch its marketing tool, and you get the idea that it's a poignant story about a young fam...

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Is Propoxur the Way to Not Let the Bedbugs Bite?

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Chemical Marketplace, Pesticides, Insecticides, Health, Ohio, Ddt, Bedbugs, Cancer, Chemicals, Environmental Protection Agency, Toxins, Propoxur, Jean Schmidt, Green News

Some of you are no doubt scratching your heads, thinking: "There's gotta be an insecticide capable of offing these guys. Why can't the pointy-headed geniuses at the chemical companies make one?" As it turns out, they have.

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Don't Allow This to Be Another Silent Spring: Tell Lawmakers to Take Climate Action

Sigourney Weaver | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Clean Water, Department of Agriculture, Ddt, Silent Spring, Climate Change, Cancer, Chemicals, Rachel Carson, Green News

I keep thinking about Rachel Carson these days, because the current efforts to discredit climate scientists look a lot like the powerful resistance that met Carson's warnings about DDT.

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Green News Report: January 20, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Co2, House of Representatives, Fracking, Australia, Hu Jintao, Agriculture, Epa, Pregnancy, Managed Retreat, Coal, Colorado, Offshore Drilling, Parking, Marcellus Shale, Rising Sea Level, Mountaintop Removal, Greenhouse Gases, Climate Change Denial, Usda, Coal Mining, Global Warming, Bpa, California, Biofuels, Carbon Emissions, Environmentalists, Environmentalism, Toxic Chemicals, Algae, Food, Sustainability, Natural Gas, BP Oil Spill, Upper Big Branch Mine, China, Pesticides, Ddt, Regulation, Green News Report, Biotech, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Drought, Apple Computers, Big Oil, Fossil Fuels, Colony Collapse Disorder, Gop, Climate Change, Global Warming Deniers, Bp, Interior Department, Massey Energy, Bees, European Union, Subsidies, Evergreen Solar, Energy Efficiency, BRAD BLOG, Colorado River, Carbon Trading, Green News, Oil, Fox News, Hydraulic Fracturing, Extreme Weather, 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: Fox "News...

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Did You Just Eat a Plastic Bag? How Plastic Pollution Has Entered Our Food Chain

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bpa, Algalita, Food Chain, Mercury, Pcbs, Ddt, Oceans, China, Plastic Bags, Algalita MRF, Anna Cummins, Marcus Eriksen, Plastic Pollution Coalition, Green News

Many of us limit our intake of tuna and swordfish due to high chemical levels in those fish, and research shows disposable plastic waste may be a potent source of this contamination.

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When Traveling, B Is for "Bedbug," not "Baggage"

Margie Goldsmith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bedbugs in the Mattress, Avoiding Bedbugs, Pesticides, De-Bedbugging, Suitcase, Bedbugs in the Hotel Room, Carbon Dioxide, Finding Bedbugs While Traveling, Controlling Bedbugs, Ddt, Bedbugs, Bedbugs in the Bedding, Checking for Bedbugs, Infestation, Travel News

While there is no instant fix for bedbugs, there are ways to control and avoid them when traveling.

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Eco Etiquette: Is Organic Milk A Hoax?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Green Living, Usda, Michael Pollan, Organic Milk, Antibiotic Resistance, Rbst, Conjugated Linoleic Acid, Pesticides, Organic Farming, Ddt, Organic Food, Green Advice, Rbgh, Stonyfield Farm, Food Politics, Green News

Organic milk production, long considered one of the fastest growing segments of US agriculture, has begun to slow in the past year as Americans tighten their belts.

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PHOTOS: 7 Toxic Chemicals In Your Seafood That You Don't Know About

Huffington Post | Barbara Fenig | Posted 05.25.2011

Since the smell test doesn't really cut it, we decided to investigate the chemicals in seafood that you might not know about. We all know that mercur...

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Dispersants and Oil Spills. Tradeoffs and a Lesson in Risk Perception.

David Ropeik | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environmentalists, Fetus, Gulf of Mexico, Malaria, Risk Perception, Epa, Fatty Acids, Corexit 9500A, Oil Spill, Fossil Fuels, Mercury, Dispersants, Ddt, Nuclear Power, Seafood, Psychology, Green News

The dispersants used to break up the oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill are indeed toxic, but no more so than the oil itself. They reduce the mechanism by which the oil suffocates or harms some wildlife.

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Shadow Elite: Merchants of Doubt -- Do Scientific Denialists Have No Shame?

Naomi Oreskes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ddt, Environmental Protection Agency, Naomi-Oreskes, Epa, Shadow Elite, Rachel Carson, Environment, Neoconservatives, Green News

From tobacco to acid rain to DDT to global warming, how has a small cabal of men come to justify their misrepresentation of scientific evidence? The personal attacks on colleagues, including vulnerable younger ones?

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Silent Spring Has Sprung

Randall Amster | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Tyrone Hayes, Atrazine, Water, Nrdc, Rachel Carson, Environment, Green News, Silent Spring, Syngenta, Toxic Chemicals, Endocrine Disruptors, Epa, Ddt, Drinking Water, Green News

the pervasive use of the herbicide atrazine raises a host of ecological and political questions that are strikingly reminiscent of those confronted by Rachel Carson.

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Can an Oil Spill Actually Help the Environment? Finding a Silver Lining in an Environmental Crisis

Gay Browne | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Precautionary Principle, Louisiana, Bp, Oil Spill, Greenopia, Ddt, Oil, Exxon Valdez, Green News

No one is focusing on how we may look back at the oil spill as a defining moment in shaping environmental strategy and energy policy for years to come.

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Our Flame Retardants -- Ourselves

Bill Chameides | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Health, Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers, Pcbs, Consumers, Ddt, Chemical Pollution, Chemicals, Fire Retardants, Ozone Hole, Ozone, Freons, Pbdes, Green News

Introduced as the miracle compounds, halocarbons have revealed themselves as fools good. The flame retardant chemical often leach, leading to lower IQs and depressed fertility.

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Lifting the "Body Burden": How to Fight Toxic Exposure and Keep Chemicals Out of Your Home

Simran Sethi | Posted 05.25.2011

From Seventh Generation's discussion on "Children and Chemicals," featuring Jane Houlihan of the Environmental Working Group, pediatrician Dr. Alan ...

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Glenn Beck Praises DDT, Bashes Van Jones, Joni Mitchell And Environmentalists (VIDEO)

Huffington Post | Katherine Goldstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ddt, Silent Spring, Glenn Beck, Video, Glenn Beck Video, Glenn Beck Van Jones, Glenn Beck DDT, Green News

Somehow Glenn Beck's wacky proclamations never cease to amaze both in their inaccuracy and outrageousness. In case you missed this, here's a video of ...

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Born in Wartime, Earth Day Unified the Nation

Trip Van Noppen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Earth Day, Rachel Carson, Clean Water Act, Epa, Mercury, Ddt, Barack Obama, Clean Air Act, Green News

Arriving suddenly -- as a gift whose time had come -- it offered folks something to unite around: the idea of an entire planet, our home, in peril.

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Why Bill Gates Released Swarm Of Mosquitoes On Important People (VIDEO)

treehugger.com | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Gates Mosquitoes, TED Talks, Ted, Malaria, Ddt, Bill Gates, Video, Green News

Kidding aside, it's a good idea for Bill to bug people about how important it is to find more effective preventions and cures for malaria. It'd be a w...

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New York Water Supply Threatened By Mercury Found In Eagles

New York Times | Anthony DePalma | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bald Eagles, Catskills, Green News, Water, New York City, Environment, Mercury, Ddt, Water Crisis, Endangered Species, BioDiversity Research Institute, Drinking Water, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Green News

"If mercury is affecting them, it eventually is going to affect us, as well," Ms. White said. Eagle chicks elsewhere in New York also were tested for...

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Make Chinese Anti-Malarial Drug Makers Caught

TreeHugger | John Laumer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ddt, Malaria Deaths, DDT Control, Malaria, Artesunate, Environmentalists, Business News

Every so often some op. ed. writer infers that all of today's "environmentalists" are responsible for the malaria-caused deaths of innocent children, ...

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