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Institute Of Medicine Annual Meeting Oct. 12 Features Election Of Members, Awards And Public Symposium
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The Institute of Medicine's 39th annual meeting will include the announcement of new members and a public symposium that explores the role of the environment in health with in-depth discussions about safe water and the impacts of urbanization and climate change on the health of people. In addition, IOM will present the Gustav O.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - October 7, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Two UC Riverside Scientists Selected As Entomological Society Of America FellowsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Brian A. Federici and Alexander S. Raikhel, distinguished professors of entomology at the University of California, Riverside, have been selected as fellows of the Entomological Society of America (ESA). This year's fellows bring the total number of UC Riverside faculty members who have received this distinction to 11 (three are deceased).
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - August 31, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Tropical Diseases Source Type: news
American Lung Association Calls For Tighter Nitrogen Dioxide Air Pollution StandardEmail this article to a colleague.
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The American Lung Association calls on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to strengthen the national ambient air quality standards for nitrogen dioxide (NO2). EPA is expected to release its proposal to revise this public health standard that has remained unchanged since 1971. Changes to the national air quality standard for NO2 pollution will become the new official limit on this air pollutant that each county in the nation must meet.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 29, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Radionuclide Contamination At DOE Sites Addressed By New ResearchEmail this article to a colleague.
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Five years from now, Lab scientists will be able to better determine how, when and why plutonium moves in soil and groundwater. The way to predict how plutonium is transported in groundwater away from a site is by looking at the dominant geochemical processes that control plutonium's (Pu) behavior in the subsurface at environmental levels. But that isn't always so easy.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 29, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Researchers Looking At Climate Change, Culture To Predict Land Abandonment In RussiaEmail this article to a colleague.
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Kirsten de Beurs, an assistant geography professor in Virginia Tech's College of Natural Resources, has received a NASA grant to direct a large international land abandonment study in Russia with Grigory Ioffe of Radford University, Geoffrey Henebry of South Dakota State University, and in-country collaborator Tatyana Nefedova. The study will incorporate population trends, cultural factors, and climate change in predicting land abandonment patterns.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 27, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Projected Food, Energy Demands Seen To Outpace ProductionEmail this article to a colleague.
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With the caloric needs of the planet expected to soar by 50 percent in the next 40 years, planning and investment in global agriculture will become critically important, according a new report released recently.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 27, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
High Cancer Levels In Wildlife Should Concern Humans, Says WCSEmail this article to a colleague.
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While cancer touches the lives of many humans, it is also a major threat to wild animal populations as well, according to a recent study by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). A newly published paper in the July edition of Nature Reviews Cancer compiles information on cancer in wildlife and suggests that cancer poses a conservation threat to certain species. The WCS authors highlight the critical need to protect both animals and people through increased health monitoring.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 26, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Cancer / Oncology Source Type: news
New Publication Shows Index Insurance Has Potential To Help Manage Climate Risks And Reduce PovertyEmail this article to a colleague.
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Climate has always presented a challenge to farmers, herders, fishermen and others whose livelihoods are closely linked to their environment, particularly those in poor areas of the world. A type of insurance, called index insurance, now offers significant opportunities as a climate-risk management tool in developing countries, according to a new publication launched today during a workshop at the Global Humanitarian Forum (GHF) in Geneva.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 26, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Dry Autumns And Winters May Lead To Fewer Tornadoes In The Spring, Says UGA ResearcherEmail this article to a colleague.
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Global warming will likely mean more unpredictable weather, scientists say, and a new study by researchers at the University of Georgia pins down, possibly for the first time, how drought conditions in an area's fall and winter may effect tornado activity the following spring.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 26, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Air Traffic Pollution Linked to Increased Risk of Preeclampsia and Preterm Birth in Southern California, StudyEmail this article to a colleague.
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A new study by scientists in California concluded that exposure to local traffic-generated air pollution is linked to an increased risk of preeclampsia and preterm births in Southern Californian women.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 26, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Pregnancy / Obstetrics Source Type: news
Close Relationship Between Past Warming And Sea-Level RiseEmail this article to a colleague.
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In a paper in Nature Geoscience, a team from the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton (NOCS), along with colleagues from Tübingen (Germany) and Bristol presents a novel continuous reconstruction of sea level fluctuations over the last 520 thousand years.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 24, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Leading Scientists And Scholars Urge Action On Climate IssuesEmail this article to a colleague.
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In an open letter addressed to President Barack Obama and the United States Congress, twenty leading scientists and scholars assert that the currently stated objectives in limiting the climatic disruption are grossly inadequate and urge the nation's leadership to take clear leadership towards meet the objectives of the 1992 Framework Convention on Climate Change, steps necessary to avert a "global climatic catastrophe".
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 24, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Study Advises Chinese Government To Change Fuel In Millions Of HouseholdsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Scientists in China are recommending that the Chinese government consider phasing out the direct burning of traditional chunks of coal in millions of households. It suggests that the government substitute coal briquettes and improved stoves for cooking and heating to help reduce the country's high air pollution levels.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 23, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
'Green' Fireworks May Brighten Eco-Friendly 4th Of July Displays In FutureEmail this article to a colleague.
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With millions of people in the United States eagerly awaiting those July 4 fireworks displays - and our Canadian neighbors doing likewise for their July 1 Canada Day celebrations - here's a prospect for those light shows of the future likely to ignite a smile on Mother Nature's face: A new generation of "green" fireworks is quietly making its way toward the sky. That's "green" as in environmentally friendly.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 23, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Athletes, Spectators Faced Unprecedented Air Pollution At 2008 Olympic GamesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Particulate air pollution during the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing constantly exceeded levels considered excessive by the World Health Organization, was far worse than other recent Olympic Games, and was about 30 percent higher than has been reported by Chinese environmental experts - even though some favorable weather conditions helped reduce the problem.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 22, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Important Symbol Of Pollution Is Broken Down By MicrobesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Immobilized microbes can break down potentially harmful phthalates, according to researchers in China, writing in the International Journal of Environment and Pollution. The microbes might be used to treat industrial waste water and so prevent these materials from entering the environment. Phthalic Acid Esters (PAEs), commonly known as phthalates, are widely used as additives in polymer manufacture as plasticizers.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 22, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
GM Crops - The Elephant In The Room? - Sustainable Agriculture Still Low Down On EU Climate Change AgendaEmail this article to a colleague.
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GM crops can and already do play an important role in reducing the negative environmental impacts of agriculture and feeding a growing population in a worsening climate, reveals a report published today by EuropaBio[i]. Furthermore, this contribution will only increase as their cultivation becomes even more widely adopted around the world.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 22, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Troubled Waters: Low Apalachicola River Flow May Hurt Gulf FisheriesEmail this article to a colleague.
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Reductions in the flow of the Apalachicola River have far-reaching effects that could prove detrimental to grouper and other reef fish populations in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico, according to a new Florida State University study that may provide new ammunition for states engaged in a nearly two-decade water war.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 22, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Canada And U.S. Reach Agreement To Create More Opportunities For Organic ProducersEmail this article to a colleague.
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Canada and the United States have reached an agreement that will give organic producers access to more markets and make sure Canadian families can find more organic products in their grocery stores. "We are working closely with our American neighbours to make sure we have clear, consistent regulations for our organic producers and top-quality standards for consumers," said Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 22, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Sudden Collapse In Ancient Biodiversity: Was Global Warming The Culprit?Email this article to a colleague.
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Scientists have unearthed striking evidence for a sudden ancient collapse in plant biodiversity. A trove of 200 million-year-old fossil leaves collected in East Greenland tells the story, carrying its message across time to us today. Results of the research appear in this week's issue of the journal Science.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 20, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
British Climate Act 'Failed Before It Started'Email this article to a colleague.
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The British Climate Act is flawed and comprised of unrealistic and unobtainable targets, writes US academic Roger A Pielke Jr, in a journal paper published on the 18th June, 2009, in IOP Publishing's Environmental Research Letters.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 20, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Study Highlights Massive Imbalances In Global Fertilizer UseEmail this article to a colleague.
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Synthetic fertilizers have dramatically increased food production worldwide. But the unintended costs to the environment and human health have been substantial. Nitrogen runoff from farms has contaminated surface and groundwater and helped create massive "dead zones" in coastal areas, such as the Gulf of Mexico. And ammonia from fertilized cropland has become a major source of air pollution, while emissions of nitrous oxide form a potent greenhouse gas.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 20, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
New Study Finds That Sharing Genetic Resources Key To Adaptation To Climate Change In AfricaEmail this article to a colleague.
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As rapidly rising temperatures in Africa threaten to scorch local varieties of maize and other food staples, the food security of many Africans will depend on farmers in one country gaining access to climatically suitable varieties now being cultivated in other African nations, and beyond, according to a peer-reviewed study published in Global Environmental Change.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 20, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Houston Endowment Will Fund Study To Prepare For Next Big StormEmail this article to a colleague.
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With an estimated price tag around $30 billion, Hurricane Ike ranks as the third-costliest hurricane in U.S. history. Yet Ike delivered only a glancing blow to Houston, and it was just a Category 2 hurricane when it made landfall.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 19, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
University Of Houston Diesel Testing Center Teams With State Transportation Agency To Cut EmissionsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The Texas Diesel Testing and Research Center at the University of Houston, in partnership with the Texas Department of Transportation, has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the Environmental Protection Agency to test a system designed to reduce emissions produced by construction vehicles. "Improving air quality is one of TxDOT's five core goals, and this grant helps us to accomplish that mission," TxDOT Deputy Executive Director Steve Simmons said.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 19, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Protecting The Food Crops Of The FutureEmail this article to a colleague.
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Biologists are investigating how to control when plants flower - to help farmers reap a bumper harvest. The University of Leeds team will also investigate whether the flowering process can be made more robust and able to withstand predicted changes in the climate. Professor of Plant Development at the University, Brendan Davies, says: "Flowers are vital to the plant reproduction process as pollination leads to the development of the fruit, where the seeds are found.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 19, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Mercury In Mackenzie River Delta Dramatically Higher Than Previously BelievedEmail this article to a colleague.
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University of Alberta researchers conducting a water study in the Mackenzie River Delta have found a dramatically higher delivery of mercury from the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean than determined in previous studies. Researcher Jennifer Graydon analyzed water in the Mackenzie River as it flowed north into the Beaufort Sea.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - June 18, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Membrane Filters Are Key To Future Of Public Water Supply, UH Scientists SayEmail this article to a colleague.
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As municipalities across the United States reduce their dependence on groundwater sources to mitigate environmental impacts like subsidence and flooding, there is a growing need for better purification processes to keep contaminants found in surface water sources out of the public tap. Without a drop of hesitation, University of Houston environmental engineer Shankar Chellam says the answer is clear: super-thin membrane filters.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - April 23, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Plants Could Override Climate Change Effects On WildfiresEmail this article to a colleague.
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The increase in warmer and drier climates predicted to occur under climate change scenarios has led many scientists to also predict a global increase in the number of wildfires. But a new study in the May issue of Ecological Monographs shows that in some cases, changes in the types of plants growing in an area could override the effects of climate change on wildfire frequency.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - April 23, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack Returns From Successful G8 Agriculture Ministerial On Food SecurityEmail this article to a colleague.
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On Monday, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack returned from the first-ever gathering of the G8 Agriculture Ministerial, held in Treviso, Italy. "I am pleased to report that the G8 Agriculture Ministerial has produced a strong declaration of support for the critically important task of promoting food security," said Vilsack.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - April 21, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Study Of 1999 Super Cyclone Finds Mangroves Save Lives In StormsEmail this article to a colleague.
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A new study of storm-related deaths from a super cyclone that hit the eastern coast of India in 1999 finds that villages shielded from the storm surge by mangrove forests experienced significantly fewer deaths than villages that were less protected. The study, conducted by researchers at the University of Delhi and Duke University, analyzed deaths in 409 villages in the poor, mostly rural Kendrapada District of the Indian state of Orissa, just north of the cyclone's landfall.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - April 16, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Rocket Fuel Chemical Found In Powdered Baby's Milk, USEmail this article to a colleague.
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Last month the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reported they had found 15 brands of powdered infant formula were contaminated with perchlorate, a component of rocket fuel that has been found in drinking water in 28 states and territories, and thought mostly to be a legacy of the Cold War because of rocket and missile trials.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - April 6, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Pediatrics / Children's Health Source Type: news
Effects Of Climate Change On Infectious Diseases Questioned By EcologistsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Recent research has predicted that climate change may expand the scope of human infectious diseases. A new review, however, argues that climate change may have a negligible effect on pathogens or even reduce their ranges. The paper has sparked debate in the ecological community. In a forum in the April issue of Ecology, Kevin Lafferty of the U.S.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - April 3, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Source Type: news
Obtaining Biogas From Food Industry WasteEmail this article to a colleague.
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The AZTI-Tecnalia technological centre, experts in food research, have put a biogas plant into operation in order to investigate novel systems of sustainable energy production based on the use of waste and sub-products from the food industry. This new plant exploits the enormous potential of obtaining biogas from the organic matter contained in agricultural food waste, and will help the food industry to reduce the environmental impact caused by organic waste.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - April 2, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Wheat Curl Mite Might Require Non-Chemical ControlEmail this article to a colleague.
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The wheat curl mite is a minute menace that wreaks havoc on the region's wheat crop; but it has no enemies currently that can take it out. That doesn't mean Texas AgriLife Research scientists aren't trying to find ways to curb its appetite. Three AgriLife Research scientists, working under Dr. Charlie Rush in plant pathology and Dr.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - April 2, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Climate Change Fears For Deadly Virus Outbreaks In LivestockEmail this article to a colleague.
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Global warming could have chilling consequences for European livestock, warned Professor Peter Mertens from the Institute for Animal Health, at this week's meeting of the Society for General Microbiology in Harrogate. Since 1998, rising temperatures have led to outbreaks of bluetongue (BT) across most of Europe, which have killed over 2 million ruminants (mainly sheep).
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - April 1, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Infectious Diseases / Bacteria / Viruses Source Type: news
Managing The World's Water Resources Key For Future GenerationsEmail this article to a colleague.
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World Water Day 2009 calls for collective action to tackle the issue of access to safe drinking water and water sharing. This year's theme - transboundary waters - aims to increase global understanding of the need to manage water resources in an integrated manner. Cooperation is the key to properly managing the world's water resources, particularly when watercourses cross national boundaries.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - March 25, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Researchers Measure Health Effects Of Chicago's WaterwaysEmail this article to a colleague.
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Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health are conducting a study to determine the health effects associated with recreational activities such as boating, canoeing, kayaking and fishing on Chicago's waterways. The Chicago Health, Environmental Exposure, and Recreation Study, or CHEERS, is funded by the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - March 24, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Particulate Matter Reaches Downtown PittsburghEmail this article to a colleague.
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Carnegie Mellon University's Cliff I. Davidson, Joseph B. Kadane and Nanjun Chu have found that polluted air in the highly populated East End areas of Pittsburgh are more affected by major sources to the city's southeast than previously thought. Because more than three-quarters of particulate matter found in the city originates from outside the Pittsburgh urban area - mainly to the west - the importance of certain air quality sources had not been quantified in the past.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - March 19, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Respiratory / Asthma Source Type: news
Projects To Purify Drinking Water In Guatemala, South Africa Aim To Improve Health Of ResidentsEmail this article to a colleague.
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The device looks deceptively simple - a porous clay pot placed in a five-gallon plastic bucket with a spigot - but Vinka Craver believes it can save millions of lives each year. The assistant professor of civil and environmental engineering at the University of Rhode Island says that when water is poured into the ceramic pot and it passes through to the bucket, the water is purified and becomes safe to drink.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - March 17, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
New 'Pollution Radar' Developed To Provide Unprecedented Picture Of Urban SmogEmail this article to a colleague.
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Scientists and industrialists have invented a sophisticated new air quality measuring device that can act as a pollution radar over cities. A team from the Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd, the University of Leicester and EADS Astrium are behind the technology that can be placed on satellites to provide unprecedented detail of gases in the atmosphere. The researchers are also developing ground-based instruments this year, which will be able to create 3D maps of atmospheric gases.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - March 10, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Respiratory / Asthma Source Type: news
CWP Welcomes Plans To Slash NHS Carbon FootprintEmail this article to a colleague.
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A local mental health Trust in Chester is taking the lead after the launch of this week's NHS strategy to cut carbon emissions. Saving Carbon, Improving Health, the NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy for England sets the ambition for the NHS, including Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (CWP), to drive change toward a low carbon society and pinpoints key actions for the NHS to take to become a leading sustainable and low carbon organisation.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - February 19, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
The Air We Breathe And Water We Drink May Be More Harmful Than We Realize According To Carlos Crespo's Research TeamEmail this article to a colleague.
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Is the air we breathe on a daily basis slowly killing us? It may not be that severe, but the air we breathe and water we drink may be more harmful than we realize.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - February 18, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Research Finds New Cause Of Ozone Wheezing And Potential TreatmentsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Researchers at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS), part of the National Institutes of Health, and Duke University have discovered a cause of airway irritation and wheezing after exposure to ozone, a common urban air pollutant. Using an animal model, the researchers were also able to identify several ways to stop the airways from narrowing.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - February 5, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Substantial Work Ahead For Water Issues, Say Scientists At ACS' Final Report BriefingEmail this article to a colleague.
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Scientists and engineers will face a host of obstacles over the next decade in providing clean water to millions of people caught up in a water shortage crisis, a panel of scientists and engineers said today at a briefing at the Broadcast Center of the National Press Building on the Final Report on the American Chemical Society's Global Challenges/Chemistry Solutions.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - January 28, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
The NHS Unveils Plans To Slash Its Carbon Footprint, UKEmail this article to a colleague.
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The NHS will today pledge to become one of England's leading sustainable and low carbon organisations and to meet the Government's target of an 80 per cent reduction in carbon emissions by 2050. This pledge is set out in a new Strategy, Saving Carbon, Improving Health, which will be launched by NHS Chief Executive, David Nicholson, and NHS Sustainable Development Unit Director, Dr David Pencheon. The NHS has a carbon footprint of 18 million tonnes of CO2 per year - 3.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - January 28, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Earthquakes, El Ninos Fatal To Earliest Civilization In AmericasEmail this article to a colleague.
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First came the earthquakes, then the torrential rains. But the relentless march of sand across once fertile fields and bays, a process set in motion by the quakes and flooding, is probably what did in America's earliest civilization.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - January 21, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
Possible New Hope For Crops Battling Parasitic InfectionEmail this article to a colleague.
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Scientists from Ghent University and VIB (The Flemisch Institute for Biotechnology) have demonstrated how nematodes, also known as roundworms, manipulate the transport of the plant hormone auxin in order to force the plant to produce food for them. Their findings, published January 16 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens, could open up new possibilities for the development of nematode-resistant plants.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - January 16, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Biology / Biochemistry Source Type: news
Mendel Biotechnology Yield Trait Reaches Phase III For Monsanto Soybean ProductsEmail this article to a colleague.
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Monsanto Company ("Monsanto") announced earlier this week that it has advanced its higher yielding soybean trait, sourced from Mendel Biotechnology, Inc. ("Mendel"), into its Phase III development stage. The technology was identified and developed through a research program funded by Monsanto, designed to leverage Mendel's expertise in regulatory pathways and network biology.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - January 12, 2009 Category: Nutrition Tags: Pharma Industry / Biotech Industry Source Type: news
Some Climate Impacts Happening Faster Than AnticipatedEmail this article to a colleague.
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A report released recently at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union provides new insights on the potential for abrupt climate change and the effects it could have on the United States, identifying key concerns that include faster-than-expected loss of sea ice, rising sea levels and a possibly permanent state of drought in the American Southwest. The analysis is one of 21 of its type developed by a number of academic and government agency researchers for the U.S.
Source: Water Quality / Air Quality News From Medical News Today - December 19, 2008 Category: Nutrition Tags: Water - Air Quality / Agriculture Source Type: news
