Michelle Obama vs. Agribusiness

If you haven't heard, Michelle Obama is planting a vegetable garden on the White House lawn. She has decided to forgo the use of any chemicals and go organic "to promote fruits and vegetables as part of a healthy diet".  Upon receipt of this news Mid America CropLife...

Recognizing harmful chemicals in the products we use

Did you ever stop to think about what we put into out bodies when we put products ON our bodies? More and more products are being discovered as having harmful chemicals in them which, over time, penetrates to the...

Medicines: Public confusion as to medical confusion?

Chemicals or the rearrangement of atoms comprise everything on Earth and as Humans we are very succeptable to chemical imbalance given the chemicals in the food that we consume and the polluted air that we breath but Chemical Medicines in themselves can create imbalances too...

Millworkers ordered to stay on MacKenzie job to avoid gas spill

Emergency Environmental Legislation has been invoked at the MacKenzie pulp mill in BC, meaning staff and workers have to stay on the job and cannot go on strike, otherwise a potentially deadly leak of 15 tonnes of...

Ants restrained from undesired reproduction by peers

Normally worker ants are not supposed to mate. Their job is to build a hive and care for the hive queen’s offspring instead. But a new study showed that when worker ants actually break the taboo and reproduce,...

ToxicToys - 1 in 3 tested found toxins

A study done this past week has found that 1 in 3 popular toys on our store shelves this holiday season have significant levels of toxic chemicals including lead, flame retardants, and arsenic.  Some products...

Mars Lander Succumbs to Winter

"Mission managers said Monday that they had not heard from the NASA spacecraft for a week and that they thought it had probably fallen quiet for good.“At this time, we’re pretty convinced that the vehicle is...

Can green tea protect against cancer?

The humble cuppa could be a cancer killer as well as as providing its traditional refreshing restorative powers when taking a break from work.Alternative and complimentary therapists have long made health...

Plastic poses another potential problem

Two more chemicals exuded from plastics now appear to pose potential problems. Two substances leaching from polypropylene --  quaternary ammonium biocides and oleamide -- have been flagged by medical researchers at the University of Alberta as biologically active enough...

Terror police raid 7/7 'bomb factory' flat

A flat allegedly used to plan the 7/7 terror attacks in London has been raided in the UK. It is unclear why the flat is being raided now, so long after the attacks, which occured in 2005."Officers began the search of the flat at 7am after receiving information from a member...

YOUR HEALTH vs CHEMICAL SYNONYMS

In reading a briefing article by the US FDA concerning contaminated animal feed it became very interesting on reading the remark “…..as we learn more and we get the ingredient side of this figured out,…”. What is really talked about here are CHEMICALS. Indeed was it...

HRT 'can cut risk of breast cancer for at-risk women'

HRT treatment can cut the risk of breast cancer for 'at risk' women a new study from Toronto University reports. the use of HRT has been a controvesial issue with some studies claiming that it actually...

Hubble Discovers Life Basics On Distant Sphere :: Oblate Spheroid

"The upgraded Hubble telescope, with its perch circling above the Oblate Spheroid out in space, has discovered what is considered the basic evidence of the “signature” that life (as we understand it) could...

Expired Medications leech into ground water

Here is one of those issues which just does not register in your mind at first. We are always talking about "what" leeches into our ground water, but for me the concept of expired prescription drugs never came...

Lander grabs Mars water, will see if it's life-supporting

"(CNN) -- The Phoenix lander got its robotic arm onto a sample of water ice from Mars' surface and popped the ice into tiny, onboard "ovens" that will help determine if the water could support life, NASA researchers said Thursday. ...

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