August 20, 2012
Toxic chemicals marketed as flame retardants pose a threat to human health and the environment. These substances are widely incorporated into our consumer products but do not provide a fire safety benefit. Instead, they increase the toxicity of a fire through greater release of smoke, soot, carbon monoxide, and highly toxic substances such as dioxins [...]
June 22, 2012
(Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) As over 100 heads of state and thousands of participants flocked to the Rio + 20 Earth Summit, most delegates focused on the summit’s priority topics: energy, sustainable cities, food security and sustainable agriculture, forests, water, oceans, green jobs and disaster readiness. As the final Rio + 20 outcome document The [...]
May 20, 2012
Sound chemicals management underpins every aspect of a sustainable future and green livelihoods. Governments acknowledged that “sound management of chemicals is essential if we are to achieve sustainable development, including the eradication of poverty and disease” . Yet, two decades after the Rio Earth Summit, chemical contamination with toxic, persistent and bioaccumulative substances affects us [...]
April 17, 2012
“Environmental contamination from the Lynas Malaysian plant is inevitable. Radiation, groundwater, atmospheric and river pollution are our key concerns. This refinery would be unlikely to be approved if it were proposed in Australia” National Toxics Network (NTN) said today. These findings feature in a new research report released today. The report assesses the potential emissions [...]
June 30, 2010
Can Tasmania really claim its ‘clean and green’ image? Despite its beautiful wilderness and slow-paced way of life, it’s unsettling to learn that Tasmania has the nation’s highest rates of cancer (age standardised, excluding skin cancers), the highest rates of Parkinson’s disease and asthma, and has among the highest rates of diabetes and cardiovascular disease. [...]
Jo Immig, NTN’s Coordinator 
Dr Mariann Lloyd-Smith, Snr Advisor 
Dr Alison Bleaney, Tasmania 
Irene Falcone, Nourished Life 
Jane Bremmer, WA activist 
Imogen Ingram, Cook Islands 
Dr Meriel Watts, New Zealand 
Lee Bell, WA Researcher 
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