Tag: Clothing
PFAS are showing up in children’s stain- and water-resistant products –...
Kathryn Rodgers, Boston University
Even if children’s stain- or water-resistant clothes are advertised as “green” or “nontoxic,” they might...
Cool touch shirts can make you feel cool on hot days,...
Susan L. Sokolowski, University of Oregon
It’s another hot and sweaty summer day, and you see an ad for a sports T-shirt claiming it is...
The Life and Mission of Atul Tandon, Recipient of Life &...
Ending Extreme Poverty
Atul Tandon is fighting for one big goal: to end extreme poverty in his lifetime.
An Indian-born banker, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who is...
5 charts show how your household drives up global greenhouse gas...
Morteza Taiebat, University of Michigan and Ming Xu, University of Michigan
As the public conversation about climate change gets increasingly serious, many Americans may be...
FUCT gets day in court as SCOTUS considers dropping slippery moral...
Megan M Carpenter, University of New Hampshire
When’s a brand too scandalous to trademark?
That’s a question the Supreme Court will soon decide in a...
Want to help after hurricanes? Give cash, not diapers
Julia Brooks, Harvard University
Some companies and community groups didn’t wait for Hurricane Florence to make landfall before organizing donation drives.
But as a researcher...
How transshipment may undercut Trump’s tariffs
Patrick Conway, University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill
President Donald Trump is vowing to crack down on deceptive transshipment. That is the practice...
How fashion adapted to climate change – in the Little Ice...
Lane Eagles, University of Washington
One could say the consequences of the planet’s warming climate can be seen on fashion week runways and the shelves...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
