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Conscious Consumer

Mineral-Based Sunscreens: Better for the Environment, Human Health

Kate Harveston block, Chemical, consumer, mineral, mineral-based, oxybenzone, radiation, solar, summer, sun, sunblock, sunscreen, ultraviolet, UV

Mineral-based sunscreens are better for the environment and our personal health, but can be harder to find and more expensive than their traditional counterparts.

Chernobyl

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Chernobyl Wildlife Thriving 30 Years Later

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Chernobyl, conservation, disaster, Eastern Europe, Exclusion Zone, extinct, fallout, isolation, man-made, meltdown, model, nuclear, poisoning, preservation, Przewalski’s Horse, radiation, rebound, Ukraine, Ukrainian, wilderness, wildlife, wolf, wolves

These days, wildlife is thriving around the site of the nuclear reactor meltdown at Chernobyl in the Ukraine three decades ago. Biologists say the lack of people in the “Exclusion Zone” thirty kilometers around reactor has made it easier for the animals that did survive — and their progeny — to now flourish.

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