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New study shows fracking poses increased risk of premature births

2015-10-10 10:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Examiner: Expectant mothers living near fracking sites have a higher risk of premature births. This is the conclusion of a new study published Sept. 30 in the journal Epidemiology. What they found was that mothers who lived in the vicinity of drilling and fracking sites were 40 percent more likely to give birth to premature babies. They were also 30 percent more likely to have high-risk pregnancies. Scientists at Johns Hopkins University, Brown University and the University of California, Berkeley and...

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