What are we doing to answer the big questions: Are
chemicals in the environment increasing breast cancer, reproductive diseases and neurodevelopmental / behavioral problems?
Not exact matches
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.