Stories by Environmental Health News

Merchants, townspeople in Peru face similar risks to gold miners

The extra speed provided by ski wax comes at a cost--perfluorochemicals

Many agricultural pesticides disrupt male hormones, according to new tests

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has known for decades that kids have too-easy access to a new generation of super-toxic rat poisons. Every year more than 10,000 kids are getting hold of them, and virtually all of the calls to U.S. poison control centers concern children under six. New regulations to protect children and wildlife go into effect next year

Owls are dying under gruesome circumstances, bleeding to death from stomach hemorrhages. The culprit: An extra-potent class of rodenticides that has flooded the market in recent decades, Part 1 of 2

On the beaches of the Hawaiian islands, monk seals are dying from a pathogen in cat feces that is carried to the ocean in polluted runoff and sewage

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and National Academy of Sciences will collaborate to ensure the agency's policies are driven by sustainability

Kitchen cleaners, glass sprays and other household cleaning products will be reformulated to reduce smog-forming compounds

Los Angeles, Cleveland, Muncie, and 13 other U.S. areas violate new lead standard, EPA says

Children who sleep in bedrooms containing fumes from water-based paints and solvents are two to four times more likely to suffer allergies or asthma, according to a new scientific study

More than 90 percent of pregnant women had detectable levels of BPA from a variety of sources, according to new research

Twenty-five years after the worst outbreak of pesticide poisoning in U.S. history, an agreement is announced that phases out all uses of aldicarb

A study in Krakow, Poland, corroborates New York City findings that link children's lower IQ scores with mothers' exposure to compounds created by burning fossil fuels

Driven by revelations of lead in children’s toys, hormone-mimicking chemicals in plastic baby bottles and controversial flame-retardants in furniture, state environmental officials drafted a set of rules aimed at products with chemicals that have been linked to illness or abnormal development

High levels of brominated flame retardants can alter pregnant women’s thyroid hormones, which are critical to a baby’s growth and brain development, according to a California study

The EPA, declaring that endosulfan is unsafe for farm workers, moves to ban one of the last organochlorine pesticides left in the U.S. Like DDT, endosulfan accumulates in the environment and in the bodies of people and wildlife, and is transported around the world to remote places

Some experts say a decades-old estimate that six percent of cancers are due to environmental and occupational exposures is outdated and far too low

A family of chemicals virtually unknown to the public but important to industry is now under EPA review

California regulators aim to fill in the gap on chemicals that have not been evaluated for toxicity

A presidential panel warns about human exposure to carcinogens

Thirty-eight years after DDT was banned, Americans still consume trace amounts of the infamous insecticide every day, along with more than 20 other banned chemicals

Sun exposure has always been considered the driving force behind rising rates of melanoma. But new research suggests that repeated, long-term use of pesticides may be an important factor, too

Warning that the powerful poisons can endanger dogs and cats, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will require new instructions and labeling for flea products