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Australia Battles Oil Slick on Yarra River

A 8 km long oil slick has contaminated Melbourne's Yarra River, po... of the water. He estimated about 100 litres of oil had leaked into the Yarra. The slick stretches along a section of the river that flows through Ya...

West Wants Developing Countries to Cut Down on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

...rophic consequences unless man stops burning coal, oil and other fossil fuels that produce greenhouse gases. Even as Ierland was taking it out on the unreasonable and obstructionist developing countries, China, generally blamed as the second largest emitter of greenhouse gases, seems to have demonstrat...

Simple Changes in Diet Could Improve Sex Life of Women

...increase testosterone and eat libido foods. Fish oil has a chemical - dopamine - that could bring in a feel-good factor. The chemical is associated with the emotions of anticipation and desire. Boosting dopamine levels in the brain has shown to be incredibly successful at treating sexual dysfunction...

Global Warming 55 Million Years Ago Too, Thanks to Fossil Fuels

...f a sort. The fuels weren’t necessarily coal or oil and they weren’t, of course, being burned in engines at the end of the Paleocene epoch. Instead, it was carbon-rich sediments that were baked in place in the ground by the intrusion of a lot of molten rock and an awful lot of heat into the landmass t...

Norwegian Glacier Shrinks and Marine Life Poisoned as the Globe Warms

...r as the number of species affected, other than an oil spill," Holcomb said Thursday. Domoic acid is produced by microscopic algae. Birds and sea mammals ingest the acid by eating fish and shellfish who dine on the algae. "In five years of study I have not seen a bloom this large at this particular t...

World’s First ‘green’ Skyscraper to Be Built in Duai

...i has in recent years diversified its economy from oil export to service and tourism, reflected by huge building projects that include the Jumeirah Palm, the world's largest man-made island and super skyscrapers like the Emirates Towers. Source-IANS/B...

Cancer Patients are at High Risk for Potential Drug Interactions

...risk industries, such as aviation and the offshore oil industry, many errors result from poor coordination and communication, and in these areas, strategies to improve team coordination and communication have led to reductions in incidents," the authors write. Source-Eurekalert ME/V...

Study Finds Dietary Fat Interacts With Genes

... fatty acids (MUFAs), found in foods such as olive oil and canola oil. People with the specific SNP who consumed 11 percent or more of total calories as MUFAs had a lower likelihood of obesity. “Basically, it appeared that the interaction of the specific SNP with MUFAs was the reason that fat intake did ...

Low-dose Omega-3 Linked to Lower Blood Pressure

...hecodinium cohnii (Martek Biosciences) or an olive oil placebo for three months. A four-month washout period separated the cross-over to the alternative intervention. Writing in the current issue of the Journal of Nutrition Theobald states that the daily DHA supplement increased DHA levels in red bloo...

Fatty Acid Supplements may Help Develop Child's Brain

...x, pumpkin and hemp. A systematic review of fish oil supplements in children published by the Food Standards Agency last year found there were too many inconsistencies in current evidence to come to any conclusion. Source-IANS...

Olive Leaf Juice Could Be Edible Oil Antioxidant

...s with BHT (200 ppm) on the stability of sunflower oil under heating conditions (180 degrees Celsius, fiv...ed that no significant effect on the colour of the oil occurred by addition of any level of olive polyphenols. The formation of peroxides in the oil as a r...

Tea Tree Oil-containing Beauty Products may Contribute to MRSA Increase

... salmonella in low dose concentrations of tea tree oil found that they became more resistant to antibioti...ing manufacturer to state the concentration of the oil in any of the products. According to the researchers, low dose tea tree oil found in beauty produc...

Little Convincing Evidence That Omega-3 Combats Depression

...t to antidepressants. The review found that fish oil supplements are generally well tolerated by people...mended doses, says the DTB. Furthermore, as fish oil supplements contain vitamin A, pregnant women should take only low doses of them, because of the pot...

Mid-day Naps Healthy for Your Heart

...which compromises fruits, vegetables, beans, olive oil and a little bit of red wine. The researchers analyzed data garnered from 23,000 Greek men and women between the ages 20 to 86 and over a period of 6 years. After adjusting for confounding factors such as obesity, smoking and diet, the protective...

Cancer Research May Help Biofuels

...lem, though: they currently cost more than gas. If oil stays below $55 a barrel, most alternative car fuel technologies stop making economic sense, according to Dan Arvizu, director of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Oil has bounced between $50 and $60 a barrel recently. As a result, most biofu...

Bait as Heavier Pockets for Doctors to Fort McMurray Hospitals

...urray, Alberta.// The region one of the booming oil sands areas is seeing an enormous rush of people. Around 73, 000 people are presently stationed in the region and many others comprise floating population. There is a severe shortage of doctors and nurses leading to burn out among the present ...

Vitamin D Deficiency Observed in Breast Feeding Mothers

...ne. Besides this, omega fatty acids and fish liver oil also provide vitamin D especially for infants. For healthy bones, it is essential that the children have the right amount of vitamin D in them. The aftermath of vitamin D deficiency in children could result in rickets later in life. Generally black...

Oleic-acid-rich Sunflowers Give Trans-fat Alternative - Study

...he news of another potential trans-fat replacement oil will be readily accepted in the US, public concern...o present a barrier to the introduction of such an oil in Europe, and particularly the UK. "Vegetable oils undergo extensive oxidative deterioration duri...

Remicade Therapy Effective in Treating Severe Psoriasis

...sis (thickening of skin), splinter hemorrhages and oil drop discoloration. In September 2006, REMICADE was approved in the U.S. for the treatment of adult patients with chronic severe (i.e. extensive and/or disabling) plaque psoriasis who are candidates for systemic therapy and when other systemic ther...

Garlic Hope in Infection Fight

...while the other half will receive a placebo (olive oil capsules) over a two-month period. At the beginning and end of the study, researchers will measure the levels of germs in patients' sputum samples, the patients' lung function and weight will be monitored and blood tests carried out to ensure the gar...

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(Date:12/2/2008)...is, or age-related hearing loss, accounts for 30 p...e lose their hearing as they get older but other p...may be in a study released online in the journal ...able online at http://hmg.oxfordjournals.org/papb...argest genome-wide association study for age-relat...
(Date:12/1/2008)...ead consumption advisories and uncertainty among c...esearchers at North Carolina State University have...egulators around the country predict which areas a... breakthrough that should help officials address p...for specific water bodies and fish species. , Th...
(Date:12/1/2008)...f Stanford University,s Woods Institute for the En...ldlife Fundhas been awarded a two-year, $1.97 mill...on to develop a software program for mapping and e...ate marine ecosystems. , Called Marine InVEST (I...eoffs), the proposed software will give policymake...
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