Blog entries tagged toxic

Bat Lady Remembered

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 12:00:00 +0100

More than 50 years ago, Patricia Winters got her first bat, and promptly fell in love with it. As an advocate for the small nocturnal flying mammals, she was known throughout the North Bay and beyond as the Bat Lady. She died of cancer at age 70 recently, but shared her enthusiasm and knowledge in an early North Bay Report from January 2006. This is a repeat of that reportRead More...

Hospital Safety

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 07 May 2010 06:00:00 +0100

Even in the controlled environment of a hospital, human error is always a danger, too often a fatal one. That’s what Sorrel King is fighting to reduce.

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Hair Dye Hazard

Bruce Robinson — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:00:00 +0100

As more and more people color their hair, often starting at younger ages, their exposure to the chemicals in those dyes is increasing, and their risk of a cumulative allergic reaction is going up, too.

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Since her own allergic response to PPD, nearly three years ago, Marcia Beauchamp has Read More...

Rachel Carson

Bruce Robinson — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:00:00 +0100

Rachel Carson may have been America’s first environmental whistle-blower. That’s inspired for a west county poet to create her own biographical one-woman show about the author of Silent Spring.

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Fish oil capsules have long been suspected of including small amounts of toxic PCBs, but a new lawsuit contends some manufacturers of the supplements contain far more of the banned chemicals than others.

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"The Poisoner's Handbook"

Bruce Robinson — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:00:00 +0100

Poisonings, both accidental and criminal, have been happening for centuries. But the science of investigating those deaths is barely a hundred years old.

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As she began to research the history of forensic medicine in Jazz Age New York, science writer Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoner's Handbook, says she was struRead More...

Cytotoxins

Bruce Robinson — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:00:00 +0100

Inside the human body, powerful anti-cancer drugs can be life-saving medicine. But when they pass through into the environment, these potent chemicals may pose a health hazard that is only starting to be recognized.

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Prenatal Pollution

Bruce Robinson — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 23:00:00 +0100

Exposure to toxic chemicals in our environment begins early in life--even before birth.

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Ken Cook, President and co-founder of the Environmental Working Group, is a strong proponent for a Kids-Safe ChemicRead More...

Landfill Leak

Bruce Robinson — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 03:00:00 +0100

Although the Sonoma County dump, west of Cotati, has been closed for more than three and a half years, the former manager of the facility says the issues behind its closure are political, not environmental.

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Groundwater mercury

Bruce Robinson — Mon, 29 Jun 2009 03:00:00 +0100

The most harmful form of mercury is being washed into coastal waters through subsurface groundwater, a new study has found, and at rates far higher than from the air. That research was conducted at two Northern California sites, including Stinson Beach (right) in Marin County.

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Somalia Pirates

Bruce Robinson — Mon, 04 May 2009 03:00:00 +0100

There's more to the story of pirates along the Somali coast than just bad guys in boats. In today's report, John Reid, President of the Conservation Strategy Fund in Sebastopol, looks past recent headlines to the root causes of this outbreak of nautical lawlessness.

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