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Topic: Toxins

Sam Nivola as Lochlan Ratliff in "The White Lotus" and a Cerbera odollam tree (Photo Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Jouan/Rius / Gamma-Rapho / Fabio Lovino/HBO)

The truth of deadly "White Lotus" fruit

Elizabeth Hlavinka
MALIBU, CA - January 08: A Tesla is melted into the street above Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu, CA on Wednesday, January 8, 2025. High winds escalated the spread of several blazes across Southern California. (Photo by David Crane/MediaNews Group/Los Angeles Daily News via Getty Images)

LA fires still an environmental crisis

Daria Solovieva
Apple smartwatches kept at display at the new Apple Inc. store in New Delhi, India on April 20, 2023. (Kabir Jhangiani/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Forever chemicals in smart watch bands

Matthew Rozsa
Formaldehyde, Hazardous chemicals and symbols on containers, chemical in industry or laboratory (Kittisak Kaewchalun / Getty Images)

Formaldehyde needs better regulations

Sharon Lerner, Al Shaw - ProPublica
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Tomato (Getty Images/Glowimages)

Pesticides multiply under EPA proposal

Sharon Lerner - ProPublica
Kitchen filled with smoke (Getty Images/Ignatiev)

When indoor air becomes deadly

Ana Clara Faria
Fried Egg On Non-Stick Frying Pan (Getty Images/Maryna Terletska)

PFAS are everywhere

Matthew Rozsa
Maxar satellite imagery showing total destruction of the Lahaina square and outlets after the Lahaina Wildfire, with one building still actively burning. (Satellite image (c) 2023 Maxar Technologies / Getty Images)

Toxins from Maui fires pose health risk

Andrew J. Whelton - The Conversation
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Lost fishing gear lies underwater on the seabed (Getty Images/Andriy Nekrasov)

Could plastic pollution be not that bad?

Matthew Rozsa
Greta Gerwig as Babette, Raffey Cassidy as Denise, May Nivola as Steffie, Sam Nivola as Heinrich and Adam Driver as Jack in "White Noise." (Netflix)

Eerie "White Noise" unfolding in Ohio

Alison Stine
Bottle of infused water with a slice of lemon, cucumber and rosemary leaf in it. (Getty Images/simarik)

Do detox diets actually work?

Taylor Grasso - Food52
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Army quietly re-opens germ warfare lab

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
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(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

Single-package plastic public enemy No.1

Sylvain Charlebois - The Conversation
In this Dec. 1, 2015 photo, a woman wears a mask to protect herself from pollutants near Tiananmen Gate on a heavily polluted day in Beijing. Episodes of nauseating smog lasting several days has become part of wintertime in the Chinese capital, and for many Beijing residents face masks have become a routine cold-weather accessory, along with hats and gloves. (AP Photo/Andy Wong) (AP)

Only some masks protect against toxins

Samantha Young, Ana B. Ibarra - KFF Health News
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10 contaminated foods

Annie B. Bond - Alternet
Aundrea Simmons stands next to her minivan with cases of bottled water she bought after Toledo warned residents not to use its water, Saturday, Aug. 2, 2014 in Toledo, Ohio. About 400,000 people in and around Ohio's fourth-largest city were warned not to drink or use its water after tests revealed the presence of a toxin possibly from algae on Lake Erie. (AP Photo John Seewer)

John Seewer
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(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-140512p1.html'>Jiri Hera</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Toxins in tampons

Laura Kiesel
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-624322p1.html'>Jjustas</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Florence Williams - OnEarth
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Lindsay Abrams
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/user_view.php?id=6851023'>kokouu</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

Neurotic's guide to fasting

Jennifer Wright
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