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US EPA Gets Tough on Glyme

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Glyme, one of a family of glycol ethers being put on alert by EPA image Image: Glyme molecule Glyme is a nickname for 1,2-dimethoxyethane, a solvent chemical in the glycol ether family. Glyme, and its close cousins diglyme, and ethylglyme, are suspected reproductive toxins. For example, monoglyme is officially required to carry the warnings "May impair fertility" and "May cause harm to the unborn child" on products sold in the European Union. 11 other substances in the glyme family are chemically similar, but hav...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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How Old Hotel Soap Can Save Thousands of Lives

2:59 pm in atlanta, developing nations, diseases, Food & Health, recycling, tourism, uganda by TreeHugger

hotel soap shampoo toiletries photo Toiletries at a Seattle hotel. Photo: Daniel Morrison / Creative Commons. I'll admit it, I'm a sucker for those little hotel soaps and shampoos and lotions. I rarely go home from a hotel stay without a handful of them stuffed in my bag. But they are wasteful, with hundreds of millions of soap bars discarded ea...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Dengue Fever Vaccine May Be Ready By 2015

9:33 am in diseases, Food & Health, global climate change, global warming effects by TreeHugger

20110617-aedes-aegypti-biting-human.jpg photo: Wikipedia In the race to develop a dengue fever vaccine just a few months ago public sale of such a life-saving medicine was deemed ten years off. Now, Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Clean Water: Who Has It and Who Doesn’t (Infographic)

11:30 pm in diseases, drinking water, food, Food & Health, water conversation by TreeHugger

Clean Water Access InfographicImage via GOOD I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but we have a serious water crisis on our hands. Over one billion people worldwide lack access to clean water, that is approximately one in six people on earth. In fact--sadly--i...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Toxic Cucumbers Kill Eleven, Infect 1,200 in Germany, and May Spread Through Europe

9:05 am in diseases, Food & Health, food safety, germany by TreeHugger

cut-cucumber.jpg Photo: Todd Tyrtle under a Creative Commons license. Over the weekend, an outbreak of E. coli spread throughout Germany, killing eleven people and infecting more than 1,000. Cucumbers have been identified as the source of the bacteria, but the source of the vegetables themselves is unclear. At first, health officials thought two Spanish farms were responsible, but Spain has denied the charges, and the bacteria has been found on cucumbers that may have been grown elsewhere, re...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Azerbaijan’s Petroleum Spas Use Crude Oil Baths To Treat Disease

10:11 am in diseases, Food & Health, oil, tourism by TreeHugger

naftalan-petro-spa.jpgPhoto: Mocuzeli Naftalan Though we often associate ooze-slicked animals with horrific disasters like 2010's BP oil spill, in the Azerbaijani town of Naftalan, 160 miles north-west of the capital Baku, there is a clinic where visitors voluntarily flock to its famous (well, famous at least in the former Soviet Union) clinics to bathe in crude oil. The practice has supposedly been around fo...Read the full story on TreeHugger

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