Automobile exhaust pollutants mainly include: carbon monoxide, hydrocarbons, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, smoke and dust particles (some heavy metal compounds, lead compounds, smoke and mist), smell (formaldehyde). According to statistics, 1,000 cars per day of carbon monoxide from about 3000 kg, hydrocarbons 200-400 kg, nitrogen oxides 50-150 kg; U.S. city of Los Angeles automobile emissions [...]

“The frog does not drink up the pond in which he lives.” - American Indian Proverb
* By Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
Every day in the United States more than 240 million people turn on their faucets in order to drink, bathe, and cook, using water from public water systems. But more people are arriving to the [...]

BETHESDA, MARYLAND, Jul. 10 -/E-Wire/– Lead introduced in the environment through recreational hunting, shooting sports, and fishing poses a potential hazard to both wildlife and humans, according to a new technical review by The Wildlife Society (TWS) and American Fisheries Society (AFS).
“The Wildlife Society (TWS) supports legal and ethical hunting and fishing and recognizes its [...]

By Dr. Elizabeth Smoots
Young children explore the world mainly through sucking, licking and tasting. How often I hear parents of toddlers exclaim: “Don’t put that in your mouth!”
This developmental trait puts kids at high risk for getting lead poisoning. Swallowing tiny chips of leaded paint from dust in older buildings, toys imported from China, and [...]