Chemicals In Everyday Products Turning Boys Into Girls?
A new report from the Danish Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), highlights the critical risks facing toddlers from gender bending chemicals in everyday products.
A new report from the Danish Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), highlights the critical risks facing toddlers from gender bending chemicals in everyday products.
Samuel S. Epstein | Posted 10.06.2009 | Living
Babies are about 100 times more sensitive to carcinogens than adults. Infants and young children have immature liver enzymes, which give them only limited ability to detoxify carcinogens.
Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 11.16.2009 | Green
Every day, single-use plastics ("SUPs" bottles, bags, packaging, utensils, etc.) made from petrochemicals are thrown away in huge quantities after one use, but they will last virtually forever.
Nena Baker | Posted 09.20.2009 | Living
A growing stack of laboratory research suggests that some of the chemicals used in everyday items predispose an individual to the battle of the bulge, despite normal diet and exercise.
Deirdre Imus | Posted 09.11.2009 | Living
Like it or not, vaccines are likely the largest source of one-time exposure to endocrine-disrupting chemicals in early infant development.
Kerry Trueman | Posted 08.16.2009 | Green
Will Nick Kristof's below-the-belt exposé resonate in the Beltway, which suffers inordinately from an absence of balls and an abundance of little pricks?
Nena Baker | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green
We have a right to know what's in us, no matter how disturbing.
Sarah Janssen | Posted 03.09.2009 | Living
Phthalates (pronounced thal-ates) are chemicals used in many common consumer products, including as softeners of plastic children's toys -- like a rubber ducky.
Frances Beinecke | Posted 11.28.2008 | Living
I am a breast cancer survivor, and in the years immediately after my diagnosis, I sometimes found the annual proliferation of pink ribbons difficult--it was hard to be reminded of cancer.
Andrew Winston | Posted 10.04.2008 | Green
Most execs certainly see the need to do more than what the government is asking. And many forces are coming to bear on companies, making green a profitable (not optional) path.
Christopher Gavigan | Posted 08.09.2008 | Green
The final day of July 2008 may go down in history as the moment the tides of democracy shifted away from corporate cronyism and back to the people.
Christopher Gavigan | Posted 11.11.2009 | Living