Environmental Health
Feel the heat.
Behind the headlines, scientists warn that climate change is already hitting New Mexico.
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Scientists: Save the planet - have fewer kids.
As rising populations strain a warming planet, a British journal suggests having smaller families.
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Conquering the world's waste mountains.
Richer nations send about half their trash to landfills but the rate is expected to fall to 40 percent by 2030 as governments promote recycling, or incineration to generate power. In poorer nations, most trash collected goes to landfills.
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Waste not, want not.
It's a solution to water scarcity that is politically too hard to swallow. But is sewage recycling a safe and achievable alternative?
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Food riots as Indian floods destroy 250,000 homes.
Food riots erupted on Wednesday in eastern India, where more than two million people have been forced from their homes and about 250,000 houses destroyed in what officials say are the worst floods in 50 years.
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Don't put smog blame on Ottawa County power plant, company says.
EPA says power plants in Ottawa County are a big reason the air quality of Kent County violates new, stricter standards. So EPA ruled that Ottawa County was in violation even though its air is clean.
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California stop-smoking campaign saved $86 billion.
California's large-scale tobacco control campaign has saved $86 billion in health care costs in its first 15 years, U.S. researchers said on Monday.
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Skin cancers linked to risk.
People who have had a normally nonfatal form of skin cancer have double the risk of developing other types of cancers, US researchers said yesterday.
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Throat cancer increasing among white Americans.
The rate of throat cancer, or adenocarcinoma of the esophagus, has risen steadily among white Americans over the past 3 decades, according to a new report. Obesity is a major risk factor.
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Six areas identified in facing climate change.
Bangladesh is preparing to face the aftermath of climate change in 50 different sub-sectors under six thematic areas of agriculture, health, livelihoods, disasters management, environment and development.
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Will California ban polycarbonate plastic baby bottles?
This week, the California Legislature will have the last chance of the two-year session to vote on two potentially ground-breaking bills that would reduce toxic chemicals in consumer products.
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Panic in the lunch box.
First it was peanut butter on the endangered sandwich list. Then tinned albacore tuna. Now it's cold cuts, benched by the continuing listeriosis crisis.
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Inspectors failed to adopt more rigorous U.S. measures.
Canadian meat inspectors failed to learn crucial lessons from a deadly listeria outbreak a decade ago, experts on the bacterium suggested yesterday as the food-safety crisis spread further with three more deaths, including that of a woman in Saskatchewan, under investigation.
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Woman, 89, first listeriosis victim.
Last week, Frances Clark was making plans for the future. On Monday, the 89-year-old woman, described as vital and active by her family, fell victim to the potentially deadly strain of bacteria known as Listeriosis monocytogenes.
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MSHA 'belt air' rule too weak, UMW says.
Proposed federal rules on the use of conveyor belt tunnels to ventilate underground coal mines don't go nearly far enough, officials from the United Mine Workers union said Tuesday.
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3 years after Katrina, New Orleans' scars still raw.
Friday marks the third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina striking the Gulf Coast.
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Gene identified for deadly childhood cancer.
Fifteen years of genetic sleuthing has finally paid off: Researchers have nailed the gene that appears to cause an inherited form of neuroblastoma, a cancer of the nervous system that predominantly strikes children.
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Will California ban polycarbonate plastic baby bottles?
This week, the California Legislature will have the last chance of the two-year session to vote on two potentially ground-breaking bills that would reduce toxic chemicals in consumer products.
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Ad gives hot dogs a bad rap, critics say.
A new TV commercial shows kids eating hot dogs in a school cafeteria and one little boy's haunting lament: "Tthe doctor told me I have late-stage colon cancer."
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Moldy modular classrooms at Greenwich school called safe.
The modular classrooms that Hamilton Avenue School students in Connecticut evacuated after the discovery of mold last spring are now safe enough to inhabit, an environmental consultant told concerned parents Tuesday night.
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