In most of the U.S., formaldehyde contributes more to outdoor cancer risk than any other toxic air pollutant. Look up your address to see risks from the chemical on your block and where it comes from: (Published Dec. 2024)
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It kills us then preserves us. Seems fair.
aug 29, 2025, 3:04 am • 4 0 • view
🤣🤣
aug 29, 2025, 3:21 am • 0 0 • view
😱😂
aug 29, 2025, 4:29 am • 0 0 • view
the human body makes ~50 ml of formaldehyde every day. If it didn't, you'd die.
aug 29, 2025, 5:25 am • 1 0 • view
Why do I think RFK Jr. is going make this situation worse.
aug 29, 2025, 3:36 am • 0 0 • view
Well, that’s terrifying. All those areas in NYC that are high risk. Uh oh, my zip code is worse. I’m never leaving my house again.
aug 29, 2025, 1:19 pm • 0 0 • view
Google this: “What common household paper products have been made with formaldehyde?”
aug 29, 2025, 3:55 am • 1 0 • view
I’ll pass. I already Google way too much health related stuff. Damn it. Now I want to Google that question.
aug 29, 2025, 1:21 pm • 1 0 • view
Scrolling through Bluesky and seeing one horrible thing after another and of course to top it off I had to look up my address and find out I live in an area with a high secondary source formaldehyde. JFC. Is there anything good happening ANYWHERE?
aug 29, 2025, 4:28 am • 5 0 • view
I don't know where it's coming from, because I'm in the middle of nowhere, but YIKES
aug 29, 2025, 3:27 am • 7 0 • view
Every address I looked up had that same number, in 3 different states, so 🤷♂️
aug 29, 2025, 6:35 am • 7 0 • view
Shittt mine was 1 in 42,000! (I live right on the side of a freeway exit, I already know I'm doomed) 😩😩
aug 29, 2025, 3:39 am • 1 0 • view
Ooh, I didn't even think about that, just assumed I was far enough away that it wouldn't be an issue. But I can hear it at night. I bet it's also contributing some; we don't have THAT many oak, poplar, or willow trees
aug 29, 2025, 3:46 am • 1 0 • view
Secondary formaldehyde formation is the most likely culprit. e.g., I'm downwind of a freeway + normal street traffic adds to nitrogen oxide in the local air. Under certain circumstances, this interacts with isoprene, released by some trees, to form formaldehyde. biologyinsights.com/why-do-trees...
aug 29, 2025, 3:41 am • 2 0 • view
Oh shit seriously
aug 29, 2025, 3:35 am • 1 0 • view
It is needlessly put in most items in your home and that your home is built from. Its carcenogenicity is well-known in Public Health circles!! Capitalism, USA-style is killing us, literally!! The Planet too!!
aug 29, 2025, 4:04 am • 1 0 • view
This is a useful data tool. Thanks!
aug 29, 2025, 3:12 am • 0 0 • view