June 4 2015
What do a pizza box, a polar bear and you have in common? All carry a kind of industrial toxicant called poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFASs, that do two things: They make life convenient, and they also appear to increase the risk of cancer.…
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May 19 2015
“When’s the last time you watched TV by candlelight?” asks Arlene Blum, founder of the Green Science Policy Institute. Blum questions the logic of television sets being coated in chemicals that are either known health hazards or under-researched.…
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May 1 2015
Bottlenose dolphins swimming in a South Carolina harbor, polar bears lumbering across Greenland’s ice sheets, and families inhabiting Ohio River Valley towns share a common secret: Their bodies contain high levels of industrial chemicals that most people have never heard of but are widely used in consumer products. These perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) have been used to manufacture many microwave popcorn bags, carpets, fast-food wrappers, pizza boxes, camping gear, and cookware.…
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Speaker: Rebecca Sutton, PhD
Senior Scientist, San Francisco Estuary Institute
Event: Flame Retardant Dilemma Symposium
February 13, 2015
University of California
Berkeley, CA…
There is no documented case of a wild orca killing a human. It’s time we returned the favor by protecting the health, habitat, and viability of this highly intelligent, vocal, social and powerful species. Orca face many threats including degradation of their hunting habitats, overfishing of their food, disturbance from sea vessels, warming oceans, and chemical pollution. They are exposed to toxic chemicals, some of which have been banned for decades and some in current use. Dr. Peter Ross is…
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30 Jan 2014
In a shallow arm of the bay, where Pacific tides cause hardly a ripple, hundreds of harbor seals lounge, mate and bear young. With placid expressions on bewhiskered faces and bulky bodies reclining on shorelines, the seals belie a disturbing burden they carry.…
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Speaker: Robert Letcher, National Wildlife Research Centre, Carleton University, Canada
Event: Flame Retardant Dilemma Symposium
April 12, 2013
University of California
Berkeley, CA…
Speaker: Susan Shaw, Marine Environmental Research Institute, USA
Event: Flame Retardant Dilemma Symposium
April 12, 2013
University of California
Berkeley, CA…