You can’t expect to have healthy people in a dirty environment.
Category: toxicology
William H. Schlesinger
agriculture, environmental health, faculty, food, lakes and streams, toxicology, water pollution
agriculture, environmental health, faculty, food, lakes and streams, toxicology, water pollution
Atrazine
Atrazine resembles the growth hormones of other organisms, including frogs and potentially humans.
William H. Schlesinger
agriculture, air pollution, environmental health, faculty, natural habitat, pesticides, toxicology, water
agriculture, air pollution, environmental health, faculty, natural habitat, pesticides, toxicology, water
One toke over the line sweet Jesus
Marijuana production by agribusiness will likely reduce direct impacts on nature
Carbon Dioxide and Mental Health
we should pay more attention to indoor CO2 levels
Leaded Soil
the legacy of lead deposition in the environment will remain with us for decades.
Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyls
we must depend on federal regulations that prevent the purposeful or inadvertent contaminations of the environment from affecting the health of all of us.
Earth Day + 49
The studies of DDT suggest that we should be skeptical of new endocrine-like compounds that are offered to improve our daily life.
The Frogs are Speaking to Us
The human population is more vulnerable to catastrophic pandemics than at any time since the Black Death.
On Losing Your Marbles
Several new studies suggest that air pollutants in general—gases as well as particles—may be responsible for widespread cognitive decline in the human population
Bill Schlesinger
air pollution, environmental health, faculty, lakes and streams, toxicology, water, water pollution
air pollution, environmental health, faculty, lakes and streams, toxicology, water, water pollution
Hurricane Florence: déjà-vu all over again.
Hurricane Florence provides a stark demonstration of how runoff and overflows can contaminate waterways with hog waste and coal-ash leachates.