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The Salmon of Miramichi River

To combat a local insect infestation the region of New Brunswick, Canada was covered in clouds of DDT. The rivers became polluted and the wildlife began to die, could the Salmon of the Mirimachi survive the devastation?

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From the brink; The story of the Bald Eagle

The bald Eagle was the symbol of the United States. A beautiful, magnificent, bird of prey. But they were dying and on the verge of extinction. What happened to the Bald Eagle? What had happened to these magnicifent birds of prey?

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The Panthers of the Everglades

Why was the population of the Panthers of the Everglades in Southern Florida declining? Every effort was been made to halt their slide towards extinction, yet nothing seemed to work. Why?

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Diethylstilbestrol (DES); Cure or Curse?

How could a miracle cure do so much damage? Millions of pregnant women were given the synthetic oestrogen mimic, DES, in the false belief that it could cure miscarriages and premature births. It resulted in...

Chemicals and Global Reproductive Health

The reproductive health of the entire human population is at risk. There is growing evidence to suggest that there is an increase in the number of reproductive and developmental problems occurring all over the world.

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The mixing of chemicals

We do it all the time in the laboratory to create new ever more complex materials. But what happens when nature startes creating its own random mixtures chemicals?

 

 

Silent-Spring.com

Rachel Carson's Silent Spring opened our eyes to the dangers of our new chemical environment. Advancements in the chemical industry had changed the natural landscape almost beyond recognition and in doing so it had made our world less harsher and more easier to live. But these advancements had a cost.
Unknown to us the results of these advancements were seeping into our lives in ways we never anticipated...

 

  • Between 1940-2009 production of synthetic chemicals increased more than 100 times.
  • There are more than 70,000 synthetic chemicals now in use but only 2% of them have ever been tested properly for carcinogenicity.
  • The chemical industry grows at a rate of 3.5% each year, doubling every twenty years.

    • As a consequence...
  • Everyone on Earth has more than 250 chemical contaminants contained within their bodies.
  • Over the last 50 years there has been an average drop of more than 50% in the sperm count of men in industrialized countries.
  • In just six months of breast-feeding, a baby in the United States and in Europe gets the maximum lifetime dose of Dioxin.
  • A breast-feeding baby gets five times the allowable daily level of PCBs recommended by the International Health Standards for a 450- pound adult.

 

To know more about the types of chemicals you may have within your body and information on what you can do to decrease your toxic body burden, look into Silent-Spring.com and be more informed about the state of your well-being and your environment.