Originally Published by The NY Times – Consumers are driving a movement toward labeling food products made from genetically modified organisms, and food producers are responding.
Food Companies Seeking Ingredients That Aren’t Gene-Altered
How Michael Pollan Romanticizes Dinner
– Rosy memories of mom in the kitchen might not be as common as Pollan assumes.
Staten Island Residents Want City to Do More to Eliminate Post-Storm Mold in Homes
– Frustration remains, even though New York City has one of the most aggressive antimold programs in the country.
Ubiquitous engineered nanomaterials can cause lung inflammation: Substances are used in everything from paint to sporting equipment
– Scientists have found that breathing ultrafine particles from a large family of materials that increasingly are found in a host of household and commercial products, from sunscreens to the ink in copy machines to super-strong but lightweight sporting equipment, can cause lung inflammation and damage.
Zeal to ensure clean leafy greens takes bite out of riverside habitat in California
– As consumers, we like to hear that produce growers and distributors go above and beyond food safety mandates to ensure that healthy fresh fruits and vegetables do not carry bacteria or viruses that can make us sick.
Japan Nuclear Plant Leaks Radioactive Water
– A Fukushima Daiichi storage pool appeared to have lost almost 32,000 gallons, and thousands more could seep out before it can be pumped dry.
Can repurposed cancer drugs counter bioterror threats?
– Scientists are investigating whether two cancer medications have the potential of protecting U.S. troops from biological agents that could be unleashed during an attack.
Pollution in US rivers is widespread and will persist
– If rivers are a nation’s lifeblood, the US should be on the sick list. More than half of the country’s streams and rivers are in a “poor condition” for aquatic life, according to a survey by the US Environmental Protection Agency. …Read more at the original article here (This article was syndicated in an earlier version of the Earthzine … Read More
Mislabelled fish slip into Europe's menus
Originally Published by the BBC – We are all eating much more fish than we used to – but are we eating the fish we think we are?
International Cooperation Key to World Water Day 2013
Originally Published by ENS – “Water is central to the wellbeing of people and the planet,” UN Secretary General Ban Ki moon said in his video message for the International Year of Water Cooperation 2013. “We must work together to protect and carefully manage this fragile, finite resource.”