Tag: Chemicals - Page 11
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5 Great Rain Barrel Designs, Plus Top Tips for Using Them
Droughts and possible water rationing have been in the news recently in California, Israel, Mexico, and Australia. As much of the water used is these regions is for watering gardens and lawns
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Canada Becomes First Country to Officially Declare BPA a Health Hazard
This Saturday, Canada will become the first nation to formally declare that bisphenol A is a hazard to human health. The country already placed a ban on using the chemical in baby bottles, but this move will land BPA on the
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The Cleaning Quiz: Which Methods of Cleaning are Healthiest and Most Effective?
Do you think you know how to keep your home clean, while also keeping yourself, your family, and the environment safe while doing it? Let's put your knowledge to the test... The following is a series of questions posed from
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Zaproot Easter Special & Alternative Autos (Video)
From the sublime (enviro quotations from theologians) to the mundane (eco Easter-egg-dyes) to the insidious (untested chemicals released to market) ZapRoot's Easter special has all that plus alternative automobiles you can out your faith into.This is
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Faux tan with Europe's greenest beauty brand
Skip the UVB parlor with an organic tan -- sans sun. Photo via: Flickr by Whatshername? Eva Mendez, Debra Messing and Tim Daly rave about Lavera's beauty product collection from moisturizers to lip balms. But how many stars admit to using the
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Physics Meets Flatpack with Sarah Paculdo's Flat Chair Project
Industrial Designer Sara Fisher Paculdo has an undergrad degree in physics; she probably needed it to figure this one out.
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EPA Plan For Animal-Friendly Chemical Toxicity Testing - At Taxpayer Expense?
Environmental Leader has a well written report explaining how EPA is Changing the Way it Tests Chemical Toxicity "Using recent advances in molecular biology, genomics,
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Vinyl Flooring and Phthalates Linked to Autism in New Study
TreeHugger has been reporting for years about the dangers of phthalates, the endocrine disruptor that is used to make vinyl flexible. We have noted previously that it might cause "phthalate syndrome"- smaller penises, and undescended or incompletely
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Denise Richards and Her 'Natural' Fake Bake Tan
Tanned skin, once reserved for farmers and outdoor workers, then for the rich who wintered in warm places, is now available to us all through the wonder of self-tanning products. But self-tanners used to turn people a frightening shade of dirty orange.
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Should I Worry About Deadly Mercury In My CFLs?
Image via Wikipedia.com Dear Pablo: I know that compact fluorescent lights (CFLs) are much more efficient, but I have also heard that they contain mercury. What is a TreeHugger to do? In response to my article on dimmable CFLs I received a lot of
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SIGG Introduces New EcoCare Liner
Dubbed the EcoCare Liner, the new
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Clif Bar Launching iPhone App for Green Ski Resorts
Clif Bar is putting out a new iPhone app called Save Our Snow that will give you not only the snow conditions at your favorite ski resorts, but also tell you the environmental steps the resorts are taking to fight global warming, so
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Sun-Powered Self-Healing Plastic - The End of Scratched Gadgets?
Two clever scientists from the University of Southern Mississippi have developed a plastic that can utilize UV rays to heal scratches. Think of the way skin mends itself when cut, except imagine that
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The Transsexual Fish Mystery
An Increasing Number of Male Fish are Developing Female Traits Around the world, it is more and more common to find male fishes with female traits. Some even produce eggs! This has been blamed on chemicals that find their way into water and mimic the
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Australia Coughs Up $26 Million to Investigate Livestock Burping
It has often discussed on TreeHugger that a diet of less meat will help reduce our contribution to greenhouse gas emissions (See links below). And one of the reasons for this is that chewing a heap of grass, as most cattle and sheep are prone to do,
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Shocking Socks: Electrifying Changes Come to Wool Production
Yesterday we talked about the marvels of sheeps wool, and how its microsopic scales (image above) help make it one of nature’s warmer fibres. We also mentioned how super fine merino is bred so its scales are tiny enough not to become a skin irritant.
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Human-Generated Aerosols May Be Masking the Warming Effect of Climate Change
We've discussed how Australia has been experiencing new extremes of weather. A dry, hot, bushfire ravaged south and a rainfall flooded north. And how these extremes may be the product of climate change.
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Northern Leopard Frog Threatened By Agrochemicals
It seems like frogs just can't catch a break. Scientists have been warning us about the global decline in amphibian populations for years. Habitat destruction, disease and chemicals are commonly cited as causes of
