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CDC: Water at Marine base linked to birth defects
2013-12-07 17:20:45| Biotech - Topix.net
A long-awaited study by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirms a link between tainted tap water at a U.S. Marine Corps base in North Carolina and increased risk of serious birth defects and childhood cancers.
New toxic hot spots linked to sewers
2013-11-14 21:10:36| Semiconductors - Topix.net
Environmental Protection Agency officials told residents Tuesday that the only plausible explanation so far for the mysterious "hot spots" of sky-high levels of toxics under Evandale Avenue is a leaking sewer line or storm drain -- potentially placing the blame on semiconductor manufacturers once located on Whisman Road.
Precipitation Changes Linked To Global Warming
2013-11-12 13:17:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: According to Eliza Doolittle from My Fair Lady, the rain in Spain lies mainly on the plain. However, according to a new study from the scientists at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), the location and intensity of rain is changing around the globe, not only in Spain. The study, published in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals that observed changes in global (ocean and land) precipitation are directly affected by human activities and...
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Chemical ban linked to warming pause
2013-11-10 19:49:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
BBC: A new study suggests that the ban on ozone depleting chemicals may have also impacted the rise in global temperatures. CFC gases were responsible for a massive hole in the ozone layer but they also had a powerful greenhouse effect. The authors link a ban on their use to a "pause" or slowdown in temperature increases since the mid 1990s. The research is published in the journal Nature Geoscience. The subject of a hiatus or standstill in global temperatures rises since 1998 has been the...
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A Chinese Childs Lung Cancer Is Linked to Pollution
2013-11-08 22:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: An eight-year-old girl, living near a major road in the Jiangsu Province of Eastern China, has become the youngest person in China, and possibly in the world, to be diagnosed with lung cancer caused by pollution-the cause of her disease according to Chinese officials. And last month, the World Health Organization classified air pollution as a major human carcinogen. We talked with C. Arden Pope, economics professor at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah. His research into the effects of air...
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