The Neighborhood Toxicologist

This summer I met a family from Australia who’d mentioned their daughter was highly allergic to peanuts. Wondering if all the concern about ...

“Ask for a cone, save the environment!” proclaimed the sign at the local Creamee. The girls asked for cups anyway, to catch the drippings o...

First published in the Montague Reporter First we hear about tens of thousands of picocuries* in the groundwater beneath Vermont Yankee Nucl...

The following is what I intend to be the first in a series of essays on the Evolution of the Toxic Response – a topic which piqued my inter...

Over the past two years the debate about bisphenol A (BPA) has become a quagmire where highly regarded scientists who once worked side by si...

There is an interesting article on Synthetic Biology in last week's New Yorker. Though I just gave it a skim, and didn't read the e...

I’ve been a “lurker” on the TCE List serve – a gathering site for those impacted by this old industrial solvent and one of this country’s mo...

[Here is the second part of T he Dumping Grounds , a history of ocean plastics.] An Earlier Voyage In 1971 over twenty years b...