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Toxic legacy seeps from melting Alpine glaciers: study

Space & Earth / Environment

created Oct 14, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Swiss researchers have found that Alpine glaciers melting under the impact of climate change are releasing highly toxic pollutants that had been absorbed by the ice for decades.


EPA reviews Univ. of Michigan dioxin study

Medicine & Health / Health

created Oct 01, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development has completed its review of a dioxin exposure study conducted by the University of Michigan in the Midland-Saginaw, Michigan area. EPA found the study ...


Environmental chemicals found in breast milk and high incidence of testicular cancer

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created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A comparison of breast milk samples from Denmark and Finland revealed a significant difference in environmental chemicals which have previously been implicated in testicular cancer or in adversely affecting development of ...


Survey: Dioxin levels high in Vietnam near US base (AP)

Survey: Dioxin levels high in Vietnam near US base

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created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(AP) -- New environmental tests confirm extremely high levels of dioxin, the toxic ingredient of Agent Orange, in people, fish and soil near a former U.S. air base where American troops stored the herbicide ...


EPA announces dioxin review, plans for Dow cleanup

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created May 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(AP) -- The federal government is taking another look at the long-debated question of how chemicals called dioxins affect human health and the environment.