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Children's lead poisoning drops

Medicine & Health / Health

created May 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- In 2007, 416 children were reported to have elevated blood lead levels in Los Angeles County, a dramatic improvement from 10 years earlier, when fewer children were tested but 1,184 reports of children with ...





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Report: Great Lakes toxic cleanups lagging badly

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 15, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(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.


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Report blames petroleum industry for 25% of toxic pollutants

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jun 11, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (5) | comments 3

The US petroleum industry accounted for a quarter of toxic pollutants recorded across North America in 2005 by a government-backed environmental watchdog, an annual report said on Wednesday.


Green production guidelines give 'road map' for new administration

Green production guidelines give 'road map' for new administration

Space & Earth / Environment

created Sep 01, 2009 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

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 ...


Bird flu virus remains infectious up to 600 days in municipal landfills

Bird flu virus remains infectious up to 600 days in municipal landfills

Medicine & Health / Diseases

created May 27, 2009 | popularity 1.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Amid concerns about a pandemic of swine flu, researchers from Nebraska report for the first time that poultry carcasses infected with another threat — the 'bird flu' virus — can remain infectious in municipal ...


Coordination needed to support green-fingered youths

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Aug 13, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The project, which was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), found that many young volunteers travelled long distances from cities to short-term projects in rural areas and felt they were being punished ...


American Cancer Society calls for new strategies to monitor exposure to environmental carcinogens

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A new report from an American Cancer Society scientific advisory subcommittee on cancer and the environment says exposure to carcinogens should be minimized or eliminated whenever feasible, and calls for new strategies to ...


Waters along upper Atlantic seaboard the most pristine, report says

Space & Earth / Environment

created Jul 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

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.


'Perspectives on Energy Policy' report now available

Technology / Energy

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The United States should create a high-level independent council to analyze and communicate critical issues to energy policymakers and the public, a group of 27 leaders in academia, government, and the private sector recommends ...


Nature or nurture? New epigenetic model blurs the line in the debate

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A research report published in the July 2009 issue of the journal Genetics complicates the debate over whether nature or nurture plays the most important role in complex diseases such as psychiatric disorders, heart diseas ...


Marine ecosystems get a climate form guide

Marine ecosystems get a climate form guide

Space & Earth / Environment

created Nov 27, 2009 | popularity 3.4 / 5 (5) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The first-ever Australian benchmark of climate change impacts on marine ecosystems and options for adaptation is being released in Brisbane today.



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