chemicals
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The water crisis the Trump administration didn’t want you to know about
A new study shows U.S. drinking water is contaminated with high levels of chemicals that are harmful to humans -- even in very low doses.
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This 15-year-old is fighting to keep flame-retardant chemical out of Gatorade
Sarah Kavanagh is 15, a vegetarian, and a resident of Hattiesburg, Miss. She also sometimes drinks Gatorade.
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PSA: Drinking liquid nitrogen is a bad idea
“Duh,” you say? Tell that to a British teen who just had to have her stomach removed.
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The prettiest road spill you’ll ever see
Paint spilled all over the highway outside of Manaus, Brazil
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‘Water cafe’ sells filtered bottled tap water and nothing else
Bottled water is often just tap water in a bottle. A new store is basing their entire business plan on that concept: They sell nothing but bottled tap water.
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Tsunami debris on the West Coast could be ‘far worse than any oil spill’
Last year’s tsunami in Japan threw 1.5 million tons of debris into the ocean. It’s starting to show up on the West Coast — a soccer ball here, a motorcycle there, a 66-foot, 165-ton dock. According to the Associated Press, more might be coming. Or it might not. But when the debris arrives, if enough […]
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Spacecraft could be killing endangered antelope
Add these two factoids to your store of knowledge about Kazakhstan, which, admit it, consists mostly of “It’s on the Risk board?” (it’s not! You’re thinking of Kamchatka) and “Borat is from there.” The central Asian country provides habitat for the endangered saiga antelope, which has a face like a fuzzy alien from Sesame Street. […]
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Cape Cod woman finds bike she lost 40 years ago
Forty years ago, in 1970, little Lisa Brown was riding her totally rad banana-seat bike through the woods of Cape Cod. She approached the Herring River, but the only way to cross it was a rickety plank board bridge. When Brown started out on the bridge it was two feet wide, but halfway across it […]
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Flame retardants could affect our bodies for generations
Flame-retardant chemicals are building up in our bodies, with unknown effects. To add insult to injury, they don't actually retard flames.