AltWeeklies Wire
New Report Casts Bad Light on Popular Sunscreensnew
The nonpartisan, nonprofit Environmental Working Group studied 952 sunscreens with a SPF of 15 or higher and discovered that 80 percent contain harmful chemicals and didn't really protect skin from the most damaging rays of the sun.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Amanda Witherell |
08-13-2008 |
Science
Global Warming Means Sweating it Out This Summernew

"Going green" may be an annoying trendy catch phrase, but there's something to be said for turning down the global thermostat before we all drown in a pool of our own sweat.
Boston Phoenix |
Clif Garboden |
06-12-2008 |
Science
Environmental Racism in the South Bronxnew
One in four children in the Hunts Point neighborhood has asthma. While urban planners and public health specialists are still struggling to find the cause for the community's disturbingly high asthma rates, for parents like Tanya Fields there is no question that it's the air they breathe that makes their children wheeze.
New York Press |
Gabriele Steinhauser |
05-08-2008 |
Science
Preventing Breast Cancernew
Activist Jeanne Rizzo says there are plenty of things we could be doing to prevent breast cancer.
Pacific Sun |
Jill Kramer |
04-04-2006 |
Science
Tags: environment, women's health
Botanists Set Out to Chronicle Our Biological Heritagenew

From the command center of Missouri Botanical Garden, brigades of taxonomists are fanning out to identify all the continent's plants, past and present. Their results will be recorded in the 30-volume Flora of North America encyclopedia.
Riverfront Times |
Kristen Hinman |
02-01-2005 |
Science