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 Stories About: Czech Republic
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Let No Good Seed Go Unpunished
Exposure to heavily polluted air can damage sperm DNA |
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28 Sep 2005 |
Daily Grist |
| Let No Good Seed Go Unpunished Exposure to heavily polluted air can damage sperm DNA Turns out air pollution can make a man into a eunuch. Research published this month in the journal Human Reproduction found that the sperm quality of 35 men in Teplice, Czech Republic, diminished significantly in the winter when more fossil fuels were burned and the area's air pollution reached or exce ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, Czech Republic, news, pollution and waste, population (all these topics) |
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Unable Was I Ere I Smelled Elbe
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03 Jul 2003 |
Daily Grist |
| Unable Was I Ere I Smelled Elbe For residents of the town of Libis in the Czech Republic, last year's terrible floods are more than a bad memory: They are an on-going nightmare. Libis is located not far from the Spolana chemical plant in central Bohemia, which leaked more than 1,100 pounds of toxics into the Elbe River when floodwaters inundated the plant's facilities. Now, the state vete ... |
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| Topics: Czech Republic, pollution and waste, rivers and watersheds, toxics (all these topics) |
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Czech It Out
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27 Aug 2002 |
Daily Grist |
| Czech It Out A "mini-Chernobyl" -- that's how a Czech investigating commission has described the potential threat posed by a chemical plant just north of Prague that was damaged in last week's flooding in Central and Eastern Europe. The commission warned that the highly toxic chlorine released by the Spolana plant during the floods and again late last week could threaten &qu ... |
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| Topics: Czech Republic, European Union, health, rivers and watersheds, toxics (all these topics) |
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Brussels Sprouting
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26 Nov 2001 |
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| Brussels Sprouting Environmental negotiations with 10 Eastern European countries hoping to join the European Union by 2004 will near completion by the end of the year, E.U. officials announced Thursday. Environmental protection is considered one of the biggest obstacles facing Eastern European nations interested in joining the E.U.; for t ... |
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| Topics: Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, European Union, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia (all these topics) |
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Czech Your Nukes at the Door
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17 Jul 2001 |
Daily Grist |
| Czech Your Nukes at the Door Germany has asked the Czech Republic to shut down the Temelin nuclear power plant near the borders of Germany and Austria. Austria became nuke-free in 1978, and German utilities agreed last month to close their 19 nuclear plants within 20 years. The Temelin plant, which began operating last fall, has provoked major protests from local enviros, as well a ... |
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| Topics: Austria, Czech Republic, energy, European Union, Germany, nuclear power (all these topics) |
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