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Boys with urogenital birth defects are 33 percent more common in villages sprayed with DDT
Oct 23, 2009 |
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Women who lived in villages sprayed with DDT to reduce malaria gave birth to 33 per cent more baby boys with urogenital birth defects (UGBD) between 2004 and 2006 than women in unsprayed villages, according to research published ...
Toxins in Lake Michigan fish linked to diabetes
Aug 31, 2009 |
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This is a fish tale in which smaller is better than bigger, especially if the catch is to be eaten in any quantity.
Skip this cocktail party: Contaminants in marine mammals' brains
May 20, 2009 |
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The most extensive study of pollutants in marine mammals' brains reveals that these animals are exposed to a hazardous cocktail of pesticides such as DDTs and PCBs, as well as emerging contaminants such as brominated flame ...
Unprecedented use of DDT concerns experts
May 04, 2009 |
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A panel of experts and citizens convened to review recent studies on the link between DDT and human health expressed concern that the current practice of spraying the pesticide indoors to fight malaria is leading to unprecedented ...
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Melting glaciers may release DDT and contaminate Antarctic environment
May 26, 2008 |
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In an unexpected consequence of climate change, scientists are raising the possibility that glacial melting is releasing large amounts of the banned pesticide DDT, which is contaminating the environment in ...
Team finds key mechanism of DDT resistance in malarial mosquitoes
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Jun 16, 2008 |
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University of Illinois researchers have identified a key detoxifying protein in Anopheles mosquitoes that metabolizes DDT, a synthetic insecticide used since World War II to control the mosquitoes that spread ...
Bald eagles settle in U.S. winter locales
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Jan 06, 2008 |
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Thousands of bald eagles have gathered in their wintering haunts along the Mississippi and other rivers in the central United States.
How DDT metabolite disrupts breast cancer cells
Feb 14, 2008 |
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Research has shown that the main metabolite of the insecticide DDT could be associated with aggressive breast cancer tumours, but there has been no explanation for this observation to date. Now a report published in the open ...
'Buckyballs' have high potential to accumulate in living tissue
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Sep 18, 2008 |
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Research at Purdue University suggests synthetic carbon molecules called fullerenes, or buckyballs, have a high potential of being accumulated in animal tissue, but the molecules also appear to break down in sunlight, perhaps ...
UN: Treaty expanded by 9 more dangerous chemicals
May 09, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A U.N.-sponsored treaty to combat highly dangerous chemicals has been expanded beyond the original "dirty dozen" to include nine more substances that are used in pesticides, flame retardants and other products, U.N. ...
Environmental pollution and diabetes may be linked
Jan 25, 2008 |
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Cambridge scientists are advocating additional research into the little understood links between environmental pollution and type 2 diabetes.
Exposure to insecticide may play role in obesity epidemic among some women
Mar 19, 2009 |
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Prenatal exposure to an insecticide commonly used up until the 1970s may play a role in the obesity epidemic in women, according to a new study involving several Michigan State University researchers.
Herons persist in Chicago wetlands despite exposure to banned chemicals
Jan 16, 2008 |
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Herons nesting in the wetlands of southeast Chicago are still being exposed to chemicals banned in the U.S. in the 1970s, a research team reports. The chemicals do not appear to be affecting the birds’ reproductive ...
Gov't says brown pelicans are endangered no longer
Nov 11, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Much like its death-defying dives for fish, the brown pelican has resurfaced after plummeting to the brink of extinction.
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