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Are vegetables grown in "tire gardens" safe to eat?

2 Aug 2018

When it comes to chemical composition, tires are extremely complex. Different kinds of rubber, carbon black, vulcanizing agents, antioxidants, antiozonants, polymerization accelerators,...

Your Allergies Are Getting Worse Because of Climate Change

10 May 2018

If you feel like your recent periods of coughing, sneezing and shaking your fists at the trees for producing so much pollen are getting longer, you鈥檙e probably right.

Strawberry Fields Forever (With or Without Pesticides)

19 Apr 2018

It鈥檚 springtime which means it is time for the Environmental Working Group (EWG) to send the media into a frenzy with its annual release of the 鈥渄irty dozen鈥 conventionally produced fruits or...

Can Science Explain the New Star Wars Planet?

6 Feb 2018

Science fiction movies are usually a little more fiction than science, but you never know where you might catch a glimmer of the real world. For instance, take the bona fide space classic: Star...

Do Not Mess with a Bombardier Beetle!

28 Dec 2017

Why not? Because you risk being sprayed聽with a hot solution containing irritant chemicals known as benzoquinones.聽 In all likelihood it would be a memorable, but unhappy experience.聽 Based on their...

It鈥檚 Thanksgiving and time to talk..turkey

9 Oct 2017

Eventually we will run out of oil.聽 There is no doubt about that.聽 The earth is of a fixed size, and the amount of oil stored in the ground is not infinite.聽 We take it out of the ground and do not...

You鈥檙e sweet, honey, but I鈥檝e got others on my mind

20 Jul 2017

I have been hard at work lately trying to convert a half-acre of lawn into a flourishing pollinator garden at home. Basically, this has involved sowing some seeds and letting it grow. I think I...

The Chlorpyrifos Controversy

7 Jun 2017

鈥淪cience not silence,鈥 screamed the signs carried by many of the marchers in a number of American cities last Earth Day.

Grolar Bears

31 May 2017

Experts believe that the polar bears are traveling south to escape the effects of global warming while the grizzly bears are moving northward thus leading to the creation of a new species: grizzly...

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