In the News: New Laws to Clean Up the Dirty Impact of Cleansers
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Many of the products that are keeping us clean are actually doing significant harm to the environment.
The US and UK have recently passed legislation to curb or eliminate some of these products... here's the latest news: UK: US: |
“One cleansing product can contain hundreds of thousands of the microbeads, which end up in the oceans after being washed down sinks. Yet natural alternatives that biodegrade and pose no harm to marine life exist, including jojoba beads, apricot kernels, ground nutshells and salt."
-- From "UK Government to Ban Microbeads From Cosmetics by End of 2017"
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Baby Teeth of Iraqi Children Tell Troubling Tale of Toxic Impact of WarAccording to a recent study, Iraqi children are showing signs of alarming levels of heavy metals and other toxins associated with warzone bombardments.
Here are the surprising results that researchers found when they compared the baby teeth of young Iraqi children to donated samples in Lebanon and Iran. |
Indigenous tribes in Panama are losing their rainforest homelands to development, logging, and mining.
Here's how seven tribes are utilizing a technology to help monitor and protect their land- drone surveillance. |
The city of Oslo in Norway has devised a creative way to protect endangered bees that are crucial to food production: a "bee highway." It's an innovative relay system of food and shelter, the first of its kind in the world.
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