Soil contamination

School Poisoning Provides Window into India's Pesticide Problem

The recent deaths of 23 Indian schoolchildren was just the latest chapter in the country's long and troubled relationship with chemical pesticides. Host Carol Hills speaks about the problem with journalist Meera Subramanian.

School Poisoning Provides Window into India's Pesticide Problem

States struggle with highway shoulders as resistance to herbicides mounts

States struggle with highway shoulders as resistance to herbicides mounts

Note on Emerging Science – Fungi and Lead

Note on Emerging Science – Fungi and Lead

Pesticides' Influence on IQ

Pesticides' Influence on IQ
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New study links ADHD to pesticide exposure

New study links ADHD to pesticide exposure

From Brownfields to Solar Plains

The country's industrial wastelands could become the new landscape of sustainability.

From Brownfields to Solar Plains

Pesticides and Birth Defects

Research shows that babies conceived during the spring growing period, when levels of agrichemicals in the water are at their highest, are more likely to have birth defects.

Pesticides and Birth Defects
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Witnesses Wait

Officials say New Orleans homes that border a property where DDT, termite killer and Agent Orange were mixed are safe, but their own data calls that into question. One soil sample was the top hit for four banned insect killers in a series of post-Katrina

Witnesses Wait
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New Pesticide, Old Problems

The EPA approves a pesticide that some leading scientists say is highly toxic to humans.

New Pesticide, Old Problems

Navigating Masculinity

Author Cynthia Daniels says society's perception of gender roles- especially men's- may be based on outdated ideas of manliness, not taking into account some of men's reproductive health issues.

Navigating Masculinity
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Emerging Science Note/Weed-Killing Robots

Watch out! Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have created a solar-powered robot capable of searching out and destroying- hopefully just- weeds in crop fields.

Emerging Science Note/Weed-Killing Robots

Navigating Masculinity

Author Cynthia Daniels says society's perception of gender roles- especially men's- may be based on outdated ideas of manliness, not taking into account some of men's reproductive health issues.

Navigating Masculinity
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Emerging Science Note

Researchers in South Africa document excessive levels of the pesticide DDT in women there.

Emerging Science Note
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MTBE Rides Again

As the energy bill goes to the Senate, the gasoline additive MTBE once again becomes a make or break issue.

MTBE Rides Again
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MTBE & Liability

MTBE & Liability