http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. (PhysOrg.com) -- Chemical pesticides are among the tools farmers often use in managing insects dedicated to dining on our nation`s harvest. Pesticides, unfortunately, are not without risk to those who labor in the fields and orchards, planting, tending and harvesting crops. http://www.physorg.com/news176661502.html Medicine & Health Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:40:01 EST news176661502 Paved parking lots and driveways make our lives easier, but they often create an easy pathway for pollutants to reach underground water sources and alter the natural flow of water back into the ground. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced a study that will investigate ways to reduce pollution that can run off paved surfaces and improve how water filters back into the ground. http://www.physorg.com/news175952358.html Space & Earth Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:39:52 EST news175952358 (AP) -- A Senate plan to tackle global warming would add about $100 a year to the energy costs for a typical household, according to an analysis by the Environmental Protection Agency. http://www.physorg.com/news175693040.html Space & Earth Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:10:01 EST news175693040 Ford Motor Co. will haul out piles of arsenic-laced soil found in Ringwood State Park in New Jersey, ending a nearly-four-year battle over the source of the waste. http://www.physorg.com/news175266009.html Space & Earth Tue, 20 Oct 2009 14:50:01 EST news175266009 (AP) -- Crews dredging a polluted stretch of the upper Hudson River this year battled high water, old logging debris and unexpected levels of PCB contamination that slowed progress. http://www.physorg.com/news174490030.html Space & Earth Sun, 11 Oct 2009 14:50:01 EST news174490030 The anticipated sea-level rise associated with climate change, including increased storminess, over the next 100 years and the impact on the nation's low-lying coastal infrastructure is the focus of a new, interdisciplinary study led by geologists at The Florida State University. http://www.physorg.com/news173973967.html Space & Earth Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:20:01 EST news173973967 In a sea of energy-guzzling consumer products, the government's EnergyStar sticker is a beacon of light for many energy-conscious consumers. But that little blue square with a star on it might not be so bright after all, according to Consumer Reports, which claims that the decades-old program is in need of some major upgrades. http://www.physorg.com/news173971372.html Space & Earth Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:10:04 EST news173971372 (AP) -- Hundreds of school buildings across the United States have caulk around windows and doors containing potentially cancer-causing PCBs, the Environmental Protection Agency says. http://www.physorg.com/news173366342.html Space & Earth Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:29:34 EST news173366342 (AP) -- Over the last decade, the drinking water at thousands of schools across the country has been found to contain unsafe levels of lead, pesticides and dozens of other toxins. http://www.physorg.com/news173077186.html Space & Earth Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:00:23 EST news173077186 (AP) -- Abandoned mercury mines throughout central California's rugged coastal mountains are polluting the state's major waterways, rendering fish unsafe to eat and risking the health of at least 100,000 impoverished people. http://www.physorg.com/news172473568.html Space & Earth Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:32:41 EST news172473568 (PhysOrg.com) -- Envision a distasteful trip to the curb to take out the trash as a pleasant -- and profitable -- stroll. Some juiceless batteries - those are good for a few cents. An old keyboard might fetch a couple of bucks. Even that empty box of Pop-Tarts might be worth something. http://www.physorg.com/news172418366.html Technology Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:05:41 EST news172418366 The Environmental Protection Agency announced Friday that 79 applications for surface coal-mine permits in Kentucky, West Virginia, Ohio and Tennessee might violate the nation's Clean Water Act and require closer scrutiny. http://www.physorg.com/news172252264.html Space & Earth Tue, 15 Sep 2009 23:00:02 EST news172252264 (AP) -- A federal report says the government is moving so slowly to clean up the most polluted sites in the Great Lakes that it will take 77 more years to finish the job at the current pace. http://www.physorg.com/news172257507.html Space & Earth Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:40:02 EST news172257507 Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory have patented a new method to remove toxic mercury from soil, sediment, sludge and other industrial waste. As described in recently awarded U.S. patent number 7,589,248 and application U.S. Publication No. 20080097138, the method allows mercury to be treated in situ - at its original location in the ground. http://www.physorg.com/news172238217.html Chemistry Tue, 15 Sep 2009 12:57:49 EST news172238217 People living in the Seveso area of Italy, which was exposed to dioxin after an industrial accident in 1976, have experienced an increased risk of developing cancer. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access journal Environmental Health found an increased risk of breast cancer in women from the most exposed zone and an excess of lymphatic and hematopoietic tissue neoplasms in all but the least exposed zone. http://www.physorg.com/news172176738.html Medicine & Health Mon, 14 Sep 2009 20:10:01 EST news172176738 NOAA, along with the Environmental Protection Agency, the International City/County Management Association and Rhode Island Sea Grant, has released a guide to bring smart growth to coastal and waterfront communities. http://www.physorg.com/news171802223.html Space & Earth Thu, 10 Sep 2009 12:00:01 EST news171802223 The five-story-tall engines on oceangoing vessels burn some of the dirtiest oil -- bottom-of-the-barrel bunker -- and churn out a substantial amount of the air pollution in American port cities, coastal communities along shipping lanes and places hundreds of miles inland. http://www.physorg.com/news171549911.html Space & Earth Mon, 07 Sep 2009 14:06:30 EST news171549911 With good directions, anyone can find the right path. That's what George Mason University Professor Nicole Darnall is hoping with her new report that gives clear guidelines on how the government can help businesses "go green" and how being green will even help companies financially in the long-run. http://www.physorg.com/news171050674.html Space & Earth Tue, 01 Sep 2009 20:50:02 EST news171050674 This is a fish tale in which smaller is better than bigger, especially if the catch is to be eaten in any quantity. http://www.physorg.com/news170963750.html Space & Earth Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:56:20 EST news170963750 Exposure to carbon monoxide, even at levels well below national limits, is associated with an increased risk of hospitalization for the elderly with heart problems, according to a study published today in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. http://www.physorg.com/news170956364.html Medicine & Health Mon, 31 Aug 2009 16:53:23 EST news170956364 The nation's largest business lobby wants to put the science of global warming on trial. The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, trying to ward off potentially sweeping federal emissions regulations, is pushing the Environmental Protection Agency to hold a rare public hearing on the scientific evidence of man-made climate change. http://www.physorg.com/news170441292.html Space & Earth Tue, 25 Aug 2009 18:40:01 EST news170441292 (AP) -- No fish can escape mercury pollution. That's the take-home message from a federal study of mercury contamination released Wednesday that tested fish from nearly 300 streams across the country. http://www.physorg.com/news169918191.html Space & Earth Wed, 19 Aug 2009 16:40:02 EST news169918191 The four-day testing period the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) commonly uses to determine safe levels of pesticide exposure for humans and animals could fail to account for the toxins' long-term effects, University of Pittsburgh researchers report in the September edition of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry. http://www.physorg.com/news169737771.html Space & Earth Mon, 17 Aug 2009 14:40:03 EST news169737771 (AP) -- Cars and light trucks sold in July got more miles per gallon than those sold in previous months, say researchers, who credit the Cash for Clunkers program. http://www.physorg.com/news169202434.html Technology Tue, 11 Aug 2009 10:00:02 EST news169202434 The nation's cleanest beachwaters are along the upper half of the Atlantic seaboard, in Virginia, Delaware and New Hampshire, a national environmental group said Wednesday. http://www.physorg.com/news168198589.html Space & Earth Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:10:01 EST news168198589 (AP) -- Wade McGillis peered up at the structure propped like a high-tech stick figure - minus the head - on an elementary school roof. Then he examined the electronics attached to its spindly metal frame, looking out over the Harlem brownstones nearby and the skyscrapers farther away. http://www.physorg.com/news167236812.html Space & Earth Sun, 19 Jul 2009 15:40:53 EST news167236812 (AP) -- A pet Burmese python broke out of a glass cage last week and killed a 2-year-old girl in her Florida bedroom. The tragedy became the latest and most graphic example of a problem that has plagued the state for more than a decade: a nonnative species that is wreaking havoc in the Everglades, threatening people, the environment and native wildlife. http://www.physorg.com/news166298108.html Biology Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:55:32 EST news166298108 The Environmental Protection Agency on Monday released a list of 44 coal-fired power plant waste sites in 10 states with a high hazard potential, including 12 sites in North Carolina, seven in Kentucky and a large storage pond in Pennsylvania. http://www.physorg.com/news165567628.html Space & Earth Tue, 30 Jun 2009 08:50:01 EST news165567628 Coal industry advocates and environmentalists converged on Capitol Hill on Thursday at a congressional hearing on the impact of mountaintop removal mining on Appalachian streams and rivers. http://www.physorg.com/news165226200.html Space & Earth Fri, 26 Jun 2009 09:30:01 EST news165226200 Fast and green. That's what it takes to get to the winner's circle in a new type of auto racing. http://www.physorg.com/news165146927.html Chemistry Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:09:13 EST news165146927