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A Breath of Somewhat Fresher Air Scientists Recommend Solutions to Coming Air-Quality Challenges		30 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
A Breath of Somewhat Fresher Air Scientists Recommend Solutions to Coming Air-Quality Challenges Though the past three decades have seen substantial progress, concerted action is needed to prevent air pollution from adversely affecting the environment and human health now and in the future, reported the National Research Council of the National Academies, a nonpartisan scientific panel charter ...
Topics: air pollution, climate, health, ozone, politics, population (all these topics)

Cow-a-Bungle How to Fix Our Food-Inspection System and Find Cleaner, Greener Beef		30 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: education, food and agriculture, health, ranching, Washington (all these topics)

Oversight Out of Mind Bush Relaxes Safety at Nuke Facilities		29 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Oversight Out of Mind Bush Relaxes Safety at Nuke Facilities The Bush administration has a new plan to waive some safety standards at federal nuclear facilities. The administration apparently didn't like being directed by Congress in 2002 to strictly enforce safety standards at the nuke sites -- though, in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, you might have thought such a ste ...
Topics: Department of Energy, health, nuclear power, politics, Tennessee (all these topics)

Semper Filthy Controversy Grows Over Contaminated Water on Marine Base		28 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Semper Filthy Controversy Grows Over Contaminated Water on Marine Base In what could be one of the largest contaminated water cases in U.S. history, hundreds of lawsuits have been filed against the U.S. military over dirty water at Camp Lejeune, a North Carolina Marine Corps base. In 1980, tests of drinking water wells at the base revealed high levels of toxic chemicals, but the Marine Corps did no ...
Topics: health, North Carolina, toxics, US EPA, water pollution (all these topics)

Fetal Detraction Air Quality One-Two Punch Hurts Fetuses		27 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Fetal Detraction Air Quality One-Two Punch Hurts Fetuses The combined effects of air pollution and secondhand smoke can hurt fetal development, says a new study conducted in New York City by the Columbia Center for Children's Environmental Health. While previous studies have addressed the effects of both factors in isolation, this study marks the first attempt to study the cumula ...
Topics: air pollution, food and agriculture, health, New York, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Enough to Make Your Lead Spin Rhode Island lawsuit pinpoints lead poisoning as an environmental, not medical, problem		22 Jan 2004	The Gist
In the spring of 2000, in Manchester, N.H., a two-year-old Sudanese girl named Sunday Abek, just three weeks removed from an Egyptian refugee camp, was treated at an emergency room for a low-grade fever and vomiting. A throat culture turned up positive for strep, and she was sent home with an antibiotic prescription. Three weeks later, as her vomiting worsened, Abek w ...
Topics: health, Rhode Island, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Enough to Make Your Lead Spin Lead Poisoning Is an Environmental, Not Medical, Problem		22 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: environmental justice, health, politics, pollution and waste, Rhode Island, toxics (all these topics)

The Big Disease-y New Controls Needed on Wildlife Trade to Prevent Disease, Scientists Say		16 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: Brazil, business, food and agriculture, globalization, health, India, wildlife (all these topics)

The Green Elephant in the Room Far Right's Environmental Commitment Weak; Whitman's Ampler		14 Jan 2004	Daily Grist

Topics: green living, health, politics, US EPA (all these topics)

Flu Dunnit Enviro Disruptions Will Cause More Animal Diseases to Jump to Humans		14 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Flu Dunnit Enviro Disruptions Will Cause More Animal Diseases to Jump to Humans In coming years, diseases -- primarily viruses -- passed from animals to human beings pose one of the principal threats to world health, warned a conference of scientists at the Royal Society in London yesterday. Environmental disruptions ranging from deforestation to population migration to global warming ...
Topics: climate, deforestation, health, population, United Kingdom, wildlife (all these topics)

I Am the Toxic Walrus Arctic Natives, Minding Own Business, Suffer From Our Pollutants		13 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
I Am the Toxic Walrus Arctic Natives, Minding Own Business, Suffer From Our Pollutants Toxic industrial chemicals, carried north by wind, ocean, and river currents, are polluting the traditional diet of native Arctic peoples in Greenland and Arctic Canada. The pollutants, including PCBs and up to 200 other hazardous compounds, are first consumed by zooplankton, then trav ...
Topics: Arctic, Canada, food and agriculture, health, oceans, pollution and waste, toxics (all these topics)

Endless Summer Climate Scientists Predict More Hot Summers for Europe		12 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Endless Summer Climate Scientists Predict More Hot Summers for Europe Thanks to global warming, summer heat waves like the one that killed close to 20,000 people in Europe in 2003 could recur up to once every two years by the end of the century. So claims a study conducted by a group of scientists from Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich and published in the lat ...
Topics: climate, European Union, food and agriculture, green living, health, wilderness (all these topics)

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Cow Demand Rises for Organic and Natural Beef		12 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Cow Demand Rises for Organic and Natural Beef What's bad news for most ranchers may be great news for growers and purveyors of organic and natural-fed beef. In the wake of the discovery of mad cow disease in the U.S., folks who still like to chomp on a nice, juicy steak are increasingly seeking out beef that's been raised the old-fashioned way. To earn the organi ...
Topics: California, food and agriculture, health, ranching, United States (all these topics)

Homeocidal Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Homeocidal Herbal Medicine Trade Threatens Thousands of Plant Species The booming worldwide market for herbal medicines threatens between 8 and 20 percent of the 50,000 known wild medicinal plant species with extinction, according to a forthcoming study by the World Wildlife Fund. Having risen by10 percent per ...
Topics: Asia, China, climate, European Union, globalization, green living, health, India, North America, population, wildlife, World Wildlife Fund (all these topics)

Just Stick to Tofu Farmed Salmon Contaminated With PCBs, Other Nasties		09 Jan 2004	Daily Grist
Just Stick to Tofu Farmed Salmon Contaminated With PCBs, Other Nasties Consumers, still struggling with the news that bovine spongiform encephalopathy-laden beef will make your brain melt and mercury-laden tuna will make your children stupid, were met today with more bad news: A new study in the journal Science claims that fish-farmed salmon contain enoug ...
Topics: European Union, fishing, green living, health, marine life, South America, toxics, United States (all these topics)

You're Under Cardiac Arrest Heart Disease, Not Respiratory Illness, Is Main Danger from Air Pollution		16 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
You're Under Cardiac Arrest Heart Disease, Not Respiratory Illness, Is Main Danger from Air Pollution Air pollution may actually be worse for your heart than for your lungs, according to new research published in the American Heart Association's journal Circulation. A 16-year study found that long-term exposure to particulate matter in polluted air is more likely to cause death from cardiovascular disease than from respiratory ailment ...
Topics: air pollution, health (all these topics)

Baby's Breath Exposure to Pesticides May Lead to Childhood Asthma		12 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Baby's Breath Exposure to Pesticides May Lead to Childhood Asthma Yet another reason to keep pesticides out of the house: Children exposed to household bug-killing chemicals during the first year of life may be more than twice as likely to develop asthma as those not exposed, according to new research by scientists at the University of Southern California. Kids' asthma risk is also increased by exposure to wood smoke, cockroache ...
Topics: health, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Death Warmed Over Climate Change Tied to 150,000 Deaths a Year, WHO Says		12 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Death Warmed Over Climate Change Tied to 150,000 Deaths a Year, WHO Says How's this for classic gloom and doom: Climate change led to 150,000 premature deaths in 2000, and the annual number of such deaths could double in 30 years if current warming trends are not reversed, according to a new report by the World Health Organization. Global warming hits hardest in developing countries and tropical areas, where risi ...
Topics: climate, health, World Health Organization (all these topics)

No Joshin': Keep Washin' On washing produce	Umbra Fisk	11 Dec 2003	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, Does one really need to wash produce off the shelf or out of the bag? I've been eating vegetables as they are for years. Does it really do any good to wash them? If they are contaminated internally, then washing the outside won't help, will it? Jane Steubenville, Ohio Dearest Jane, Please wash your veggies. Internal contamination from pesticides, herbicides, waxes, and the wages of sin won't be washed away, but so ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food and agriculture, health, local food, toxics (all these topics)

True Grime Stories Rochester Investigates Link Between Lead and Crime		11 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
True Grime Stories Rochester Investigates Link Between Lead and Crime If you read yesterday's review of Six Modern Plagues in Grist, you know that environmental problems can be linked to health issues. But can they be linked to crime? That's what officials in Rochester, N.Y., are trying to determine by investigating the relationship between violent behavior and lead poisoning, which can cause neurological damage and p ...
Topics: health, New York, pollution and waste (all these topics)

Wes Is More Clark Unveils Environmental Platform		10 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Wes Is More Clark Unveils Environmental Platform Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean grabbed the campaign spotlight this week by earning the endorsement of former Vice President Al Gore. Meanwhile, off in the shadows, fellow Democratic presidential contender retired Gen. Wesley Clark presented his environmental platform yesterday. Perhaps it befits Clark's military background that he described that platform not in terms of natural resources it ...
Topics: health, politics (all these topics)

Disease on Down the Road Mark Jerome Walters' Six Modern Plagues shows how environmental damage leads to disease	Michelle Nijhuis	10 Dec 2003	Arts and Minds
Six Modern Plagues By Mark Jerome Walters Island Press, 206 pages, 2003 It's easy to look at disease outbreaks as acts of God, or fate, or chance. After all, diseases are often so capricious, so stubbornly beyond our full control, that it can seem as if we humans have little to do with them -- beyond suffering the consequences, that is. But in many ca ...
Topics: green living, health (all these topics)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Nevada Appeals to Federal Court to Stymie Nuke Waste Site		09 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Nevada Appeals to Federal Court to Stymie Nuke Waste Site Nevada is digging in its heels and promising a bitter fight to keep the nation's high-level nuclear waste from being shipped to an underground storage facility at Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas. Last year, President Bush signed a bill designating the site as a permanent nuclear-waste repository, but next month ...
Topics: health, Nevada, nuclear power, politics (all these topics)

Give Us This Day Our Daily Frankenbread Next GM Product to Hit Market Could Be Your Daily Bread		05 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Give Us This Day Our Daily Frankenbread Next GM Product to Hit Market Could Be Your Daily Bread The stakes in the debate over genetically modified (GM) food are about to jump significantly, as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration prepares to complete a safety and nutrition review of wheat that has been genetically altered by biotech giant Monsanto. To date, GM crops have largely been used as animal feed and proc ...
Topics: Food and Drug Administration, GMOs, health (all these topics)

Do Good Step Up to Ensure You Get Clean Air to Breathe		04 Dec 2003	Daily Grist
Do Good Step Up to Ensure You Get Clean Air to Breathe If someone were polluting the air in your favorite local park with arsenic, lead, and DDT, would you be ticked off? What about the air in your favorite local restaurant? You probably think you understand the hazards of secondhand cigarette smoke, but you might not know that it contains a toxic soup of more than 4,000 chemicals, including a ...
Topics: air pollution, Department of Health and Human Services, health (all these topics)

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