Sentences with phrase «chemicals in the environment increasing»

What are we doing to answer the big questions: Are chemicals in the environment increasing breast cancer, reproductive diseases and neurodevelopmental / behavioral problems?

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Hormone changes due to induced abortion may indeed be related to breast cancer, but there are other known causes of hormone changes that we should worry about, including the widespread use of chemical contraceptives, fertility drugs that cause hormone surges, increased obesity and fat content in the diet that change the body's estrogen metabolism, and last but not least, chemical contaminants in the environment that mimic estrogen....
The CRTK provision in EPCRA helped increase awareness about the presence of chemicals in their communities and releases of these chemicals into the environment.
The environmental changes in the last 20 years have seen increases in the human environment of petro - chemicals — air transport - quadrupling of motor vehicles, insecticides and rises in background electro - magnetic - field, and so on.»
The researchers from QMUL's School of Biological and Chemical Sciences investigated whether these «sexually selected» animals might be better able to cope with changes in the environment such as increasing temperatures or acidity.
«The amount and diversity of pesticides, pharmaceuticals and other industrial chemicals that humans are releasing into the environment are increasing at rates that match or exceed recent increases in CO2 emissions, nutrient pollution from nitrogen fertilizers, and other drivers of global change,» Bernhardt said.
Complex surface attributes, such as its topography and chemical properties, are not explored here but are expected to influence cluster sizes in some natural environments by increasing the complexity of fluid flow patterns, inducing short - range cell relocation and modifying the long - range relocation mechanism.
Source: Lyman 2010 The reaction of the oceans to climate change are some of the most profound across the entire environment, including disruption of the ocean food chain through chemical changes caused by CO2, the ability of the sea to absorb CO2 being limited by temperature increases, (and the potential to expel sequestered CO2 back into the atmosphere as the water gets hotter), sea - level rise due to thermal expansion, and the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere.
Certainly, there is no blanket answer to this question, as each person will have different nutrient needs and deficiencies, but with the declining soil and food quality and the ever - increasing presence of chemicals that can block nutrient absorption in our environment, there are times when it truly isn't possible to get everything we need from food (though in a perfect world, this would be possible.)
It goes into great detail on explaining hormones, estrogen's role in the cancer process, how chemicals and toxins in our environment contribute to the increase of breast cancer, what role the liver plays in detoxifying our body and how we can support the liver.
Water quality: Waste water treatment does not remove the constantly increasing quantity and types of fragrance chemicals, many of which are persistent and accumulate in the environment.
With the increase in the number of chemicals introduced into our environment in the last fifty years, there has been a dramatic increase in incidences of many illnesses.
The increased pollution, toxins in the environment, pesticides in our food and chemicals in the water supply all have a detrimental effect on our health, and damage our kidneys the most because they're the ones that filter out all the toxins in our system.
Thus, we are wasting ever increasing amounts of money to control ever decreasing amounts of toxic chemicals in our environment — resources that could be better used elsewhere.
Source: Lyman 2010 The reaction of the oceans to climate change are some of the most profound across the entire environment, including disruption of the ocean food chain through chemical changes caused by CO2, the ability of the sea to absorb CO2 being limited by temperature increases, (and the potential to expel sequestered CO2 back into the atmosphere as the water gets hotter), sea - level rise due to thermal expansion, and the amount of water vapour in the atmosphere.
The case is an application for judicial review, attempting to strike down Ministry of the Environment action that allowed Suncor to increase production (and presumably emissions) from its refinery in Chemical Valley.
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