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Burning Issues
Research and data on wood smoke pollution and combustion particulates. Research shows that 60,000 people in the US die each year from smoke pollution. Site chosen by the BBC Education Directory for excellence in the information presented.
http://Burningissues.org
Long Islanders Against Pesticides
LIAP is a non-profit community education organization providing information on the use of pesticides in the New York and Long Island communities.
http://www.angelfire.com/folk/liap
Canadians Against Pesticides
Informing Canadians of pesticide risks. Actions against pesticides and toxins.
http://www.caps.20m.com/
Lindane Information
Offers scientific articles and reasons to ban the pesticide, Lindane.
http://www.pan-uk.org/banlindane/index.htm
The Women's Environmental Network
WEN campaigns on issues that link women, health and the environment. Campaigns promote positive alternatives to polluting practices and consumer items. Provides information on environmental health, food and genetic engineering.
http://www.wen.org.uk/
Is Global Warming Harmful to Health?
Computer models indicate that many diseases will surge as the earth's atmosphere heats up. Signs of the predicted troubles have begun to appear. Scientific American.
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?articleID=0008C7B2-E060-1C73-9B81809EC588EF21
Toxic Detective - Interview with Dr Dick Van Steenis
Investigation by Dick van Steenis into asthma, cancer and other diseases in areas near power stations and cement works in Britain.
http://www.corporatewatch.org.uk/magazine/issue8/cw8tox3.html
Consumers for a Toxic-Free America Petition
Petition against the toxic and carcinogenic ingredients found in cosmetic, personal care, and household products.
http://www.lindachae.com/petition.htm
Pollution 'Damages Intelligence'
Environmental damage is sapping the intelligence of millions of people globally, says a British social scientist. BBC News.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/722907.stm
WWF Toxics Programme
News, publications, factsheets, and other resources from an initiative to end threats to biodiversity from the use of toxic chemicals.
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/toxics/
Combination of Pesticides Linked to Parkinson's Disease
A combination of two widely used agricultural pesticides - but neither one alone - creates in mice the exact pattern of brain damage that doctors see in patients with Parkinson's disease.
http://www.urmc.rochester.edu/pr/news/archive/park.html
Radioactive Polonium
Article, references and background information on Polonium exposure and the attendant health risks.
http://www.webspawner.com/users/radioactivethreat/index.html
Pesticide Education Center
Provides information on health effects of pesticides. Promote safer alternative pest control methods to the public through videos, books and other materials.
http://www.pesticides.org/
Natural Resources Defense Council - Toxic Chemicals and Health
NRDC provides information, reports, fact sheets and studies on everyday health threats posed by toxic chemicals and pesticides.
http://www.nrdc.org/health/
Pesticide Action Network UK
Provides information on health effects of pesticides, news, campaigns and projects.
http://www.pan-uk.org/
Cancer Incidence in Natick, Massachusetts
Provides information on environmental problems and certain rising cancer incidence data.
http://MMS.TheMillers.com/cancer.html
Safelawn Alliance
Dedicated to highlighting the inherent risk lawn chemicals pose to human and ecological well-being. Offers non-toxic alternatives and downloadable placards.
http://www.safelawn.org
The Ailing EnvironmentĂ‚Â
Perspective by Stephen J. Gislason on how the environment is getting sicker and making people sicker.
http://www.nutramed.com/environment/
Produce Items May Exceed EPA Standards
Pesticide residue levels on produces exceed EPA standards. Washingtonpost.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/pesticides.htm
Pesticide Action Network International
Network of over 600 participating nongovernmental organizations, institutions and individuals in over 60 countries working to replace the use of hazardous pesticides with ecologically sound alternatives. Projects and campaigns are coordinated by five autonomous Regional Centers.
http://www.pan-international.org/
Conspiracy of Silence
Documents a PCB spill and clean up, industries reaction and the eventual ban of the sale of PCB's.
http://www.planetwaves.net/silence2.html
Workplace Toxins Can Kill at Home
Investigation found that employees in more than 35 states have unwittingly transported toxins away from work sites exposing family members. USA Today.
http://usatoday.com/money/bighits/toxin1.htm
The Healthy Community: One for All, All for One
Chapter from the free online book, How to Get the Best Medical Care - A Guide for the Intelligent Patient. Discusses the environments effect on human health.
http://www.thebestmedicalcare.com/book/ch12_1.htm
Greenpeace Chemical Kitchen
Interactive guide of chemicals in kitchen products that cause harmful pollution in the environment and are toxic to humans. Names those cleaning products that do not contain these long-lasting, toxic chemicals.
http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/Products/Toxics/
Beyond Pesticides
National Coalition Against the Misuse of Pesticides provides information on pesticides. Current actions and newsletters including pesticide safety and alternatives.
http://www.beyondpesticides.org/
Insecticide Causes Mad Cow Disease
Research that shows insecticide used in the UK government warble-fly campaigns triggered the UK surge of 'Mad Cow' disease. Latest experiments by Cambridge University prion specialist David R. Brown shows that prions in the bovine spine can be damaged by organophosphate insecticides causing the disease. Optimal Wellness Center News.
http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/17/bovine_spongiform_disease.htm
The Purdey Environmental Home Page
Mark Purdey's research into how organophosphate pesticides and other pollutants may be causing diseases such as BSE, CJD, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Alzheimer's.
http://www.purdeyenvironment.com/
Californians for Pesticide Reform (CPR)
Resource designed to aid in understanding the chronic and acute health impacts of pesticides. Provide review of studies linking pesticides with chronic and acute diseases.
http://www.igc.org/cpr/
Pesticide Watch
Information about pesticides and the problems associated with pesticide use. Provide California communities with the tools they need to protect themselves and the environment from the hazards of pesticides.
http://www.pesticidewatch.org/
Pesticide Action Network Pesticide Database
Provides pesticide information from many different sources. Includes definitions, references and user manual.
http://www.pesticideinfo.org/
Northwest Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
NCAP works to protect people and the environment by advancing healthy solutions to pest problems. Provide news and information on pesticide issues.
http://www.pesticide.org/
Toxic Substances and Kids Developmental Effects
Information about the effects of mercury, toxic metals, endocrine disrupting chemicals, air pollution on kids health.
http://www.home.earthlink.net/~berniew1/
Pesticide Policy Project
Promote development and testing methodologies for crop protection policy reform. Provide information on alternative crop protection methods like integrated pest management.
http://www.ifgb.uni-hannover.de/ppp/
Parents Against Leukaemia
Action group highlighting the possible link between emf and leukaemia. Background information, personal stories, contact information and links.
http://www.pal-uk.org
Penn State Pesticide Use
Pennsylvania arborist obtained list of ten tons of herbicides used at Penn State to maintain lawn and other appearances. This documents his correspondence on subject.
http://www.chesco.com/~treeman/univer/pennstate.html
Pesticide Action Network North America (PANNA)
Organization working to reduce the use of hazardous pesticides world wide.
http://www.panna.org/
Infertility
"The global fertility rate has dropped by nearly half since 1955! The cumulative effects of radiation-caused infertility raise the possibility of gradual human extinction." Article from "The Golem" (no date given).
http://www.applicom.com/pnews/infert.htm
Civitas - Citizens for Planetary Health
Promotes environmental and human health by exposing harmful practices and policies such as relying upon unscientific animal experiments to justify poisoning the environment and to predict the effects of toxins and medicines on humans.
http://www.linkny.com/~civitas/
New York Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides
Provides information to assess the risks posed by pesticide use and alternatives to pesticides,.
http://www.crisny.org/not-for-profit/nycap/nycap.htm
Everydaytoxins.com
Provides information on the dangers from chemicals in household and personal care products and what environmentally-friendly options exist for those with ADHD, ADD, multiple chemical sensitivity.
http://www.everydaytoxins.com/
CQS Health and Environment
Health alert and toxic alert information about health, fitness, and the environment and their intimate connection. Activist group's site. Some alternative views on HIV and AIDS.
http://www.cqs.com/
Composted Kitchen Waste May Put Heavy Metals In The Soil
Some systems of ecological arable farming in developed countries, which use only organic fertilisers contaminate the soil with levels of cadmium, copper and lead which are twice as high as when a combination of both animal manure and artificial fertiliser is used. (Studied samples using kitchen waste)
http://www.scienceagogo.com/news/19990109225423data_trunc_sys.shtml
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