Life Changes
Healing Through Storytelling: Lessons from The Odyssey
The journey of Odysseus in Homer's 'The Odyssey' offers profound insights into healing...
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- Written by: Mark A.S. Laidlaw, RMIT University; et al.
Recent research reveals that shooters, whether professional or recreational, face significant risks of lead poisoning from bullets and airborne particles at shooting ranges. With elevated blood lead levels found in many participants across various studies, understanding the sources of lead exposure and its potential health impacts is crucial for all involved in shooting activities.
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- Written by: Amara Omeokwe, Duke University
The chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, appears to aid the survival of inflammatory breast cancer cells, according to research that reveals a potential mechanism for how the disease grows.
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- Written by: Carrie Koplinka-Loehr, YES! Magazine
What’s at stake in a world where science is marginalized? Programs like AguaClara, which offer sustainable, low-cost solutions to communities in need.
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- Written by: Derek Thompson, University of Missouri
In the United States, Florida has the sixth highest number of hazardous waste sites known as Superfund sites
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- Written by: Lindsey Konkel, Ensia
The rise in recent decades of diseases such as inflammatory bowel disease and rheumatoid arthritis suggests that factors in the environment are contributing.
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- Written by: Conan Milner, Epoch Times
Glyphosate is by far the most heavily used chemical weed killer in human history. It’s so pervasive, it’s difficult to avoid ingesting it on a daily basis.
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- Written by: Elizabeth Grossman, Ensia
In the absence of a federal U.S. policy for schools located near potentially dangerous sites, community activists search for safer solutions.
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- Written by: Julie Cohen, University of California, Santa Barbara
Scientists have now analyzed long-awaited data from the Natural Resource Damage Assessment to determine the specific rates of biodegradation for 125 compounds that settled to the deep ocean floor after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
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- Written by: David R. Montgomery, University of Washington
Most of us considered microbes little more than nasty germs before science recently began turning our view of the microbial world on its head.
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- Written by: InnerSelf Staff
Among the many human, environmental, and economic impacts of global climate change, heat stress itself is perhaps underestimated as a major challenge to health and sustainability.
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- Written by: Brett Israel, University of California, Berkeley
Low-income and Latina pregnant women in a recent study had widespread exposure to environmental pollutants. In addition, many of the toxins showed up at even higher levels in their newborns
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- Written by: Peter Rüegg, ETH Zurich
Cookies containing iron can cause a striking reduction in the blood lead levels of children in regions with high exposure to the toxic heavy metal, report researchers.
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- Written by: Gillian Kiley, Brown University
A decrease in the average level of lead in a preschooler’s blood reduces the probability of that child being substantially below proficient in reading by the third grade, report researchers.
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- Written by: Jim Erickson, University of Michigan
Mercury contamination is widespread across western North America in the air, soil, lake sediments, plants, fish, and wildlife, according to new research.
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- Written by: Tara MacIsaac, Epoch Times
Researchers at George Washington University compiled data from household dust samples collected throughout the United States and found 45 potentially toxic chemicals used in many common products, such as vinyl flooring, personal care and cleaning products, building materials, and furniture.
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- Written by: Richard E. Peltier, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Anyone who has stepped off an airplane in one of the major cities of the developing world has encountered profound and noxious air pollution. In New Delhi, Jakarta,
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- Written by: Barbara Mahe and David Allsop, Lancaster University
Iron is known to be toxic to brain cells, and tiny magnetic iron particles (magnetite) are thought to be involved in the development of neurological disorders.
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- Written by: Elizabeth Grossman, Ensia
The updated Toxic Substances Control Act brings new hope for protecting Americans’ health and environment. Here's what it does — and doesn’t — do.
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- Written by: Sara G. Rasmussen; Brian S. Schwartz, Johns Hopkins University, and Joan A. Casey, University of California, San Francisco
The fracking industry has been an energy success story: Natural gas prices have decreased as fracking has skyrocketed, and natural gas now produces more electricity than coal does, which has resulted in improved air quality.
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- Written by: Sheila Mulrooney Eldred, Ensia
As an emergency room physician in Washington, D.C., it didn’t take long for Leana Wen to notice a pattern
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- Written by: Stephanie Desmon,Johns Hopkins University
Neighbors with the most exposure to natural gas fracking are nearly twice as likely to suffer from some combination of migraine headaches, chronic nasal and sinus symptoms, and severe fatigue.
