- Environmental ills? It's consumerism, stupid https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/environmental-ills-its-consumerism-stupid/ 3 comments environment
- Scientists developed a method using a DNA biomarker to easily screen pregnant women for harmful prenatal environmental contaminants like air pollution linked to childhood illness and developmental disorders. This approach may help identify newborns at heightened risk for health problems. https://www.publichealth.columbia.edu/public-health-now/news/scientists-develop-blood-test-predict-environmental-harms-children 3 comments science
- UN: Environment is deadly, worsening mess, but not hopeless | Earth is sick with multiple & worsening environmental ills killing millions of people yearly, a new UN report says. But the same document says changes in the way the world eats, buys things, gets its energy & handles its waste could help https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/un-environment-is-deadly-worsening-mess-but-not-hopeless-1.4333887 8 comments worldnews
- A new study has found children and adolescents who grow up with one or more of these environmental risk factors are likely to resort to violence, aggression and crime as adults, irrespective of an underlying mental illness https://eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-05/s-caa052418.php 4 comments science
- Dozens of Canadian-made or imported products, including baby bibs, mats and blankets, contain chemicals with known links to cancer and hormone-related illnesses, according to a study by the NAFTA environmental protection agency. https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/2018/05/15/toxic-chemicals-found-in-canadian-baby-products-study-finds.html 4 comments worldnews
- Gov. Mike Pence recently declared that Indiana will not comply with the Environmental Protection Agency’s new Clean Power Plan, calling it “ill-conceived.” However, it is Pence’s position that is ill-conceived, since it will endanger the health of the most vulnerable residents of our state http://www.jconline.com/story/opinion/readers/2015/07/08/op-ed-pence-climate-change-social-justice/29863063/ 5 comments politics
- Fellow science lovers, this is my grandfather. He's an environmental scientist and an aquatic biologist. I wasn't sure where else to post this, but hes been ill for a long time now, and I don't want him to be forgotten when he's gone. http://www.ktre.com/story/20261308/sfa-aquatic-biologist-and-world-traveler-featured-in-the-rotarian 10 comments science
- Florida raises ill-fated artificial reefs; When people began dumping used tires in the ocean 40 years ago to create artificial reefs, they gave little thought to the potential environmental cost, or to how difficult it would be to pick them up. http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticnews/idusn2943349920070709?sp=true 6 comments reddit.com