Environmental Health Content

Aged Before Their Time: Atrazine and Diminished Egg Quality in Mice

Andy Fell — December 19, 2022 - 11:33am

Female infants are born with several million immature egg cells, or oocytes. Over the course of the reproductive years, a few hundred of them will develop into mature eggs for potential fertilization. Because of this extended maturation process, the oocytes of humans and other mammals are vulnerable to both developmental exposures and the aging process.

EPA-Funded Study Will Look at Children’s Exposure to Chemicals in Household Dust

Andy Fell — October 27, 2021 - 8:30am

When it comes to keeping kids safe, parents may not think about household dust as a potential hazard. But those fine particles all around your home can expose kids to a wide range of chemicals.

DDT Exposure in Grandmothers Linked to Obesity, Earlier Periods in Granddaughters

Katherine E Kerlin — April 14, 2021 - 7:00am

Young women today may face increased health risks linked to breast cancer due to effects from a banned toxic pesticide lasting over three generations, according to a new study from the Public Health Institute’s Child Health and Development Studies, or CHDS, and the University of California, Davis.

Testing Sonoma Ash and Air for Fire-Formed Pollutants

Andy Fell — January 23, 2018 - 11:18am

When fires ripped through suburban subdivisions in Santa Rosa last October, they may have done more than reduce homes to ashes. By incinerating all kinds of materials — insulation, electronics, furniture, cleaning products, pesticides — at very high temperatures, they could have created unknown or previously unrecognized health hazards in the smoke and ash. Researchers from UC Davis, are trying to figure out just what is in that ash and air.