Silent Spring

Chemicals in Sofas Causes Serious Burns to Customers

More than 2000 people in the United Kingdom suffered serious burns from chemicals that were put into sofas made in China. More than 100,000 of the sofas are thought to have been sold on the High Streets in the UK. The chemical in question Dimethyl Fumarate (DMF) were put into satchets, which were then ...

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Oil Spills and the Dangers of Chemical Dispersants

The problem about some of these methods is that they take time to execute and none is guaranteed to work. Every method is just one of many in a list of possible ways to contain the oil spill. While each method is applied and only partially works the oil continues to spill into the surrounding ...

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How do you contain a Deep Sea oil Spill?

As we have witnessed over the last few weeks, there is not easy way to contain a deep sea spill. Fortunately, it’s not the worst oil spill ever (that honour goes to the oil spill in Iraq during the first Gulf War where more than 520 million gallons of oil was deliberately released into the ...

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The Environmental cost of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill

Again the environment is paying the cost of the reckless activities of Man. More than 5,000 barrels a day is gushing into the Ocean from the embers of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig Already environmentalists have stated that dolphins, turtles and bird populations will be affected due to the spill. It is also likely that the ...

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Why Risk PCB’s in Fish Oil Supplements?

Over many decades the consuming masses have been taught about the benefits of various health foods, including supplements. Omega-3 fatty acids have been one of the most popular of these supplements. Studies have shown that Omega-3 helps cut down the risk of chronic heart disease such as heart disease, cancer and arthritis and also helps ...

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Why Action Towards Control has been Slow

Silent Spring has made us aware, but change for the better has been slow. Unlike famines, epidemics and natural disasters that were the scourge of pre-industrial society, the dangers of chemical pollutants are of our own making. The frustratingly slow progress towards creating a synthetic toxic chemical free environment stems from our inability to determine ...

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New Chemical Dangers

But highly visible pollution events were occurring all over America during the same period. Devastating events that no-one could easily ignore. Rachel Carson was unique in that she compiled the most graphic of these events and eloquently described them in her book. Silent Spring opened with a ‘fable for tomorrow’ where she described a fictional ...

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Dark role of Chemical Pollutants

Fortunately, most synthetic chemicals are safe. But there are a few that are known to be very dangerous and some of these have been measured in appreciable amounts within a few people. But even though toxic levels of chemical pollutants are seriously not good for you, it seems that we should even be more worried about ...

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