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07/12/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Gases from a car air freshener caused a car to explode

Just recently, an automobile blew up without warning in the U.K. – but it wasn’t because of a terrorist plot. An article in Natural Health 365 states that the car exploded due to a build-up of toxic gases from the air freshener. The vehicle was in the parking lot of a B&Q home improvement retail store […]

05/21/2018 / By David Williams

Chemists have just found a new and relatively unknown flame retardant in the environment

Flame retardants are known to cause plenty of problems despite their apparent usefulness in everyday items. Now, there is new evidence that suggests the flame retardant problem may be a lot bigger than earlier thought. Chemists working at Indiana University have discovered an entirely new flame retardant, and they found it out in the environment. […]

02/06/2018 / By David Williams

Removing heavy metals from water: Activated charcoal from palm kernel cake is a low cost biosorbent

Contaminated water contains all sorts of harmful toxins that can result in dangerous diseases in humans. This has led scientists to devise various ways to decontaminate water —-so much so that decontamination has become an industry of its own. One of the primary objectives of decontamination is to remove heavy metals in water, which can cause […]

01/26/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Millions of documents about chemical toxicity have been compiled into database, ToxicDocs, now available online

There is no doubt that toxic products are everywhere you look these days. For every headline about a product recall, there are countless other items that are either ignored or given a free pass, slowly poisoning us and our planet. Public health historians David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz have been documenting the history of toxic […]

01/25/2018 / By Frances Bloomfield

Man-made meteor: New estimates put China’s doomed space station, with toxic chemicals on board, crash landing back to Earth in about 3 months — with many toxins surviving re-entry

In 2016, the Chinese Space Agency conceded that it had lost contact and control of the Tiagong-1, China’s first prototype space station. Officials hypothesized that reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere would occur sometime in 2017. Now, it has been estimated that the Tiagong-1 — which means “Heavenly Place — will finally crash into the earth […]

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