Carcinogens

Beijing power plant

Globe-trotting pollutants pose a larger threat to public health than previously thought

Health

Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, toxic air pollutants produced by combustion, are linked to lung cancer and other serious health problems. Recent findings suggest that these tiny particles travel long distances and significantly increase overall health risks.

Developmental effects of air pollution

Health & Medicine
The World

Palomares, the H-Bomb and Operation Moist Mop

Arts, Culture & Media

50 Years After the Horrors of Thalidomide

The World

Plutonium, To Canada or Bust

The World

Health Note: Spain Poisoning

Living on Earth’s Jessica Penney reports on a massive poisoning incident in Spain twenty years ago.