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Jennifer A. Ross on Pesticides and People

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This spring we are offering a series of posts on the topic of Environmental Justice and Environmental Health. The series is organized in conjunction with Continue reading →

Pesticides and People

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DDT advertisement

[We welcome Jennifer A. Ross to the blog, to continue our series on Environmental Justice and Environmental Health. The video of her talk in the associated speaker series will available next week.]

People have a long and complicated relationship with pesticides. It starts with us defining what a pest is, and then seeking Continue reading →

Life with Less Plastic (Plastic Waste, Part 2)

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Vending maching in Japan

Written in collaboration with Tomoko Yoshida.

Our previous post provides an institutional view of our world’s current plastic waste problem. We showed how institutions in various sectors of society Continue reading →

What are plastics?

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Polyethylene-terephthalate-3D-spacefill

What are plastics?

All plastics are composed of carbon atoms connected to one another in a chain-like structure, with mostly or exclusively hydrogen atoms attached to the carbon atoms.   Gasoline, candle wax and plastics all have this same structure; gasoline has Continue reading →

“Impacts of Emerging Contaminants on Surrounding Aquatic Environment from a Youth Festival”

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CITATION:
JJ Jiang et al. 2015. Environmental Science and Technology, Vol. 49, No. 2, pp. 792–799.
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ABSTRACT:
The youth festival as we refer to Spring Scream, a large-scale pop music festival, is notorious for the problems of Continue reading →