1. Stirring up forgotten lead: Smelters across US at risk from tornadoes, floods, quakes
2. Water quality tests data shows elevated lead levels in Toronto homes
Thirteen per cent of household water tests conducted in Toronto over the past six years showed unsafe levels of lead.
3. Virus experiments risk unleashing global pandemic, study warns
Scientists examine specimens of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus in the US. Photograph: Reuters
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5. Hungry for a helping of test tube meat? Maybe you should be
Lab-cultured meat, raised from stem cells, may provide the world with a plentiful, ecologically beneficial and humane source of protein, scientists say. (Krista Simmons / For The Times)
6. Probe finds scant oversight of chemical plants
7. Charismatic Minifauna
Will We Still Have Fruit if Bees Die Off?
8. In Utah Boom Town, a Spike in Infant Deaths Raises Questions
10. Tons of drowned livestock pose health threat in flood-hit Balkans; army decontaminates areas
11. Timely cleanup unlikely at state’s hazardous waste sites
12. N.C. panel OKs criminalizing disclosure of chemicals in fracking
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