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Dying for a Manicure?
According to the EPA, chemicals commonly used in nail-care products can cause health problems including asthma, cancer, and liver damage.
Comments (0) | December 1, 2007
reviews

Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products
Laura Wright reviews this new book by Mark Schapiro
Comments (0) | December 1, 2007
short takes

Feeding Time in the Lab
Cultivating mosquitoes for malaria research.
Comments (0) | December 1, 2007
letters

Letters from Our Readers: Winter 2008
Readers write in about solutions to global warming, population growth, ecotourism, and more.
Comments (0) | December 1, 2007
short takes

Scaling the Heights
Climate change holds the potential to profoundly affect epidemiologic patterns, and vector biologist Andrew Githeko says malaria is particularly sensitive to this upheaval.
Comments (1) | December 1, 2007
frontlines

Sneezes Can Be Fatal
Recent outbreaks of SARS, Ebola, and avian flu have all fanned anxiety about zoonotic diseases -- those that can move from animals to humans. But humans are not the only ones at risk.
Comments (0) | December 1, 2007
fieldwork

The People's Doctor
As a physician, Gina Solomon tackles pressing environmental health issues in a clinic without walls.
Comments (2) | December 1, 2007
frontlines

They Didn't Mean That
The Bush administration edits the Centers for Disease Control on global warming.
Comments (0) | December 1, 2007
frontlines

A Nasty Gas Attack
With some 1.3 billion cows worldwide, ruminant bad breath accounts for 80 million tons of methane each year -- a gas that is 20 times more effective at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide.
Comments (0) | September 1, 2007
living green

And on Your Left, a Grass-Fed Cow...
Local is the new organic, but saving the family farm may require that you actually go there -- as a tourist.
Comments (1) | September 1, 2007