Online News Archive 2006:
Science
December
December 27, 2006
Nutrient removal also extracts pharmaceuticals
December 27, 2006
Smog-creating nitrogen drops in eastern U.S.
December 20, 2006
Plastics component linked to breast cancer
December 20, 2006
Naturally glowing carbon nanotubes tracked in vivo
December 20, 2006
New European pollution data
December 13, 2006
Prions in soil
December 13, 2006
Chemicals in salmon vary by species
December 13, 2006
Atmospheric methane rise stalls
December 6, 2006
Hamster cells bring byproducts into the library
December 6, 2006
Wetlands reduce estrogens from swine wastewater
December 6, 2006
Switch to chloramine raises kids' lead levels
November
November 29, 2006
Coastal pollution grows more dead zones
November 29, 2006
Using mice to study disease
November 28, 2006
Nanotubes persist in natural environments
November 22, 2006
Mercury in western U.S. fish
November 22, 2006
Particulate organic matter from Chinese cooking
November 15, 2006
Perchlorate in Japanese dairy milk
November 8, 2006
PBDEs in Great Lakes fish
November 8, 2006
More nitrosamines in drinking water
November 1, 2006
Perfluorinated surfactants contaminate German waters
November 1, 2006
PBDEs and PCBs in computers, cars, and homes
November 1, 2006
Nitrogen isotopes reveal clues about degradation
November 1, 2006
Wetland declines mask methane growth
October
October 24, 2006
New Orleans soils get clean bill of health—almost
October 24, 2006
Germ fighter works as endocrine disrupter
October 24, 2006
CDC finds perchlorate–iodide connection
October 18, 2006
Northern fires feed southern smog
October 18, 2006
Earth as a different planet
October 11, 2006
Anthropogenic nitrate traced through Chinese groundwater
October 4, 2006
Hormesis gets massive data support
October 4, 2006
Plastic pipes could contaminate water
September
September 27, 2006
Fertilizer from Chile puts perchlorate on the table
September 27, 2006
Rocket fuel masculinizes fish
September 27, 2006
Wildfires unleash mercury from Arctic
September 27, 2006
Pollutants linked to diabetes
September 27, 2006
Cleanup hazards of 9/11
September 20, 2006
Tracking buried CO2
September 20, 2006
Can you catch radiation sickness?
September 20, 2006
Dioxins from Dow
September 20, 2006
California confronts climate change
September 20, 2006
Air conditioning will warm the planet
September 13, 2006
Composting industrial waste
September 13, 2006
Shedding some light on mercury lamps
September 6, 2006
Exxon Valdez oil no longer a threat?
September 6, 2006
Following mercury in a pristine park
September 6, 2006
Pesticides lurk in daycare centers
September 6, 2006
Lichens: Ready environmental sensors
August
August 30, 2006
Condors are shot full of lead
August 30, 2006
Sunlight turns antiepileptic drug into harmful compound
August 23, 2006
Linking atmospheric mercury to fish advisories
August 23, 2006
Pesticides in children
August 16, 2006
Acid rain a growing problem for western Canada
August 9, 2006
What lurks in cooling towers?
August 9, 2006
Fungi partly disarm asbestos
August 9, 2006
Ozone healing delayed
August 2, 2006
Lead in water linked to coagulant
August 2, 2006
Tires and lead: A weighty issue
July
July 26, 2006
Synthetic fragrances perfume lake sediments
July 26, 2006
New consequences of household pesticides
July 26, 2006
Barbiturates’ environmental legacy
July 26, 2006
Emerging toxics from drinking-water treatment
July 26, 2006
Dioxin diminishes in market meats
July 19, 2006
Getting religious on air pollution
July 12, 2006
Plasticizers go from breast milk to baby
July 5, 2006
More than just perchlorate?
July 5, 2006
Searching for impacts of acidifying oceans
June
June 21, 2006
Still life with nanoparticles
June 7, 2006
Plastics chemical alters female brains
June 7, 2006
Ozone, traffic, and developing countries
May
May 31, 2006
Mis-lead
May 31, 2006
Capturing “real world” aircraft emissions
May 24, 2006
Three Gorges Dam chokes off nutrients
May 17, 2006
Do nitrogen cuts benefit the Baltic Sea?
May 10, 2006
Methylmercury explodes after acid rains
May 10, 2006
Groundwater contains VOCs... and some surprises
May 3, 2006
Unknown mechanism for airborne mercury
May 3, 2006
Infant pesticide exposure
April
April 26, 2006
Perchlorate found in produce from around the world
April 26, 2006
Popular antibacterial soap ingredient’s presence in environment could be cause for concern
April 19, 2006
Fish farms harm local food supply
April 19, 2006
Standards needed for disposing of fly ash
April 12, 2006
Snowbanks harbor toxic remains of aircraft deicers
April 5, 2006
Sorting out sources of perfluorinated chemicals
April 5, 2006
Chemical connections
March
March 29, 2006
Dead zones might masculinize fish
March 29, 2006
Chicken poop and arsenic
March 22, 2006
Bottled antimony
March 22, 2006
Scientific challenges for managing water in the western U.S.
March 15, 2006
Will global climate change worsen infectious diseases?
March 15, 2006
Microbes and mercury
March 8, 2006
Perchlorate found in vitamins and elsewhere
March 8, 2006
One in five U.S. women has high mercury levels
March 1, 2006
Can drugs found in water harm humans?
February
February 23, 2006
Top Science Paper Runner-Up: Sucking up data with the Big Shark
February 22, 2006
Perfluorinated chemicals in U.S. population differ by race
February 22, 2006
Skip the taxi and walk
February 15, 2006
Cadmium exposure linked to cancer
February 8, 2006
Boundaries of bacterial biodiversity
February 2, 2006
Top Paper of 2005: The perchlorate surprise
February 1, 2006
Another danger for developing frogs
January
January 25, 2006
Manufacturing leftovers may help explain the puzzling presence of perfluorinated compounds
January 25, 2006
PBDEs in U.S. cars
January 18, 2006
The cloudy side of sunscreens
January 11, 2006
Organic vegetables not pesticide-free
January 4, 2006
Is Arctic PFOA contamination a “blast from the past”?
January 4, 2006
A new flame retardant in the air
