October 4, 2012, 2:05 PM
A new UC San Diego study suggests that the byproducts of a chemical used in plastic found in the lining of cans may disrupt human hormone function more than the chemical itself. The study, published today in PLOS ONE, may help explain why the chemical bisphenol A, or BPA, has been tied to many...
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April 30, 2012, 12:05 AM
The cause célèbre of plastic litter in the ocean is the Texas-sized, swirling island of plastic debris thousands of miles off the coast of California in the Pacific Ocean. But researchers from the Universities of Washington and Delaware and the Sea Education Association in Woods Hole, Mass.,...
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August 29, 2011, 12:05 AM
Furious about the chemical industry’s footprint in a state-sponsored environment curriculum, a librarian at Santa Cruz High School has started a petition to have the industry’s influence removed. As of this morning, Veronica Zaleha had garnered nearly 24,000 signatures on the...
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