Salon Patrons' Clippings Tested for Mercury in Portsmouth
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By Janie Bryant, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Feb. 8--PORTSMOUTH -- Joyce Newton slid into a styling chair, her back to the mirror, waiting for the snip of scissors.  "Don't cut too much out unless you're planning on perming it," she said.
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By Susan Salisbury, The Palm Beach Post, Fla.  Jun. 4--Business had slowed, so Mary Ann Martin had a can of green paint  and a brush in hand.   The owner of Roland & Mary Ann Martin's Marina & Resort planned to do  some touch-ups at the tiki bar on a recent morning.
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By JANIE BRYANT  BY janie bryant  THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT  PORTSMOUTH - Joyce Newton slid into a styling chair, her back to the mirror, waiting for the snip of scissors.  "Don't cut too much out unless you're planning on perming it," she said.
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By Allyson Bond, High Point Enterprise, N.C.  Mar. 2--GLENOLA -- Test results for possible water contamination in Glenola near the Confluence Watersports facility were returned earlier this week stating none of the chemicals tested were detectable in the water.
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Is your shoreline sanitary? See what could be lurking at a sandy spot near you.
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BBC Europe editor Mark Mardell reflects on a vote in the European Parliament to ban mercury and a possible slip-up by French presidential hopeful Segolene Royal.
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Customers are getting Botox shots in settings that are   more salon than  doctorâs office.
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Federal health officials are again examining what's known &#151; and what's still to be learned &#151; about the safety of a mercury mixture that's stirred controversy since dentists began using it to fill cavities in the 1800s.
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By Lee Tolliver, The Virginian-Pilot, Norfolk, Va.  Jun. 17--Picture the scene: A boat of anglers, miles from shore, the sea sparkling from a brilliant full moon, then they appear. Sharks, lots of them, surrounding the vessel.
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A report about high mercury levels in some sushi in Manhattan prompted concern among some residents but others shrugged.
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By Constance Loizos, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Jun.
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WASHINGTON -- Federal health officials are again examining what's known -- and what's still to be learnedÃÂ -- about the safety of a mercury mixture that's stirred controversy since dentists began using it to fill cavities in the 1800s.
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By Kristopher Hanson, Press-Telegram, Long Beach, Calif.  Dec. 19--LONG BEACH -- USC and a state air quality agency are teaming up  to capture and test the origin of tiny pollution particles floating around  harbor communities.
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Academic studies highlighting the hazards posed by the chemicals used in nail salons are raising concerns about the health of the nationâs 300,000 nail salon workers.
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By Brent Champaco, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Feb. 15--Lucinda Wingard says she's noticed the toll humans are taking on the Crescent Valley Watershed of Gig Harbor.   She lives in the area that scientists consider one of the most biologically diverse in Pierce County.
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By Mary Landers, Savannah Morning News, Ga.  Sep. 18--When the neighbors of a proposed sewage treatment plant for Port  Wentworth got wind of its location, they got concerned.
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A team of scientists is traveling a 600-mile stretch of the Inside Passage this month to study the effects of cruise ship waste and other contaminants in Southeast Alaska waters.