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Learning from Frogs

Posted on June 28, 2009

Three and a half years ago, the editors of NRDC's quarterly magazine OnEarth published a particularly arresting cover image of a chubby baby boy. The special report he illustrated was also particularly arresting: Hundreds of man-made chemicals are interferring with our hormones and threatening our children's future. Our cover story that quarter was about endocrine disruptors and the proven dangers they present to both humans and other species. Since then NRDC's scientists have blogged repeatedly about this threat; search endocrine on Switchboard and you get five pages worth of entries.I wri...

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