Archive for the ‘Water - Air Quality’ Category
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008
Growing demands for water in many parts of the nation present significant challenges to effective management of water resources. Each year the National Academy of Sciences presents the Gilbert F. White Lecture in the Geographical Sciences, named in honor of the geographer who identified major water management strategies and examined ...
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Tuesday, February 19th, 2008
A team of scientists from Denmark and Sweden discovered that indoor air polluted with tiny particles that are breathed in and get into the bloodstream affected the performance of blood vessels, and potentially increased the risk of cardiovascular disease, in elderly people. When the air quality was improved using filters, ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
The Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, launched the London-wide Low Emission Zone, designed to reduce harmful emissions from the most polluting diesel-engined lorries, coaches and buses. Cars and motorcycles are not affected.
The capital has the worst air pollution in the UK and among the worst in Europe. Over one million ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
People with diabetes will still have access to animal insulin once Novo Nordisk withdraws its pork (porcine) insulins this December.
Wockhardt UK says it will continue to supply Hypurin porcine and bovine insulin, giving people with diabetes a much-needed choice of treatment.
Cathy Moulton, Diabetes UK care advisor , maintains that it ...
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
The Government of Canada and the Province of Ontario have committed new funding to eradicate plum pox virus in order to protect Canadian tender fruit producers, the Honourable Gerry Ritz, Minister of Agriculture and Agri-food Canada and the Minister responsible for the Canadian Wheat Board announced yersterday.
Plum pox virus, an ...
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Monday, October 29th, 2007
We could be on the brink of natural disaster and even the gloomiest predictions of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest report are underestimating the current severity of climate change, Professor James Lovelock will say at a public lecture at the Royal Society (1) the UK National Academy ...
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Tuesday, October 9th, 2007
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) welcomes the unanimous vote on 3 October to raise the age at which bovine vertebral column (VC) is classified as specified risk material (SRM) from 24 months to 30 months. This change restores the VC SRM controls in the UK to the position pre May ...
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Sunday, September 23rd, 2007
Life for Relief and Development (LIFE), an American non-profit humanitarian relief organization based in Southfield Michigan, as part of its ongoing efforts to alleviate human suffering, and in partnership with Veterans for Peace (VFW), an American non-governmental organization based in St. Louis, Missouri, completed a ...
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Saturday, September 1st, 2007
A simpler technique for testing public drinking water samples for the presence of the radioactive element radium can dramatically reduce the amount of time required to conduct the sampling required by federal regulations. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved use of the new testing method.
The technique -- developed ...
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