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People depart the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the United Nations in Manhattan on Monday.

US and EU expel scores of Russian diplomats in response to UK nerve attack

Conflict

Besides the United States, 14 European Union countries also expelled Russian diplomats in the biggest Western expulsion of Russian diplomats since the height of the Cold War.

Officials working where Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were found in Salisbury, Britain.

British Prime Minister Theresa May says it’s ‘highly likely’ Russia was behind nerve attack on spy

Conflict
Drawings of Atropa belladonna and Digitalis purpurea. Via Köhler's Medicinal Plants/Wikimedia

Agatha Christie’s murders are enmeshed with real chemistry

Books

The Dose Doesn’t Always Make the Poison

The World

In China, Anger and Panic Over Lead Poisoning

Business, Economics and Jobs

Household Toxics

Steve talks about the health effects of household chemicals with Nancy Sokol-Green, author of Poisoning Our Children: Surviving in A Toxic World.

Low Dose Makes the Poison

Hormone-mimicking chemicals like BPA and atrazine could be bad for human health even in tiny doses. But regulatory agencies like the EPA and the FDA only look at traditional high-dose tests when considering regulation. Endocrinologists say its time regula

Toxic Sweets

What started as a routine look at lead poisoning from old paint at the Orange County Register turned into a two-year investigation of lead poisoning from Mexican candy. The investigation focused attention on a little known problem and is already leading to change. Host Steve Curwood talks with the two journalists from the Register who […]

T.C. Boyle on ‘When the Killing’s Done’

In 1853, a steamship named the Winfield Scott ran aground near the Channel Islands, which are off the coast of California. Unfortunately, when the ship landed, so did a certain foreign species that reproduced quickly, and ate the eggs of native birds and reptiles: the black rat.  In 2001, the National Park Service began fighting the […]