Sentences with phrase «even small chemical»

Big - Picture Study Of Fracking Operations Suggests Even Small Chemical Exposures Pose Risks.

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It's a pie - in - the sky vision for a small company, but even a fraction of that would be a revolution in an industry that has been reliant on petroleum - based chemicals for half a century.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

«Even when it's not organic, small farms tend to be less aggressive than large factory farms about dousing their wares with chemicals.»

Super sensitive skin of our babies can react to even the smallest harmful chemical that your chosen baby wipe might has.

Studies of laboratory animals have shown that even small doses of these chemicals impair attention, learning, memory, and behavior.

A number of state legislators once eager to hold hearings into drinking water contamination by a cancer - causing chemical in the small town of Hoosick Falls now seem loathe to even discuss the matter.

«Even if only a small percentage reaches the ground, this could be problematic because gasoline contains harmful chemicals including benzene, a known human carcinogen,» Hilpert says.

Yes, the threat of war between major powers has declined, he notes, but the ability of small groups or even individuals to wreak enormous havoc — with nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons, not to mention jumbo jets — has grown.

These chemicals can be tens of thousands of times more potent than carbon dioxide in trapping heat, so even small amounts leaking into the atmosphere could have an outsized impact on the climate.

«In our work, we showed for the first time ever that even small changes in the physico - chemical process conditions have a significant influence on the build - up and properties of the layer,» says Claudia M. Palumbiny.

The system uses a novel method, relying on an electrochemical process to selectively remove organic contaminants such as pesticides, chemical waste products, and pharmaceuticals, even when these are present in small yet dangerous concentrations.

It has established that even small doses of chemicals can have significant negative effects if they are present together.

«Even relatively small changes in the temperature and water content of the magma can drastically alter the chemical and physical properties of the unerupted magma,» explained lead author Dr. Mike Cassidy from the Institute of Geosciences at Mainz University.

Granted we don't have similar human studies, but there is growing consensus that even small doses of pesticides and other chemicals can be harmful to humans.

Today, a great deal of research exists and indicates that even in doses as small as parts per billion these chemicals have the ability to alter our physiology.

Even a small amount of these processed chocolate chip cookie cakes make many people feel sick due to the additives, chemicals and GMOs present.

Hydrogenated fats are, by definition, a poison, as even in a small amount they will induce a chemical reaction that may cause damage to structure or disturbance of function, producing symptomatology, illness, or death.

That's why chemicals like dioxin, even in small amounts, are extremely dangerous.

Even the ones with «natural» on the label usually contain a small amount of the advertised ingredient in a sludge of questionable chemicals and preservatives.

I've found that even if they aren't USDA certified organic (not always cost effective for small farms), they don't tend to use chemicals or pesticides as much.

Because of those chemicals, the smoke from even a smoldering mattress is toxic and deadly even in small amounts.

Even if the burn seems small, some chemicals can cause damage to the deep tissues and affect the internal organs.

Even though your carpet is new, it could hold dust, small fibers and chemicals that your pup will be sensitive to.

Once the nerve endings that are present in the stomach and mostly in the proximal small intestine are irritated by any agent, like toxins, acids, microbes, chemicals, poisons or even rapid and strong digestive activity, this results into a triggering note for the vomit center in brain or for CTZ.

Even if the pet swallows small pieces of the furniture, the products normally don't contain harmful dyes or chemicals that could make them sick.

First, even small users of chemicals will have big tools to assess the hazards.

If we had directed even a third of that pot of money (the typical markup on green cleaning products) toward lobbying our governments to ban the toxic chemicals we're so afraid of, we might have made a lot more progress by now... But there are small switches in our mentality we can take to make a difference.

However even without any modulating biological effects, the graph suggests a degree of chemical homeostasis where increasing CO2 concentrations have an increasingly smaller effect on ocean pH. For example when CO2 concentrations increase from 0 to 100 ppm, pH rapidly drops from over 11.0 to 8.7.

In explaining that «[m] any thoughtful and decent people are conflicted about, or strongly oppose, this research,» President Obama was acknowledging that, even in its earliest stages, the small group of cells that constitute an embryo are in some way different from a chemical reagent to be sold in a catalog or an industrially synthesized molecule to be integrated into a widget.

It is a vision of: urbanization, as people in cities have more opportunities and use resources more efficiently; intensified food production to increase yields and leave more room for nature; the expanded use of nuclear energy, which has zero emissions and the smallest land footprint of any energy source; greater development of GMOs to reduce chemical use and increase yields; animal - free meat; «re-wilding» former farm and pasture lands with wolves, buffalo, mountain lions, and even formerly extinct species — all the while supporting universal human dignity.

This vision, as outlined in An Ecomodernist Manifesto, is one of urbanization; intensified food production to increase yields and leave more room for nature; the expanded use of nuclear energy, which has zero emissions and the smallest land footprint of any energy source; greater development of GMOs to reduce chemical use and increase yields; animal - free meat; and «rewilding» former farm and pasture lands with wolves, buffalo, mountain lions, and even formerly extinct species.

«I might say, parenthetically, I believe there are national security and common security aspects to the whole globalization challenge that I really don't have time to go into today, so I'll just steer off the text and say what I think briefly, which is that as we open borders and we increase the freedom of movement of people, information and ideas, this open society becomes more vulnerable to cross-national, multinational, organized forces of destruction: terrorists; weapons of mass destruction; the marriage of technology in these weapons, small - scale chemical and biological and maybe even nuclear weapons; narco traffickers and organized criminals, and increasingly, all these people sort of working together in lines that are quite blurred.

Also, the amount of energy converted from solar to chemical energy will be a small effect compared to the reduction in greenhouse warming resulting from taking CO2 out of the atmosphere (much like burning coal doesn't release much energy compared to the increase in greenhouse effect warming), so you don't even have the right negative feedback.