What in the Air Causes Lung Cancer?
Many have assumed that air pollution causes cancer, but proof was lacking. Until now.
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Wildfires: Where There’s Smoke There’s Illness
Trying to get a handle on how best to fight wildfires should include understanding the fires' collateral damage.
Will China Ever Be Able to Support Itself Agriculturally?
Food safety is becoming a bigger worry than food security after a series of scandals.
Future Ocean Habitats Built on Plastics?
In the last 40 years there has been a 100-fold increase of plastics in the North Pacific Subtropical…
Ocean Garbage Patches: A Scientific Sifting
From plastic-eating mushrooms to the aerodynamics of hockey gloves, a roundup of unexpected findings from the study of marine trash.
Ocean Health Index: The Audacity of Necessity
The researchers behind the budding Ocean Health Index recognize the hubris of trying to summarize everything from water quality to fishing status to recreation in a single number, but they maintain it’s a necessarily audacious move.
Trash Free Seas Alliance Takes Aim at Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Recognizing the problems of a plastic-choked ocean, the Trash Free Seas Alliance aims to rid the seas of its islands of flip-flops, soda bottles, and plastic bags.
‘Safe Planet’ Uses the Arts to Explain Chemical Exposure Threat
The U.N. enlists the arts to bring home the arcane but vital necessity of reducing the phalanx of chemicals saturating our bodies.
Fireworks: Beautiful, Thrilling … Toxic?
Several recent studies link fireworks to potential health or environmental problems, particularly when they're used in sports arenas or over bodies of water.
Solar Energy Powers Cleanup of Superfund Site
The Frontier Fertilizer Superfund site in Davis, Calif., installs a suite of solar panels, paid for with stimulus funding, to power its own rehabilitation.