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What to Do About Endocrine Disruptors? A Q&A with Linda Birnbaum
Nearly a year ago, toxicologist Linda Birnbaum was named director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program. She sat down with Environmental Health News journalist Jane Kay in San Francisco on Wednesday to answer questions about the environmental health risks we face today.
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Homes That Use Thermal Inertia to Maintain Comfortable Temperatures
By harnessing the ability of materials to store heat and give it off slowly, "Enertia" houses maintain a relatively fixed and comfortable temperature -
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Cracked Corn: Scientists Solve Maize's Genetic Maze
Boasting more genes than humans, the corn genome proved difficult to decode -
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Can Flywheels Help Balance Electricity Supply and Demand?
Beacon Power hopes to demonstrate the feasibility of the old technology to help balance fluctuating inputs from renewables -
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Measuring the Daily Destruction of the World's Rainforests
According to the United Nations's Food and Agriculture Organization, overall tropical deforestation rates this decade are 8.5 percent higher than during the 1990s
Skate punk'd: Taxonomic "oops" put rare fish species in danger of extinction
Sinking Global Warming: Is There a Reliable Way to Track Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels?
Illuminating the Lilliputian: 10 Bioscapes Photo Contest Winners Revealed
Curbing population growth crucial to reducing carbon emissions
Antarctic temperature spike surprises climate researchers
Getting Those Varmints to Vamoose without Lethal Measures
More important than Copenhagen? U.S.-China deal on energy and climate
Fish Kill: Nanosilver Mutates Fish Embryos
E-Transportation Jump-Start: Coalition Seeks to Pave the Way for Electric Vehicles
Putting Madness in Its Place: Can the Environment Explain Schizophrenia's Hereditary Patterns?
Are lower catch limits enough to save the bluefin tuna from extinction?
Skate punk'd: Taxonomic "oops" put rare fish species in danger of extinction
Growing Skyscrapers: The Rise of Vertical Farms
More important than Copenhagen? U.S.-China deal on energy and climate
Putting Madness in Its Place: Can the Environment Explain Schizophrenia's Hereditary Patterns?
Illuminating the Lilliputian: 10 Bioscapes Photo Contest Winners Revealed
Fish Kill: Nanosilver Mutates Fish Embryos
Sinking Global Warming: Is There a Reliable Way to Track Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Levels?
Adapting to the Freshwater Crisis
A Plan to Power 100 Percent of the Planet with Renewables
Cracked Corn: Scientists Solve Maize's Genetic Maze
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December 2009 Issue
Does Inflammation Trigger Insulin Resistance and Diabetes?
Conditional Consciousness: Predicting Recovery from the Vegetative State
Crack Research: Good news about knuckle cracking.
The Double Life of ATP in Humans
Piercing the Plasma: Ideas to Beat the Communications Blackout of Reentry
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