Every year, 13,000 people in the UK die a premature death due to emissions from cars, trucks, planes and power plants, according to a MIT study published in this month’s issue of Environmental Science and Technology. MIT’s Steven Barrett and Steve Yim…
In low-income countries, one way to make drinking water safer is to expose it to sunlight, but now scientists at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, suggest adding lime juice can make the meth…
One of the first large-scale genomic studies conducted in a developing country has discovered genetic variants that elevate the risk for skin lesions in people chronically exposed to arsenic. Genetic changes found near the enzyme for metabolizing the c…
PLoS Genetics reports that a large-scale genomic study in Bangladesh has found genetic variants that control arsenic metabolism and increase the risk of skin lesions in people chronically exposed to arsenic. The genetic variants that were found near th…
Two studies published in the Archives of Internal Medicine on Monday suggest that air pollution at levels experienced by most Americans or considered safe by the Environmental Protection Agency is linked to higher risk of cognitive decline and stroke…
Researchers at the University of Oviedo (Spain) have come up with a way of tagging gunpowder which allows its illegal use to be detected even after it has been detonated. Based on the addition of isotopes, the technique can also be used to track and di…
The world population is estimated to be seven billion and all these mouths need feeding. With fears about overfishing and the sustainability of fish stocks in our seas fish farming is becoming big business. As with all farming there are issues about ma…
Scientists have uncovered a lot about the Earth’s greatest extinction event that took place 250 million years ago when rapid climate change wiped out nearly all marine species and a majority of those on land. Now, they have discovered a new culprit lik…
The incidence of type 2 diabetes and hypertension increases with cumulative levels of exposure to nitrogen oxides, according to a new study led by researchers from the Slone Epidemiology Center (SEC) at Boston University. The study, which appears onlin…
Some vacuum cleaners – those basic tools for maintaining a clean indoor environment in homes and offices – actually contribute to indoor air pollution by releasing into the air bacteria and dust that can spread infections and trigger allergies, researc…
