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A breakthrough technology announced today quickly and cheaply removes metal contaminants like mercury from water. Is the breakthrough a Trojan Horse?

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Late last week Health Canada issued their report on Bisphenol A (BPA) in consumer products, most notably in infant and children’s products.

Chemicals are part of our lives but there are ways to avoid them.

This is a list with ingredients found in hair dye on the US market, but banned in Europe because of health risk association.

A surprising number of the most harmful toxins ever created are found right in our own backyard — indeed, right inside your mop closet. Here are ways you can detoxify your home, make it safe again, and keep it that way.

How to handle the conflicting scientific studies regarding whether or not to use plastic baby bottles containing Bisphenol-A and other chemicals.

Ever wonder what's in umbilical cord

With biodegradable caskets and shrouds, no embalming, and often a tree planted in the honor of the deceased instead of a headstone, green funerals are gaining traction as an environmentally sound option. The best part is besides being morally satisfying, they’re cheaper than traditional funerals! With less preparation and chemicals required and the less extravagant caskets, it takes far less money to have a green funeral.

The second circuit federal appellate court on Thursday will hear a challenge to an EPA rule that allows people to be used as guinea pigs in tests of toxic pesticides. A loophole in the new EPA rule will allow testing of pregnant women, infants and children and the agency provides no guarantee of medical coverage, providing only $300 in compensation.

The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) and IBM are initiating an effort in partnership with Nokia, Pitney Bowes, and Sony have come together to help the environment, unleashing dozens of innovative, environmentally responsible patents to the public domain. The pledged portfolio, dubbed the "Eco-Patent Commons," is available on a dedicated, public Web site hosted by the WBCSD (http://www.wbcsd.org/web/epc).

With rising concerns over antibiotic resistance and toxic chemical fumes in the home, the market for natural alternatives is booming. Now big name players are rushing into the game. Is that a good thing?

Recently,the news program The National on the the Canadian Broadcasting Channel (CBC) reported on the continuing worry and investigation into chemicals in plastics and their effects.

Handmade using only vegetable and essential oils, organic herbs and spices and ... bike power! A unique invention that pairs a bicycle power train with a soap-mixing vat lets our soap makers literally pedal their way through every batch without electricity

Malaysia, Thailand, Colombia, Uruguay and Ghana are poised to become the world leaders in biodiesel production, according to a new study.

Legend has it that an Arabian shepherd named Kaldi discovered coffee. One day he found his goats dancing joyously around a dark green leafed shrub with bright red cherries in the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula. Kaldi soon found out that it was the ...