Sentences with phrase «as toxic waste sites»

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When grown in TNT - laden areas, which include old mines, waste sites, and military conflict zones, plants absorb and remove the toxic chemicals from the soil through their roots in a process known as remediation.

And they put their new genes to work, degrading toxic chemicals, such as chlorobenzene, that are commonly found at nuclear waste sites.

In addition, the site of improperly performed dental extractions can act as a reservoir for infection, releasing toxic waste and pathogens via the lymphatic system into the rest of the body.

Using new population - level data that follows cohorts of children born in the state of Florida between 1994 and 2002, this paper examines the short and long - term effects of prenatal exposure to environmental toxicants on children living within two miles of a Superfund site, toxic waste sites identified by the Environmental Protection Agency as being particularly severe.

Staff doubles it as metaphor for the use of certain chemicals in hormone therapy, while vistas of desolate freeways and toxic waste sites flicker in and out; Soshoux appears as an infrared inversion, a swift comment on technology's mercilessness in transforming human beings into anonymous data points.

As leaked data from extramarital affair web site Ashley Madison continues to bubble up like toxic waste, the company is firing off copyright takedown notices to stop file sharing and social networking sites like Twitter from propagating customer and internal information.