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Colorado Wildfire Study shows actions can change outcomes.

2015-11-13 14:31:07| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

NIST's study of Colorado's devastating 2012 Waldo Canyon wildfire demonstrates that prompt and effective action can significantly change outcome of fires that occur in areas where residential communities and undeveloped wildlands meet. Study found that because Waldo firefighters tailored their response to specific WUI conditions, 75% of their attempts to extinguish ignited structures were successful and 79% of their efforts at fire containment were successful in preventing rampant fire spread.

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Study shows only 4 percent of the ocean is protected

2015-10-26 11:00:00| LifeSciencesWorld

[NEWS] Despite global efforts to increase the area of the ocean that is protected, only four per cent of it lies within marine protected areas (MPAs), according to a University of British Columbia study. UBC Institute for Ocean and Fisheries researchers found that major swaths of the ocean must still be protected to reach even the most basic global targets. In 2010, representatives from nearly 200 countries met in Nagoya, Japan, and adopted the United Nations' Aic…

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Clinical Study Shows Omega Q Plus Resveratrol Significantly Increases Coenzyme Q10 Blood Levels

2015-10-12 15:14:16| Appliances - Topix.net

Healthy Directions, a direct-to-consumer nutritional supplement and personal care company and wholly-owned subsidiary of Helen of Troy Limited , today released results from a clinical study on its industry-leading heart health supplement, Omega Q PlusA Resveratrol. The open label absorption study, conducted by KGK Synergize , was run over a four-week period in mid-2015 on 50 individuals.

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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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