Sentences with phrase «between chemicals in the environment»

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New research has turned up evidence of a link between endocrine - disrupting chemicals in the environment and poor IVF outcomes.

Some chemical issues that Geoff?s team deals with have a high - profile, like endocrine - disrupting substances; many chemicals, both natural and man - made, are known to adversely effect the hormone systems of humans and animals, and there is growing concern about the link between the presence of these substances in their environment and their harm to wildlife.

The study, performed in Garfield County, Colo., between July 2010 and October 2011, was done by researchers at The Endocrine Disruption Exchange, a non-profit organization that examines the impact of low - level exposure to chemicals on the environment and human health.

Since the chemicals were discovered, researchers have found a relationship between PCB concentrations in blood and decreased cognitive and thyroid function, and elevated risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension among the Mohawk Nation, said David Carpenter, director of the Institute for Health and the Environment at the University at Albany.

But scientists have long suspected a link between hormone - disrupting chemicals in the environment and gynecological diseases.

At the North American branch of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry's 31st annual meeting in Portland, Oregon, on 8 November, environmental chemists warned that complex interactions between chemistry and climate change might be making chemicals more toxic and the environment more susceptible to damage.

Researchers at the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme in Samoa report that fuel and toxic chemicals are still leaking from the more than 1,000 military and cargo vessels from Japan and the United States that sank in this region between 1941 and 1945.

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Between all the medications, refined foods, additives, alcohol, pesticides and other chemicals we are exposed to in the environment, the ability of our systems to adapt and detoxify can become challenged.

Specific safety concerns include: (1) Lithium batteries pose both a chemical and electrical hazard — under certain conditions they can overheat and ignite and, once ignited, can be especially difficult to extinguish; (2) the potential for propagation of thermal runaway between cells or batteries in a package and between adjacent packages of batteries; (3) the potential for uncontrolled lithium battery fires to overwhelm the capability of existing aircraft cargo fire protection systems, leading to a catastrophic failure of the airframe; and (4) the potential for venting of combustible gases from lithium ion cells in thermal runaway, which could collect in an enclosed environment and cause an explosion even in the presence of a suppression agent.

A joint study between Environment Canada and scientists at Queen's University discovered elevated levels of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons — or PAHs, the chemical produced when petroleum is burned — in bodies of water as far as 90 kilometres away from Fort McMurray.