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• Media Examines Food Summit Reaction, Malnutrition In Liberia, Yemen

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  VOA News reports on reactions from last weeks U.N. World Summit on Food Security in Rome: "The delegates in Rome promised to continue efforts to reduce by half the number of hungry people by two thousand fifteen. But critics pointed out that world leaders made a similar promise more than ten years ago.
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• PARTICULATE MATTER NAAQS REVIEW: INTEGRATED SCIENCE ASSESSMENT

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 156
  Particulate matter (PM) is a complex mixture of extremely small particles and liquid droplets. PM is one of six common air pollutants for which EPA has issued air quality criteria and established national ambient air quality standards (NAAQS). The integrated science assessment (ISA) is one of the four major elements ...
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• Replacing Ugly Construction Site Barriers with Beautiful Living Green Walls

  
  The Far Edge — Authority: 144
  Normally at a big construction site, an ugly OSB wall plastered with posters provides a barrier between the site and the rest of the city. Typically thought of as eyesores, these walls are anything but pleasing to the eye. But what if they could be transformed into living urban spaces full of plants and systems that ...
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• Could denying bedroom privileges save the planet?

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 136
  There will be a record number of side events at the United Nations-sponsored climate talks in Copenhagen next month, but one woman’s one-woman show could give the delegates, most of whom will be men, the incentive they really need to agree a new global warming treaty. In “ The Boycott “, Kathryn Blume plays ...
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• Report: Barnett Shale air tests find benzene

  
  TEXAS ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENT — Authority: 472
  Air tests around the Barnett Shale natural gas field continue to return troubling results. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality found that some natural gas sites emit benzene. In August and October, the commission monitored well sites with infrared cameras and found ...
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• Replacing Ugly Construction Site Barriers with Beautiful Living Green Walls

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 741
  Normally at a big construction site, an ugly OSB wall plastered with posters provides a barrier between the site and the rest of the city. Typically thought of as eyesores, these walls are anything but pleasing to the eye. But what if they could be transformed into living urban spaces full of plants and systems that ...
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• Quarterly SO2 Emissions Tracking

  
  RFF Library Blog — Authority: 135
  US EPA http://www.epa.gov/airmarkets/quarterlytracking.html [Press release] New interactive tracking tools are now available on EPA’s Web site to help the public follow nation-wide changes in sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) emissions from coal-fired power plants. Using interactive charts and Google Earth satellite maps, ...
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• Fuel Oil And Traffic Pollution May Increase Risk Of Respiratory Problems In Inner-City Children

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  Exposure shortly after birth to ambient metals from fuel oil combustion and particles from diesel emissions is associated with respiratory symptoms in young inner-city children, according to a new study by researchers at the Columbia Center for Childrens Environmental Health (CCCEH) at Columbia Universitys Mailman ...
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• Origin Agritech Announces Final Approval Of Worlds First Genetically Modified Phytase Corn

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  Origin Agritech Limited (NASDAQ GS: SEED) ("Origin"), a leading technology-focused supplier of crop seeds and agri-biotech research in China, announced it has received the Bio-safety Certificate from the Ministry of Agriculture as a final approval for commercial approval of the worlds first genetically modified ...
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• The Economist Examines Attention To Worlds Food Supply

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  In an article that examines the recent history of the worlds food supply and related policy, The Economist looks at the global effort to boost food security. The publication writes, "Agriculture and food security have become the core of the international agenda, as the G8 called it. … [Pres.
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• From Toxic Dust And Algae To Ill Winds From Africa

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  Toxic dust: Toxins in coal-tar-based sealcoats in parking lots may be the culprit in contaminated house dust, according to a USGS study. PAHs - or polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons - are large molecules found in oil, coal and tar deposits, and can have toxic effects. Its long been known that PAHs are often found in ...
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• Farming Out The Safety Message To Students, Scotland

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  Farm safety is firmly on the curriculum for the new intake of students at the Scottish Agricultural College, with practical advice and guidance from the Health and Safety Executive.
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• EPA Tangles With Texas in Battle Over Air Quality

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 173
  A more assertive Environmental Protection Agency is demanding that Texas tighten its pollution rules, drawing the ire of companies and some of the states political leaders. At the heart of the dispute is an EPA threat to void some of the states air-quality regulations, which it says break federal law. The agency also ...
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• The Amaizing Corn Genome

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  In recent years, scientists have decoded the DNA of humans and a menagerie of creatures but none with genes as complex as a stalk of corn, the latest genome to be unraveled. A team of scientists led by The Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis published the completed corn genome in ...
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• Rich Ore Deposits Linked to Ancient Atmosphere

  
  Impact Lab — Authority: 540
  Volcano eruption on Reunion Island in the Indian Ocean.Much of our planet’s mineral wealth was deposited billions of years ago when Earth’s chemical cycles were different from today’s. Using geochemical clues from rocks nearly 3 billion years old, a group of scientists including Andrey Bekker and Doug Rumble ...
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• India has best environment laws, but needs better governance: Ramesh

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 719
  New Delhi, Nov 20(ANI): Union Environment and Forest Minister Jairam Ramesh on Friday said that India needs better governance to support its progressive forest and environment laws. Addressing a function to release a report ‘Green India 2047′ prepared by Tata Energy and Resource Institute (TERI) in national ...
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• Peat — ‘the big elephant in the room’

  
  EarthNews — Authority: 433
  Greenwire : Indonesia’s degraded peatlands have made the country the world’s third-largest greenhouse gas emitter, right after China and the United States. When peat , formed over thousands of years from decomposed vegetation, dries and disintegrates, it leaks CO2 — and the stream fast becomes a ...
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• World Summit On Food Security Wraps Up

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  The U.N. World Summit on Food Security ended Wednesday in Rome with Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) head Jacques Diouf calling for the global community to shift the fight against global hunger from "words to action," Agence France-Press reports. Diouf said, "We must do this to have a more prosperous world, ...
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• For World Toilet Day, News Outlets Examine Poor Sanitation Conditions Around World

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  In light of World Toilet Day Thursday, several news outlets examine the impact of poor sanitation on health. Reuters examines the challenges of poor sanitation in Mumbai, India, "where more than half its 18 million residents live in slums and where the average ratio of people to toilets is 81:1.
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• American Nurses Association Backs New Report Describing Effects Of Coal Pollution On Health

  
  Health News from Medical News Today — Authority: 714
  The American Nurses Association (ANA) joined other health care groups to support the Physicians for Social Responsibilitys (PSR) newly-released report, "Coals Assault on Human Health." Registered nurses see the effects of coal-generated pollution on the health of newborns who have elevated mercury levels and on ...
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