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TAKE ACTION to protect 'free from' labelling on skincare products
Mark Briggs
10th April, 2012
Knowing what isn't in a beauty product can be as important as knowing what is. New EU legislation threatens to restrict the 'free from' term on skincare labels but Neal's Yard Remedies say this penalises those that go out of their way to ensure products are safe more...
The truth about food additives: how they threaten your health
Dr Fabrizio Mancini
18th January, 2012
In an extract from his new book, The Power of Self-Healing, Dr Fabrizio Mancini explains why sugar and food additives - from aspartame to trans fats - could have a severely detrimental effect on your health more...
Kazakhstan’s nuclear legacy offers lessons for Fukushima
Matilda Lee
30th August, 2011
The Semipalatinsk region suffered under four decades of Soviet nuclear testing. Now, the country wants to become an international research hub for the effects of radiation on future generations. Matilda Lee reports from Kazakhstan more...
Wired but tired: is modern life draining your energy?
Samantha Swift
1st July, 2011
Could ‘electrical pollution’ and EMFs have consequences for your health? Samantha Swift reports more...
Aren't floods, cancer and infant mortality enough to stop Hinkley nuclear proposal?
Rosie Shute
29th June, 2011
Despite claims of a higher incidence of breast cancer and infant mortality in the vicinity of the existing Hinkley nuclear plant, and concerns over flooding in the region, the government has put forward crazy plans for a new facility says Rosie Shute more...
Do mobile phones really cause cancer?
Eifion Rees
7th June, 2011
Consumers have been left confused by the latest study on the links between mobile phone use and brain cancer. Eifion Rees reports on the struggle to find answers more...
Why UK nuclear power plants may cause childhood cancer and leukaemia
Dr Paul Dorfman
16th May, 2011
You won't hear the UK government admit it but after decades of research there is now evidence of real excesses of childhood cancer and leukaemia near some nuclear facilities, argues Dr Paul Dorfman more...
Can we cut cancer and heart disease rates just by going vegan?
Matilda Lee
17th May, 2011
We've heard about the environmental and animal welfare problems with meat consumption. Now a new film, Planeat, presents a convincing health case to re-examine our love affair with meat and dairy, reports Matilda Lee more...
What role does nutrition really play in tackling cancer?
Michael Finucane
27th April, 2011
A book by leading biochemist Dr Lawrence Plaskett champions the power of the body to destroy tumours naturally. Why this happens is not always clear but a change of diet and other nutritional and naturopathic measures can aid recovery, says Michael Finucane more...
CAMPAIGN HERO: Nick Mole, Pesticide Action Network
Matilda Lee
15th April, 2011
The Pesticide Action Network campaigner on why and how the government should urgently implement EU legislation on pesticides to protect human health and the environment more...
The Brofiscin saga
Jon Hughes
10th January, 2008
The answer to the ongoing Brofiscin saga lies not in the South Wales Quarry but in Doncaster. Jon Hughes explains the complex legal judgement that has paralysed the Environment Agency and undermined its raison d’etre; to make the polluter pay more...
Warriors of Qiugang: how one Chinese 'cancer village' rose up
The Ecologist
January 31st,2011
Watch the trailer for the Oscar-nominated film documenting how Chinese villagers challenged a powerful chemical company over pesticides and dye-factory pollution more...
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CAMPAIGN PROFILE: Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL)
Matilda Lee
1st December, 2010
From asthma and allergies, diabetes and reproductive problems to cancer and obesity, environmental degradation plays a role... HEAL ensures our voices on these issues are heard in Brussels more...
The pesticides scandal: Government inaction is destroying lives
Georgina Downs
The new coalition Government must do what Labour failed to do in 13 years in power and finally introduce the necessary measures to protect people from pesticides, says Georgina Downs more...
Dismay over EU decision not to ban baby bottle chemical bisphenol-A
Tom Levitt
1st October, 2010
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) says no convincing evidence to cause it to ban or further restrict exposure to the controversial chemical bisphenol-A used in plastic bottles and containers more...
Public deprived of data on cancer links to toxins - film maker
Tom Levitt
13th September, 2010
Director of 'The Idiot Cycle' claims people are being kept in the dark over the dangers posed by toxins in everyday life - and questions the murky links between UN, WHO and chemical companiesmore...
Emmanuelle Garcia : Chemical companies want the public to feel helpless and not protest
Tom Levitt
6th September, 2010
Emmanuelle Schick Garcia is the director of 'The Idiot Cycle', a new film exposing the chemical industry and how it benefits from the contamination it is causing more...
Workplace cancer costing 8,000 lives a year
Ecologist
15th June, 2010
Research is the first attempt to quantify the higher cancer risk faced by men and women working in construction and doing shift work, but cancer charities say study is outdated more...
Uncertainity over mobile phone and brain cancer links
Ecologist
18th May, 2010
Largest study to date finds increased tumour risk for heavy mobile phone users but says 'biases and errors' make use of these findings impossible more...
US Cancer Institute issues stark warning on environmental cancer risk
Ecologist
17th May, 2010
A leading US research body has said the range of confirmed or suspected carcinogens to which we are exposed on a daily basis is cause for serious concern, but UK campaign groups refuse to change their views more...
Behind the label: talcum powder
Pat Thomas
13th April, 2010
Keeping your baby's bottom soft and dry shouldn't mean exposing it to a potentially harmful and environmentally costly substance more...
Farm pesticides linked to skin cancer
Ecologist
7th April, 2010
Large-scale study highlights agricultural chemicals as a possible risk factor behind rising rates of melanoma in the US more...
Cancer and pesticides: victims fight for justice
Diana Smith
4th February, 2010
After long battles, three farmers in France have won legal claims that their cases of cancer and Parkinson's disease were caused by working with pesticides. Now they want to help others fight similar cases more...
Cancer drug: the other use for mistletoe
Laura Sevier
18th December, 2009
Mistletoe is not just for kissing under. In some European countries the plant is a respected and widely used treatment for cancer. Will it catch on in the UK? more...
Rising cancer levels in animals
Ecologist
7th August, 2009
Report published in Nature expresses alarm at the impact of cancer on endangered species such as Tasmanian devil and beluga whale more...Members
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