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What's Behind Surging Ozone Pollution in Texas? Study to Weigh Role of Fracking in Health Hazard
2013-10-23 14:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
InsideClimate: When ozone pollution skyrocketed in the tiny town of Boulder, Wyo., in 2008, it was relatively easy to identify the culprit as oil and gas drilling, the only major industry in the rural area. Today, a similar situation in San Antonio, Texas, will be more difficult to resolve. The city has violated federal ozone standards dozens of times since 2008, but with so much industrial activity in and around the cityincluding the Eagle Ford shale drilling boom south of San Antoniolocal officials are waiting...
Applications Invited for Pig Health Symposium Bursaries
2013-10-23 02:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
ITALY - The European College of Porcine Health Management is offering young person's bursaries to six authors of accepted abstracts (oral papers or posters) presented at the European Symposium of Porcine Health Management (ESPHM) in 2014.
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XPRIZE dives into Earth's final frontier our oceans and their future health
2013-10-22 06:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The XPRIZE Foundation, once known for competitions for spaceflight innovation, has turned its focus to the seas, launching a series of new prizes for ocean health over the next seven years. The Ocean Initiative represents the biggest XPRIZE commitment to date, reinforcing earlier competitions for devices to monitor ocean acidification and clean up oil spills. "The oceans are in trouble. They have been under attack for the last half century, and we do feel we are at a tipping point right now,"...
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Agrochemicals Linked to Health Problems in Argentina
2013-10-21 19:28:50| Chemicals - Topix.net
Argentine farmworker Fabian Tomasi was never trained to handle pesticides. His job was to keep the crop-dusters flying by filling their tanks as quickly as possible, although it often meant getting drenched in poison.
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Will Obamacare's Federal Health Exchange Cost 5 Times More Than Estimates?
2013-10-21 16:20:28| Beverages - Topix.net
There's really no way to sugarcoat it -- it's been a very unimpressive and largely ugly start to the enrollment in Obamacare.
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