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There's new evidence that a widely used family of pesticides called neonicotinoids, already controversial because they can be harmful to pollinators, could be risky for insects and fish that live in water, too.
The evidence comes from Lake Shinji,...
Tea and coffee have been part of my whole life. Some of my earliest memories are of my grandparents letting me make tea on the samovar. And I grew up in Venezuela, where coffee is part of the fabric of life. But my parents frowned on us drinking tea...
When you feed your baby, you may also be serving up mega-doses of lead, arsenic and mercury.
A new investigative study found these toxic, heavy metals in many of the foods produced and marketed for babies.
168 baby foods from major manufacturers...
Lawn chemicals, particularly, ones containing 2,4-D, have been linked to at least two types of canine cancers. Studies found that lawn chemicals travel to neighboring yards and inside homes, and chemicals have been found in the urine of dogs whose...
Many Americans go through great pains to recycle plastic.
But much of that plastic isn’t recycled at all. In fact, the idea that plastics are refashioned into new products is largely a myth, Sharon Lerner writes in The Intercept.
“The...
