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India: How climate change worries have affected mental health of Sunderbans residents
2013-08-25 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
First Post: A number of environmental threats including that of climate change and man-animal conflict are driving villagers in Sunderbans islands towards madness and even suicide. Putting stress on the mental health of the villagers, the ill-effects of abject poverty and deprivation in the remote islands of the UNESCO World Heritage site are compounded by acute struggle against ecological hazards, experts say. Psychiatrist Arabinda N Chowdhury, who worked with the Institute of Psychiatry in Kolkata, studied...
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A look at findings of Pa. fracking health project
2013-08-25 11:42:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: An environmental project is providing some of the first specific numbers about people who may have been affected by the boom in natural gas drilling. Heres what the Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project has found in Washington County south of Pittsburgh and how experts and the industry are reacting to it: Air pollution seems to be more of a threat than water pollution. Only seven of 27 cases of people who believed they were hurt by nearby natural gas activities involved water pollution....
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Fracking health project puts numbers to debate, suggests air pollution may be bigger concern
2013-08-25 11:23:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A project examining the local health impacts from natural gas drilling is providing some of the first preliminary numbers about people who may be affected, and the results challenge the industry position that no one suffers but also suggest the problems may not be as widespread as some critics claim. The Southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project has been trying to help people who feel they've been sickened by natural gas drilling or processing for about 18 months in one county south...
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UPS drops health benefits for 15,000 spouses. An Obamacare bellwhether?
2013-08-24 16:14:24| Trucking - Topix.net
A United Parcel Service logo. UPS has told non-union employees their spouses will no longer be eligible for company-sponsored health insurance if they can get coverage through their own jobs, blaming the decision on President Barack Obama's healthcare reform law.
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UCSB Professor Joins Grant-Reviewing Body of National Institutes of Health
2013-08-24 03:12:38| Biotech - Topix.net
Thomas Weimbs, one of the world's leading experts on polycystic kidney disease and an associate professor in UC Santa Barbara's Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology and at the campus' Neuroscience Research Institute, has been appointed as a member of the Center for Scientific Review's Kidney Molecular Biology and ... (more)
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