Stories by Lindsey Konkel

A coolant made from soybean oil and a more ecofriendly white paint are among the winners of the 2013 Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards

American Geophysical Union adds legal counseling to its Fall Meeting agenda, citing scientists' need to defend against increasing attacks on research, correspondence and public statements

Six decades ago, Romanians were promised economic prosperity as their country was industrialized, but in most cases, they were left with collapsed buildings, poisoned soils and disoriented communities

New research provides evidence that antibiotic resistance has spread beyond hospitals and farms to wildlife

A new study by researchers in Quebec is one of the first to investigate potential human health effects of pyrethroids, which are used in more than 3,500 commercial products

Scientists have documented for the first time that banned flame retardants have declined in people in the United States in a small study

The impacts of air pollution on the lungs and the heart have been widely documented for decades. But until now, few researchers have paid attention to the gastrointestinal tract

Women in Northern California farm towns gave birth to smaller babies if they lived within three miles of strawberry fields and other crops treated with the pesticide methyl bromide, according to researchers

Coal-fired power is losing its grip in the U.S. and the Northeast is leading the way, as part one of this two part series explores

Ocean waters are clean enough again to support oysters but global warming could undermine recent gains

A study of San Francisco Bay Area women is the first to link DDT exposure in the womb to a greater risk of developing high blood pressure later in life

The lives of mothers, daughters and granddaughters in the Bay Area may offer clues to the link between chemical exposure and disease

Vials of blood from the 1960s may help resolve why women without a family history still developed breast cancer

Big ski resorts have the resources to adapt to global warming but smaller hills may be wiped off the map as New England's winters change

Beset by subtle biases, women are struggling to find their place in academia, with consequences for all of us

Dogs and cats now suffer from obesity, diabetes, heart disease, cancer and more, just like humans, and researchers are now investigating common risk factors for pets and owners

Chemicals that mimic the human hormone may increase the risk of uterine and ovarian diseases

Stress combines with pollution to make some children more susceptible to health problems

Children exposed to higher levels of PCBs in the womb, score lower on focus and concentration tests

Women who drink water contaminated with low levels of the weed killer atrazine may be more likely to have irregular menstruation and low estrogen levels, according to a new study

New research has turned up evidence of a link between endocrine-disrupting chemicals in the environment and an inability to get pregnant

The jury is out on the balance of benefit and harm from testing for dementia that results from an incurable disease

New evidence suggests that breathing nickel and other metals can lead to lung and heart damage, and even death

New studies suggest that eating large amounts of soy’s estrogen-mimicking compounds might reduce fertility in women, trigger early puberty and disrupt development of fetuses and children