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(NaturalNews) – Scientists from Duke University in North Carolina have identified yet another major threat to human health posed by the plastics chemical bisphenol-A (BPA). According to new research, babies exposed to BPA in utero, or during their developmental stages in the womb, could experience inhibited central nervous system development, which in turn could set them up for future stricken with neurodevelopmental problems. Read the rest of this entry »

(MediaRoots) – If scientists working for petrochemical corporations can manipulate molecular structures to derive new substances, plastics, so can scientists working for a greener agenda. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (NaturalNews) – Some U.S. farmers now feeding their cattle gummy worms, marshmallows, and ice cream sprinkles in response to skyrocketing feed costs – Read More Here

(NaturalNews) – The fact that most fast foods are not a smart, healthy diet choice is well documented by now. Still, it never ceases to amaze us here at Natural News just what kind of harmful garbage fast food companies put in some of their most popular items. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalSociety) – Researchers at North Carolina State University found that bisphenol-A (BPA) exposure in early life stages can actually cause gene expression changes. These effects are seen in a part of the brain called the amygdala, which can lead to increased levels of anxiety.  Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalSociety) – If there was a problem with fertility, most men wouldn’t know it until they tried to conceive a child. Everything can seem to be in great working condition, but low sperm counts leading to infertility are more common than we might think. As a matter of fact, contrary to popular belief, about half of all infertility cases involve some problem on the man’s side of the two-person equation. Read the rest of this entry »

(Old-ThinkerNews) – Cancer is a major business. It seems that massive amounts of money are raised in a “race for the cure” while the cause of cancer is ignored. The influence of foundations, corporations and entrenched scientific theory are all at work in this business. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (DaisyLuther) – Radioactive Danger: It’s Not Just Coming from Japan – Read More Here

(NaturalSociety) – There is an ongoing and unusual trend that is steadily becoming more recognized by the public. Why are girls going into puberty at such young ages? Furthermore, what are the causes and implications of this strange new trend?

Girls as young as 7 are now beginning to undergo body changes that their mothers hadn’t experienced until years later. At this rate, by the time that they’ll be taught about puberty in the school curriculum, they will have already finished it. This trend is so puzzling, and yet slowly is becoming considered an inevitable “new norm” rather than being highlighted as an aggravated health condition. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – The FDA, the organization that conspired with California bureaucrats to attack raw milk distribution centers over the past two years, has just announced it will not ban BPA. The FDA says there isn’t enough evidence of BPA being harmful to humans (that’s a lie) and therefore it cannot be justifiably banned. Read the rest of this entry »

(CNN) – The Food and Drug Administration announced Friday it will deny a National Resources Defense Council petition asking it to prohibit the use of bisphenol A, commonly known as BPA, in products manufactured in the United States. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalSociety) – Experts step up calls for a nationwide ban on BPA as more evidence emerges linking the endocrine disrupting chemical to cancer and fertility problems.

Even small amounts of exposure to many chemicals can result in drastic negative health consequences – bisphenol-A (BPA)  is no exception. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (USNews) – Drug Overdoses Kill More Americans Than Car Accidents: CDC – Read More Here

Also: (NaturalNews) – EPA report concludes that natural gas ‘fracking’ causes groundwater contamination – Read More Here

(CNSNews) – A move by the Seattle City Council earlier this week to ban plastic bags and levy a five-cent tax on paper bags at retail outlets will push consumers to “more resource-intensive alternatives,” and will actually harm the very environment the ban seeks to protect, a leading plastics manufacturer and a major conservative group say. Read the rest of this entry »

(AFP) – People who ate canned soup for five days straight saw their urinary levels of the chemical bisphenol A spike 1,200 percent compared to those who ate fresh soup, US researchers said on Tuesday.

The randomized study, described as “one of the first to quantify BPA levels in humans after ingestion of canned foods,” was done by Harvard University researchers and appears in the Journal of the American Medical Association’s November 23 issue. Read the rest of this entry »

(WashingtonsBlog) – Japanese Debris to Hit Western U.S. and Canada

I noted in June that debris from carried out to sea in the Japanese tsunami would hit the Western U.S. and Canada within a year or so, and that nuclear engineer Arnie Gundersen urged us to demand testing of radioactivity from the American government.

It turns out that scientists underestimated the speed with which the debris would reach the Western coast of North America. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – The breast cancer research group Susan G. Komen for the Cure seems more interested in keeping its chemical industry donors happy than it is in actually finding a cure for breast cancer. A recent story in Mother Jones explains that, despite the more than 130 scientific studies that demonstrate a clear connection between bisphenol-A (BPA) exposure and breast cancer, the group continues to deny any link between the two, and insists that BPA is safe. Read the rest of this entry »

(PrisonPlanet) – During the early stages of life, proper hormonal balance is essential for adequate growth and development. Bisphenol A (BPA), an estrogen-mimicker, can offset the hormonal balance of your body leading to conditions such as cancer and early puberty. Therefore, it is quite disturbing that a new study conducted by the Breast Cancer Fundhas found that BPA is highly present in 6 different canned foods marketed specifically towards children.

The 6 canned goods that the study identified, along with the measure of BPA contamination measured in parts per billion (ppb), are as follows: Read the rest of this entry »

(AJC) – Aaron Dykes hosts a segment on Bisphenol A, the dangerous estrogen compound in plastic drinking bottles and food containers. BPA is a known toxic substance outlawed in Canada and Europe, but still used in the United States, even though the FDA raised concerns regarding exposure of fetuses, infants and young children to the substance. Read the rest of this entry »

(TedTalks) – Product designer Eben Bayer reveals his recipe for a new, fungus-based packaging material that protects fragile stuff like furniture, plasma screens – and the environment. Read the rest of this entry »

(AFP) – Male mice who were exposed as babies to BPA, a chemical common in canned foods and plastic containers, act more like females and are seen as less desirable mates, a US study showed Monday.

The findings could have implications for how BPA, or Bisphenol A, may affect human development and behavior, said the study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Read the rest of this entry »

(HuffpostGreen) – If the current actions contributing to a multifaceted degradation of the world’s oceans aren’t curbed, a mass extinction unlike anything human history has ever seen is coming, an expert panel of scientists warns in an alarming new report.

The preliminary report from the International Programme on the State of the Ocean (IPSO) is the result of the first-ever interdisciplinary international workshop examining the combined impact of all of the stressors currently affecting the oceans, including pollution, warming, acidification, overfishing and hypoxia. Read the rest of this entry »

Topics: Economic Crash and Bailouts, Bankers’ Plunder Worldwide – Age of Austerity, Massive Cuts in “Consumption” – Police State Built under Guise of Terrorism – Global Governance by Elite Class – Pre-Vetted and Selected Politicians (Bought and Paid for) – Sam Bronfman – Electricity Blackouts and Rationing Read the rest of this entry »

(GlobeAndMail) – When David Hancock saw the bald-eagle count on the Chehalis River drop from more than 7,000 to fewer than 400 over a few days in December, he knew a crisis was coming.

Earlier this week, news reports that starving eagles were “falling out of the sky” in the Comox Valley, on Vancouver Island, confirmed his fears. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (7KPLC) – Hundreds of dead birds discovered in Lake Charles – Read More Here

(AMInd) – Another massive fish kill has struck Florida waters — this time affecting menhaden in a Vero Beach state park. The Sebastian Inlet State Park became inundated with swathes of dead fish last week. According to one report, some residents have estimated that there are “millions” of dead fish, and the area is now inundated with a strong odor from the decay. Read More Here

See Also: (Rotoruadailypost) – Mystery as dead birds pile up on city street – Read More Here

(ExtinctionProtocol) – At Aquidauana, pantanal region of the Mato Grosso do Sul state, shoals of painteds, pacus, golden fishes, cacharas – and even stingrays, are floating dead in Rio Negro, one of the largest in the Amazon River basin. The estimated Environmental Policy is of that several tons of fishes died, adding that the authorities and experts, they still do not have the scale of the ecological disaster. Read More Here

(NaturalNews) – Exposure to the ubiquitous industrial chemical bisphenol A (BPA) has once again been linked to decreased sperm health, this time in humans, in a study conducted by researchers from Kaiser Permanente and published in the journal Fertility and Sterility.

The findings are of particular concern because symptoms were found at very low exposures, and because BPA is so widespread. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (CBCNews) – Video: Hundreds Of Dead Seals Washing Up On Canada’s Northeast Coast – View Video Here

Also: Video: Dead fish galveston oil -30 miles out – Video Link Here

(EconomicCollapseBlog) – Just what in the world is going on out there? Large groups of animals are keeling over dead, thousands of birds are falling out of the sky dead and millions of dead fish are washing ashore all over the globe.  Something is happening.  Do any of you know what is causing all this, because I sure don’t.  This all seemed to start around the end of December when mass bird deaths and mass fish deaths began to be reported all around the world.  Read the rest of this entry »

(HuffingtonPost) – In the latest of a string of mass animal deaths, 10,000 cows and buffalo have died in Vietnam.

Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development confirmed the news this week that more than 10,000 cows and buffalos died nationwide due to harsh weather conditions. Read the rest of this entry »

See Also: (RiaNov) – Beijing reports mass bird deaths – Read More Here

(TheCitizen) – Sempronius buffalo farmer Peter Head has lost 55 animals to a mysterious illness since October, but autopsies have shown no clear cause of death.

“We’re going nuts down here trying to figure out what’s going on,” he said. “This is going to put me out of business. That’s half my frickin’ herd.” Read the rest of this entry »

(TheTelegram) – ‘I’ve never seen anything like it’ – Boat Harbour residents baffled by arrival of dead seals, fish – Read More Here

(BBC) – Thousands of dead octopuses wash up on Portugal beach – Read More Here

(NaturalNews) – 10,000 cattle in Vietnam mysteriously die from cold weather

Thousands of cattle recently turned up dead in various Vietnamese provinces, reportedly due to the long cold spell that has hit the area in recent weeks. Officials from the Veterinary Department of the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) had allegedly been working with local cities and provinces to help keep animals fed and warm once reports emerged of them dying, but such efforts largely failed as thousands more continued to die across the country. Read the rest of this entry »

(Jacksonville) – Founder of sanctuary treating the birds blames chemicals in the water. Read the rest of this entry »

Audio: January 17th, 2011 – Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – Here’s an updated timeline of the mysterious animal deaths now happening around the world. Conventional explanations for these deaths now border on the outlandish: A bird die-off event in Romania is now being blamed on “drunkenness,” for example.

Here’s the updated list through January 14, 2011, in reverse date order: Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – A new study from the University of California, San Francisco reveals that 100 percent of expectant mothers (sample size = 268) are contaminated with highly toxic synthetic chemicals. The study, published in Environmental Health Perspectives, concluded, “Certain PCBs, organochlorine pesticides, PFCs, phenols, PBDEs, phthalates, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and perchlorate were detected in 99 to 100% of pregnant women.” Read the rest of this entry »

(SOTT) – Investigations are underway into the cause of a fish kill in Jervis Bay. About 70 different species have been washed up on the shore line around Honeymoon Bay and Bindijine. Among the kill were groper, flathead, stingrays and sea horses. Samples of the dead fish have been taken away for testing. The incident has experts mystified, because many fish kills often effect only a few species, while on this occasion the deaths are across the board. Read the rest of this entry »

(NTDTV) – Video: Thousands of Fish Dead in India’s Yamuna River – Video Link Here

(WBRC) – Dead Birds Discovered In Alabama – Read More Here

(PostmediaNews) – ‘Dead Fish Swimming’ Virus may be Killing Pacific Salmon – Read More Here

(Examiner) – Dead birds in Alabama fuel more Bible prophecy queries – Read More Here

(DailyMail) – Now 300 dead birds fall from the sky in Alabama (how much longer can scientists keep saying this is normal?) – Read More Here

(Datelinezero) – More dead birds, this time blamed on alcohol poisoning – Read more Here

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Millions of Dead Fish, Alligators, Turtles Floating in Brazilian Waters! – Read the rest of this entry »

(DailyMail) – Up to 300 dead birds have been found on the side of an Alabama highway in the latest mass animal death to be reported.

The bodies of the birds, identified as grackles, were found strewn along the I-65 highway. Read the rest of this entry »

(JasonDouglass) – Another mass die-off is underway along Chiacgo’s lakefront involving thousands of gizzard shad.

The small fish, which are members of the herring family, are more sensitive to drops in oxygen levels than other fish according to Dan Makauskas Lake Michigan Program biologist who consulted with Chicago Sun-Times. Read the rest of this entry »

(Telegraph) – Environmental scientists have been criticised for exaggerating the size of an “island” of plastic waste said to be swirling around in the Pacific Ocean after a study finds that it is 200 times smaller than claimed.

Claims that the “Great Garbage Patch” between California and Japan is twice the size of Texas is “grossly exaggerated” said the research which reckons it is more like one per cent the size. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – Agricultural crops can absorb pharmaceuticals found in the water used to irrigate them or the sewage sludge used to fertilize them, according to a study conducted by researchers from the University of Toledo-Ohio and published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology. Read the rest of this entry »

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(DailyMail) – Chemicals found in cleaning products may be harming the health of children and adults, new research suggests.

A study shows that young people who are over-exposed to the soap agent triclosan are more likely to suffer allergies. Read the rest of this entry »

(PreventDisease) – Europe on Thursday banned baby bottles containing the chemical Bisphenol-A as of early next year over fears it may harm the health of children throughout the EU’s half a billion population.

Parents across the European Union, the world’s biggest open market, “can be sure that as of mid-2011 plastic infant feeding bottles will not include BPA”, said John Dalli, commissioner in charge of health and consumer policy. “This is good news for European consumers.” Read the rest of this entry »

(CommonDreams) – For several years now, Environmental Working Group (EWG) has been warning of the risks associated with bisphenol A (BPA) – especially the BPA in baby bottles, sippy cups and cans of infant formula. EWG has also been a leader in trying to get state and federal agencies to regulate this hazardous chemical. Read the rest of this entry »

(MailTimes) – Drinking glasses depicting comic book and movie characters such as Superman, Wonder Woman and the Tin Man from “The Wizard of Oz” exceed federal limits for lead in children’s products by up to 1,000 times, according to laboratory testing commissioned by The Associated Press. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – Results from a five-year trial on the effects of bisphenol-A (BPA) in human males has revealed that the popular plastics chemical destroys sperm. One of the few BPA studies involving humans, the trial sheds more light on the obvious harm BPA causes on male reproduction, and the need to immediately remove the chemical from from all products.

“This study counters the argument that only highly exposed populations are affected,” explained Dr. De-Kun Li, author of the study and reproductive and perinatal epidemiologist at Kaiser Permanente’s Division of Research in Oakland, Calif. “You can be exposed from the workplace. You can be exposed from consumer products. It doesn’t really matter. Ultimately it will reflect in your urine.” Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – Bad news has emerged for those hoping to avoid exposure to the hormone-disrupting chemical bisphenol A (BPA) by canning their own vegetables: BPA can also be found lining the lids of canning jars. Read the rest of this entry »

(NaturalNews) – The average age of puberty in girls is now nine, in a phenomenon increasingly being blamed on rising obesity and exposure to hormone-disrupting pollutants in the food supply.

The study was conducted in 2006 by researchers from the world-renowned Department of Growth and Reproduction at University Hospital in Copenhagen, Denmark. The researchers found that among 1,000 girls, the average age of breast development was nine years and 10 months, a full year earlier than when a similar study was conducted in 1991. Read the rest of this entry »

(AnthonyGucciardi) – The mainstream media has just recently began reporting on the dangers of Bispehnol A (BPA), despite evidence that has been available for some time that links it to serious conditions such as infertility. A five-year study has just been released that confirms the link between BPA and infertility, finding it severely damages sperm health. Read the rest of this entry »

(AlterNet) – New Book Exposes the Dirty Truth Behind Coca-Cola: Accusations of Murder and Environmental Destruction Read More Here

(NWCN) – Regence Blue Shield customers notified of skyrocketing rates

“Obama care went into effect and my rates went through the roof,” said Nilssen. Read More Here

(NaturalNews) – Breast cancer awareness campaigns cause more harm than good – Read More Here

(NaturalNews) – GM flax contamination now detected in 35 countries – Read More Here

(DailyFinance) – An ‘Unprecedented’ Bat Die-Off Could Devastate U.S. Agriculture

For several years now, scientists have been sounding alarms about a devastating fungus, White-Nose Syndrome (WNS), that has literally decimated bat populations in the Northeastern U.S. Read More Here

(OttawaCit) – BPA officially labelled ‘toxic’ – Chemical could cause prostate, breast cancer

The federal government has made good on a two-year-old promise to add bisphenol A, a hormone-disrupting chemical linked to some cancers, to the country’s list of toxic substances, in spite of industry opposition Read More Here

(Reuters) – FDA warns of thigh fractures with bone drugs

Osteoporosis drugs used by millions of women to prevent bones from breaking may increase the chances for an unusual type of thigh fracture, U.S. health officials warned on Wednesday. Read More Here

(NaturalNews) – GM corn is destroying US rivers

New research reveals that genetically-modified organisms (GMOs) are destroying both human health and the environment. According to Emma Rosi-Marshall from the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, N.Y., GM corn crops are leeching a toxic bacterial gene into the environment, polluting waterways and rivers across the U.S. Read the rest of this entry »

(NYTimes) – U.S. to Let Insurers Raise Fees for Sick Children – Read More Here

(TheEcologist) – Dismay over EU decision not to ban baby bottle chemical bisphenol-A – Read More Here

(HealthLand) – More Obesity Fallout: Nearly 50 Million Americans with Arthritis – Read More Here

(NaturalNews) – Researcher warns: watching medical TV shows can make you feel sick – Read More Here

(NaturalNews) – Sugared-up chocolate milk now sold as “infant formula” by Mead Johnson – Read More Here

(NaturalNews) – Terminal cancer patients routinely exploited by high-profit screening scams even as death approaches – Mike Adams – Read More Here

(NaturalNews) – Vitamin D deficiency could be a cause of autism

A new Danish study published in the journal Pediatrics has identified a link between neonatal jaundice and autism. Babies born with jaundice have a significantly increased risk of developing both general psychological problems and autism, and researchers believe a vitamin D deficiency is to blame. Read More Here

(NaturalNews) – BPA found in virtually all canned foods – Read More Here

(NYTimes) – N.Y. Faces $200 Billion in Retiree Health Costs – Read More Here

(BusinessWeek) – Corn Jumps to Two-Year High on Signs U.S. Supplies to Trail Use – Read More Here

Bisphenol-A Toxicology, Effects on Male Fetus, Sterilization, Cancer-Causing Properties. Legal Precedents Set in Court Cases – Canada Supreme Court–No Right to Lawyer During Police Interview – Interpretation of Law – FBI Bugging Citizens’ Cars with Tracking Devices – Dictatorial Authoritarian Order. Facebook Steals Your Friends’ Phone Numbers Read the rest of this entry »