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Letters from Our Readers: Fall 2007
Readers write in about sustainable consumption, wind farms, our genes and the environment, and more.
Comments (0) | September 1, 2007
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Our Silver-Coated Future
Nanotechnology is poised to transform our lives: miraculous cancer treatments, perfect sunscreens, a super new power grid. One problem: Nobody knows if this multi-billion-dollar enterprise is actually safe.
Comments (15) | September 1, 2007
frontlines

Q & A: Our Weather Man
Meet Howard Frumkin, the physician whose job is to protect the health of our nation against the onslaught of global warming.
Comments (0) | September 1, 2007
short takes

Smaller Is Weirder
Nanomaterials have a much higher surface-to-mass ratio, and while this makes them good for such purposes as water filtering, it also could cause them to interact with body cells that their tiny size allows them to infiltrate.
Comments (0) | September 1, 2007
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Looking Deep, Deep Into Your Genes
How does the environment affect our DNA? Using a new generation of powerful genetic tools, scientists are finding unexpected answers that could revolutionize our understanding of the causes and prevention of disease.
Comments (2) | June 1, 2007
reviews

The Medical Landscape
Florence Williams reviews Linda Nash's Inescapable Ecologies: A History of Environment, Disease, and Knowledge.
Comments (0) | June 1, 2007
frontlines

The UN's Facelift
If you're planning to follow Werner Schmidt on his famous "dirty tour" of the United Nations headquarters, here's what I suggest: Bring your hazmat suit.
Comments (0) | June 1, 2007
multimedia

Inside the Diesel Death Zone

Comments (0) | April 9, 2007
feature stories

The Real Price of Gold
Invisible to most of us, dirt-poor miners in the Amazon Basin work with one o the world's most notorious toxins--mercury--to turn river mud into nuggets of precious metal.
Comments (1) | March 1, 2007
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Waste Not Want Not
In Pittsburgh, a small organization called Global Links has devised an ingenious solution to the problem of waste in American hospitals: Rescue what we throw out, ship it overseas, and save lives.
Comments (0) | December 1, 2006