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05/05/2018 / By Edsel Cook

The Great Lakes’ biggest problem: Decades’ worth of pollution has altered the fish

In the 1960s, the Cuyahoga River became infamous for becoming so polluted that it regularly caught fire. Now it suffers a different, subtler kind of water pollution. Decades of discharging chemicals into the waters of the Great Lakes have altered the hormones and metabolism of fish found in the Cuyahoga and two other rivers, according […]

04/15/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Make your laundry cleaner for the environment: Researchers designing ways to treat wastewater from washing machines

You can’t see silver nanoparticles in your clothes – not even with a microscope – but rest assured these tiny particles are present in many of your underwear, towels, socks, and other garments. Ranging in diameter from 1 to 100 nanometers, they are added to give clothes anti-odor and anti-bacterial properties. In fact, a quarter […]

02/13/2018 / By Isabelle Z.

Health Ranger joins Robert Scott Bell for mind-blowing SCIENCE explanation of Tide laundry pods lab tests

Tide laundry pods have been making headlines for all the wrong reasons lately. Designed to make doing laundry more convenient, these colorful pods’ similar appearance to candy has had all kinds of effects that Tide likely never intended. The first problem is poisoning, with young children mistaking the pods for candy, ingesting them, and becoming […]

07/25/2017 / By Isabelle Z.

Did you know most laundry detergents use a battery of toxic chemicals and synthetic fragrance?

You know that great feeling you get after doing the laundry? It’s always satisfying to check a chore off your list, but that feeling is intensified when your hamper has been spilling over for a few days. And when you inhale that fresh and clean scent emanating from your fluffy towels, it’s hard not to […]

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