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Canadians Urged to Renovate Houses to Check Radon Gas Radiation

..., said low levels of uranium are found in granitic rocks throughout B.C. Only in certain areas are these background levels sufficient to cause radon gas problems in homes. He said B.C. has never had a uranium mine, and not a lot of exploration activity. Canada is poised to lower the guideline for radon...

Sea Massage for French Wines

Perched on rocks on the Saint Malo bay in western France, a bunch of sea-freak winemakers and winetasters sniffed and spat their way through half a dozen bottles hauled out of the bottom of the sea. The Loire valley wines -- all Anjou Village de Brissac-Quince -- ha...

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

...oncentrations of argon-40 and argon-39 to date the rocks and found they were about the same age and fit well into the timing of the PETM, which has been identified independently from marine sediments. "The dating allows us to link the (PETM) to what we see as a massive surge of volcanic activity," Store...

Hunt for Sea Delicacy Taking a Toll in California

...ppel down cliffs, clamber over treacherously slick rocks and disappear into dark, choppy waters to pry moll...sed by powerful surf that has washed them over the rocks or swept them out to sea. Anthony Kan said in 20 years of abalone picking he has seen two people d...

Falls and Hip Fractures Are Not Inevitable

...gathering ancestors who had to walk and climb over rocks and roots during the day. Even when function is reduced or seemingly lost, with training it may be regained, as in “use it and it regenerates.” The following categories are key to relearning strength, coordination, and balance to prevent falls and...

Breast Milk: The Mother of All Milk for Infants

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world! Rightly so, for a mother is truly the one that moulds her child from the moment of birth. //Enabling the child with the best right from the word 'Go' should not be mere wishful-thinking, and in this age of information, the...

Irish Households Exposed To Lethal Radiation

...urring and originates from the decay of uranium in rocks and sols. It is devoid of color, odor or taste. Chief executive of the RPII, Dr Ann McGarry said that an estimate of 91,000 homes in Ireland has increased levels of Radon but only 3,900 have been identified. People are receiving radiation doses t...

Species Linking Fish And Land Animals Found

... the transition to life on land. "We knew that the rocks on Ellesmere Island offered a glimpse into the right time period and the right ancient environments to provide the potential for finding fossils documenting this important evolutionary transition," said Ted Daeschler of the Academy of Natural Science...

Poisonous Gas Caused Mass Extinction

...reated the Siberian Traps, a large area of igneous rocks around the city of Tura. New evidence for the v... comes from a unique set of molecules preserved in rocks from the Dolomite mountains in Italy. Dating from the time of the extinction, the molecules are the ...

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