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Find Out What the Unpronounceable 8-Syllable Ingredients in Your Personal Care Products are Doing To You

Hunt-and-peck the ingredient's name into Environmental Working Group's Cosmetic Safety Database (it's called "Cosmetic", but it's all personal-care products, not just makeup). For many ingredients, the results are not pretty.
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Guess what? Your body is full of toxic waste.

Body burden. Toxic trespass. Chemical contamination. What does it all mean?Each of these phrases refers to the load of synthetic chemicals that each human being on this planet carries. Yes, even you. Not even people who practice subsistence fishing in remote Alaskan villages escape the chemical background noise of the industrial age.In fact, those people can be more heavily contaminated with mercury, arsenic, lead, PBDEs and other chemicals than people living in a city because...
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What You Ought to Know About That New Car Smell

If you Google "phthalates" (if you can spell phthalates), wanting more information about the notion you've heard that many plastic products contain potentially harmful chemicals, two of the first websites that pop up are www.phthalates.com ("Phthalates Information Centre Europe") and www.phthalates.org ("Phthalate Information Center"). Both these reliable-sounding websites feature friendly reassurance that the media is getting it wrong and that, in fact, phthalates, a family of chemical plasticizers used in a boggling variety of everyday...
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Mystery of the missing bees

If I had skinned that bee, I could have made a pair of bumblebee-fuzz mittens. Seriously. It was huge. Via the New York Times (months ago, but I just learned about this and it's freaking me out): Millions of bees are disappearing all over the US and nobody knows why. This is threatening, among other things, our ability to produce food. 
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When Mother Nature has PMS -or- "Holy $#!& look at that cloud!"

This summer, my boyfriend's uncle and his significant other went camping in Arkansas. During the night, there was a storm of Biblical proportions. Rain blowing sideways. Hail. The doomsday roar of nearby tornadoes."I've been in tornadoes before," he told me. (My eyes were like saucers.) "I know what they sound like. Found out the next day there were seven or eight of them around us." Luckily, he and his SO escaped unhurt.I've been caught in nasty...
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