pollutants 1 4

Tag: "pollutants" at medical news

Male Child Birth Dropping in US and Japan

...al exposure to endocrine- disrupting environmental pollutants may impact the SRY gene – a gene on the Y chromosome that determines the sex of a fertilized egg. Other environmental factors that also may affect the viability of a male fetus include the parents’ weight, nutrition and the use of alcohol and drug...

Campaign for Safe Drinking Water in India, Nepal

...here are certain areas which have a high amount of pollutants in the water. Hence we, in association with Coca Cola, decided to implement this project there, besides Madhya Pradesh with similar problems," Singh said in a press meet here. Meanwhile, the project in Nepal would aim at improving water management ...

Clearing the Air for 2008 Beijing Olympics

...ills restrict venting of pollution. Thus, regional pollutants and ozone build up over several days until dispersed by wind or removed by rain. Typical industrial, coal-burning cities within several hundred kilometers of Beijing add to the local pollution.' The United States is putting its best foot forward al...

No Laptop Please for Children

...much more sensitive than adults to dangers such as pollutants like lead and UV radiation. "So if there should be a problem with mobiles, then it may be a bigger problem for children. "Since we advise that children should be discouraged from using mobile phones, we should also discourage children from plac...

West Wants Developing Countries to Cut Down on Greenhouse Gas Emissions

...cut emissions of an important class of atmospheric pollutants by up to 40 percent in its capital Beijing, ahead ...uced when heat and sunlight come into contact with pollutants from power plants, cars, refineries and other sources. The group also studied particle pollution lev...

Indoor Air Pollution Biggest Heath Threat

... who are mainly affected by his. Exposure to the pollutants lead many kinds of diseases like pneumonia in children and chronic respiratory problems in adults Tobacco smoke is a major pollutant. Passive smoking causes burning eyes, nose, and throat irritation, bronchitis, severe asthma, decrease in lung functi...

US Climate Plan Must Not Substitute UN Treaties: China

...untry does not include carbon dioxide in its major pollutants reduction plan, but energy saving will help reduce...ssion. China has set the target of cutting major pollutants including sulphur dioxide and chemical oxygen demand by 10 percent by 2010....

Researchers Find Ways to Recycle Old Tyres into New

...ll, a process that releases heavy metals and other pollutants and risks starting dirty, long-burning fires. Now, David Isaac and colleagues at Swansea University, UK, have shown that spinning ground-up tyres, called rubber 'crumb', inside a chamber filled with ionised oxygen gas plasma makes the crumbs adhesi...

Olive Stones to Depollute Industrial Sewage Water

...ts are obtained during this process: water free of pollutants and the olive stones with the retained metal. This metal can be used later. The olive stones can also be used as biomass to obtain energy, as they are agricultural residues. The research carried out in the University of Granada means a step forward...

Indoor Smoking Bans Creating Unhealthy Outdoor Second-hand Smoke Zones

...azard of its own, as there has been an increase of pollutants from it. The study was conducted by a team of r... passed by. Researchers found that a rise in the pollutants was associated with an increase in the number of smokers, and not with motor vehicle traffic. "Th...

Scientists Equip Bacteria With Custom Chemo-Navigational System

...se bacteria to clean up oil spills or remove other pollutants from soil, water and wastewater. 'This new ability to equip motile bacteria with a precise and tunable chemo-navigation system will greatly enhance the impressive arsenal of natural and engineered cell behaviors,' says Dr. Gallivan....

Trade Center Collapse Caused Lung Ailments in Rescuers

...ts in the rescuers, due to inhalation of dust and pollutants during the rescue operation. The rescuers seem to be suffering a rare type of lung condition which showed up a year after the catastrophe. Medical specialists from the Fire Department and from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine found that 13 f...

Residues Go Merrily Down the Stream in Portland

... of the national effort to narrow down on the main pollutants and its source in the water systems. This exercise by scientists found residues of medicines and coffee sediments in the water bed. The list of compounds includes the likes of Prozac, Tagamet, Benadryl, and Micatin. Caffeine was also present in abu...

Indoor Air Pollution Biggest Health Threat

... who are mainly affected by his. Exposure to the pollutants lead many kinds of diseases like pneumonia in children and chronic respiratory problems in adults Tobacco smoke is a major pollutant. Passive smoking causes burning eyes, nose, and throat irritation, bronchitis, severe asthma, decrease in lung functi...

Air Pollution Affects Women More Than Men: Study

... Ozone is formed when sunlight acts on hydrocarbon pollutants spewed out into the air by vehicles and such indus... The latest study is the first to suggest that air pollutants have a significantly higher negative effect on females, compared to males. However, scientists have ...

Fine Particulate Matter from Traffic may Reduce Unborn Babies Birth Weight

... the concentrations of traffic-related atmospheric pollutants during pregnancy, including fine particulate matte...s the fluctuations in the concentration of the air pollutants over time during the pregnancies. Using a detailed questionnaire, the study authors could unravel ...

Insilico Studies on Chlorine Eating Bacteria

Certain bacteria that break down pollutants do their job and then to make them more effective ...others. Finding which genes are at work with which pollutants might lead to understanding how to remediate other kinds of pollutants, such as PCBs, dioxins, chlor...

Air Pollution in India Causes 527,700 Deaths a Year

...the United States, premature deaths from toxic air pollutants are estimated at 41,200 annually. Krzyzanowski ...s to reduce deaths from pollution. Damaging air pollutants include sulphur dioxide, particulate matter-a mixture of extremely small particles and water droplet...

Great Lakes Fish in Canada Heavily Polluted

...year. About five million kilograms of industrial pollutants are being released directly into the lakes, according to the report. Although fish are a food source high in protein and many health experts recommend regular consumption of them, the report said it did not want to discourage people from eating fis...

1 2 3 4