It's in Our Water and in Our Toothpaste. Should We Worry? Since the 1940s, municipal water supplies across the United States have been routinely dosed with fluoride. Even if you don't live in the half of America that adds fluoride to the water supply to help prevent tooth decay, low doses of fluoride occur naturally […]
Americans are sweet on sugar–that’s no big news. What is surprising, however, is the size of our sweet tooth. A recent U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) survey found that the average American polishes off the equivalent of 160 pounds of sugar a year.
The Best Natrual Cleaners Get The Job DOne Without A Spectrum Of Irritating Or Toxic Agents.
10 Journeys That Just Might Change The World…Or At Least Your View Of It.
What Are Genetically Engineered Drugs Doing to Our Water Supply? Glen Boyd's students didn't know what they might find as they dipped containers into the water and took them back for tests. What turned up? Medicine. There was cholesterol medication. There was the hormone estrone, a form of the estrogen prescribed to help menopausal women. […]
Toxic Testing, Chemical Reactions and Longevity The Human Genome Project may offer some good news for the environment, too. Some examples: Faster Determination Of What Is Toxic—And For Whom. Everybody wonders what causes cancer. Researchers could place, say, cadmium directly onto a few strands of DNA, and immediately, right before their eyes, watch how the […]
The Human Genetic Blueprint Has Been Drafted, Offering Both Perils and Opportunities for the Environment.
In October, a Massachusetts company, Advanced Cell Technology, set off a storm of controversy when it announced that it had successfully implanted the embryo of a guar, a seriously endangered ox-like animal native to the bamboo forests of India and Burma, in an American cow. The embryo was created from the cells of a guar […]
The GrassRoots Recycling Network Pressures Coke to Use Recycled Plastic.
The Rails-To-Trails Conservancy Is Turning Unused Rail Corridors Into Hiking Trails.
