by Chris Tachibana | Nov 2, 2014 | ScienceWire
Think before flushing, writes Elizabeth Sharpe. Unused medicines sent down toilets wash into our waterways. University of Washington researchers are testing for drugs and chemicals from soap and shampoo in Puget Sound, and they’re checking for their effects on...
by Chris Tachibana | Oct 3, 2014 | ScienceWire
It’s not just the planet that suffers from climate change, says Lynne Peeples @lynnepeeps—it’s all of us. In a story for The Huffington Post, Lynne described how global temperature changes have human costs. Lynne attended a environmental journalist’s...
by Chris Tachibana | Dec 4, 2013 | ScienceWire
During the darkest month of the year, Priscilla Long muses on environmental disaster, species extinction, climate change…and hope. In “Notes Composed in the Dark of our Time,” a guest editorial for Terrain.org (as Priscilla describes it, “a fine online...
by Chris Tachibana | Aug 3, 2013 | ScienceWire
Seems like only yesterday, but Rachel Berkowitz reminds us it’s been 3 years since the massive explosion and oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. What’s been happening since then? You might not expect “research” to be the answer, but Rachel explains, in her story for the...
by Chris Tachibana | Aug 3, 2013 | ScienceWire
And when you dump your old phone, Deirdre Lockwood has some good news about what might happen to your garbage and the 20 to 50 million tons of other electronic waste the world generates each year. The plastics and metals of e-waste are environmental hazards, but in a...
