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Ice core drilling in the Arctic reveals trapped methane, a greenhouse gas believed to contribute to climate change. Landfills (bottom photo) don't always have monitors to burn off methane emitted by buried waste. 84

Global Warming, Health and Methane Gas

by Carol Bogart

The adage, "What you don't know can't hurt you," anything but true when it comes to America's improperly abandoned landfills. Uncapped and unlined, such landfills spew out methane gas: a threat to human health... published 13 months ago

5 comments    health environment cancer

Old houses painted in flaking lead-based paints are a known source of lead contamination in children.67

Toxic Metals

by Carol Bogart

"Children are not small adults," say those who track diseases and their environmental triggers. Children exposed to even small amounts of lead, for example, may suffer permanent damage to their IQs and... published 12 months ago

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Permanent changes to the genetic makeup of a developing embryo may result from in-utero exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals, or EDCs.62

Endocrine Disrupters

by Carol Bogart

Everything from obesity to prostate cancer. That's what researchers say could be triggered by prenatal exposure to an array of chemicals suspected to be endocrine disrupters. According to a report on the... published 12 months ago

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