Our research underscores the importance of the Minamata Convention on Mercury, the first global treaty designed to protect
human health and the environment from this element's adverse effects.
The Montreal Protocol is a multilateral environmental agreement that is successfully preventing massive damage to
human health and the environment from excessive ultraviolet radiation from the sun by phasing out the production and consumption of substances that deplete the ozone layer.
Title XIV: Miscellaneous - Subtitle A: General Provisions -(Sec. 1401) Expresses the sense of Congress that federal agencies assessing risks to
human health and the environment from energy technology, production, transport, transmission, distribution, storage, use, or conservation activities shall: (1) use sound and objective scientific practices in assessing such risks; (2) consider the best available science (including peer reviewed studies); and (3) describe the weight of the scientific evidence concerning such risks.
REACH is a regulation of the European Union, adopted to improve the protection of
human health and the environment from the risks that can be posed by toxic chemical use.
The Clean Air Act — whose basic structure was established in 1970, and then amended in 1977 and 1990 — is a United States federal law designed to protect
human health and the environment from the effects of air pollution.
Not exact matches
«
From the start, the Golden Rice has been beset with issues
and problems such as its relevance,
and its safety to
human health and environment,» said Cris Panerio, MASIPAG National Coordinator.
We help protect our Australia's productive industries,
environment and human health from pests
and diseases by assessing the risks they pose, prioritising the pathways of entry
and providing new technologies for surveillance
and early response through sensor networks
and autonomous platforms.
COSMOS - standard guarantees: The use of products
from organic agriculture
and respect for biodiversity, the use of natural resources responsibly,
and respect for the
environment,
and the use of processing
and manufacturing that are clean
and respectful to
human health and the
environment.
«Over the years I have tried to use images
and ideas to cut through complacency
and apathy while trying to raise consciousness about an array of social issues
from discrimination
and human rights, to
health and the
environment» notes Chaz Maviyane - Davies on his work.
These grants are an important step in Governor Cuomo's initiative to preserve New York's vast waterways
from the danger aquatic invasive species can cause to the
environment,
human health and the economy of a region.
Others used the event as a platform to call out the Trump administration for interfering with federally funded agencies such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), tasked with ensuring that people are protected
from risks to their
health and environment and that federal laws that protect
human health and the
environment are enforced fairly
and effectively, among other things.
From cradle to grave, nuclear reactors pollute the
environment and threaten
human health and safety.
The most effective way for scientists across disciplines to stand up for science is by reaching out to elected officials at the local, state
and federal levels to offer evidence
and findings to advance understanding of pressing issues
from human health to the
environment, said Holt
and Ornstein.
A new report by authors
from UCLA School of Law's Emmett Center on Climate Change
and the
Environment and UCLA's Institute of the
Environment and Sustainability explores the sources
and impacts of plastic marine litter
and offers domestic
and international policy recommendations to tackle these growing problems — a targeted, multifaceted approach aimed at protecting ocean wildlife, coastal waters, coastal economies
and human health.
Their impact ranges
from upsetting native ecosystems, to damaging the physical
environment and even threatening
human and animal
health; hence the cost to agriculture, fisheries
and forestry, as well as the expense of control
and eradication programmes.
But the synthetic material also has left harmful imprints on the
environment and perhaps
human health, according to a new compilation of articles authored by scientists
from around the world.
«The Clean Air Act is arguably the most important
and successful environmental law in the United States, both
from a
human health standpoint
and the
environment,» said Sickman, a professor of hydrology
and the chair of the Department of Environmental Sciences.
They also tried to get samples
from countries that have had
human MERS cases, such as Saudi Arabia
and Qatar, says Marion Koopmans, an infectious disease researcher at the National Institute of Public
Health and the
Environment in the Netherlands
and one of the authors of the paper.
In this article, the term refers to the removal of pollution or contaminants
from environmental media such as soil, groundwater, sediment, or surface water for the general protection of
human health and the
environment or
from a brownfield site intended for redevelopment.
October 28, 2015 — A consortium of 48 scientists
from 50 institutions in the United States has called for an ambitious research effort to understand
and harness microbiomes — the communities of microorganisms that inhabit ecosystems as varied as the
human gut
and the ocean, to improve
human health, agriculture, bioenergy,
and the
environment.
United Nations An organization that takes on global issues,
from health and justice (including the
human rights) to protecting the
environment and promoting world peace.
``... for most nations the Kyoto Protocol would require extensive diversion of
human and financial resources away
from more immediate
and pressing needs in
health care, education, infrastructure,
and, yes, the
environment — all critical to the well - being of future generations.»
With funding
from the National Institutes of
Health, the project mission is for students to gain an intuitive understanding of the crucial interdependence between
humans and the natural
environment.
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and La NiÑA; Food
from the Sea; Life in Extreme Water
Environments;
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and the Ocean;
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and Water; Ocean Biogeochemistry; Ocean Currents; Plankton; Pollution by Invasive Species; Pollution of the Ocean by Sewage, Nutrients,
AND Chemica
AND Chemicals.
If passed, the legislation would substantially increase federal research into threats
from hormone - disrupting chemicals
and require the National Institute of Environmental
Health Sciences (NIEHS) to report to the public every two years on the extent to which hormone disruption by chemicals poses a threat to human health and the enviro
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Our qualifications arise
from the singular role of the veterinary profession, the only
health profession trained in multispecies comparative medicine
and able to elucidate key interconnections among
human health, the
environment,
and agriculture.
When I went to Kenya, for example, there was a tension: so - called progressive westerners got all watery - eyed about going on safari
and protecting the zebras
and the wildebeests, but the western
environment lovers barely noticed the people of Kenya, or ever learned about the gigantic environmental challenges to
human life
and health: like malaria borne by mosquitoes
and diseases
from unsanitary drinking water.
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From mining through final disposal of waste from coal - fired power plants, the use of coal produces a wide range of impacts on the natural environment and human hea
From mining through final disposal of waste
from coal - fired power plants, the use of coal produces a wide range of impacts on the natural environment and human hea
from coal - fired power plants, the use of coal produces a wide range of impacts on the natural
environment and human health.
Air pressure changes, allergies increase, Alps melting, anxiety, aggressive polar bears, algal blooms, Asthma, avalanches, billions of deaths, blackbirds stop singing, blizzards, blue mussels return, boredom, budget increases, building season extension, bushfires, business opportunities, business risks, butterflies move north, cannibalistic polar bears, cardiac arrest, Cholera, civil unrest, cloud increase, cloud stripping, methane emissions
from plants, cold spells (Australia), computer models, conferences, coral bleaching, coral reefs grow, coral reefs shrink, cold spells, crumbling roads, buildings
and sewage systems, damages equivalent to $ 200 billion, Dengue hemorrhagic fever, dermatitis, desert advance, desert life threatened, desert retreat, destruction of the
environment, diarrhoea, disappearance of coastal cities, disaster for wine industry (US), Dolomites collapse, drought, drowning people, drowning polar bears, ducks
and geese decline, dust bowl in the corn belt, early spring, earlier pollen season, earthquakes, Earth light dimming, Earth slowing down, Earth spinning out of control, Earth wobbling, El Nià ± o intensification, erosion, emerging infections, encephalitis,, Everest shrinking, evolution accelerating, expansion of university climate groups, extinctions (ladybirds, pandas, pikas, polar bears, gorillas, whales, frogs, toads, turtles, orang - utan, elephants, tigers, plants, salmon, trout, wild flowers, woodlice, penguins, a million species, half of all animal
and plant species), experts muzzled, extreme changes to California, famine, farmers go under, figurehead sacked, fish catches drop, fish catches rise, fish stocks decline, five million illnesses, floods, Florida economic decline, food poisoning, footpath erosion, forest decline, forest expansion, frosts, fungi invasion, Garden of Eden wilts, glacial retreat, glacial growth, global cooling, glowing clouds, Gore omnipresence, Great Lakes drop, greening of the North, Gulf Stream failure, Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, harvest increase, harvest shrinkage, hay fever epidemic, heat waves, hibernation ends too soon, hibernation ends too late,
human fertility reduced,
human health improvement, hurricanes, hydropower problems, hyperthermia deaths, ice sheet growth, ice sheet shrinkage, inclement weather, Inuit displacement, insurance premium rises, invasion of midges, islands sinking, itchier poison ivy, jellyfish explosion, Kew Gardens taxed, krill decline, landslides, landslides of ice at 140 mph, lawsuits increase, lawyers» income increased (surprise surprise!)
«Interestingly, we also found that a shift away
from ruminant meats like beef — which have impacts three to 10 times greater than other animal - based foods — towards nutritionally similar foods like pork, poultry or fish would have significant benefits, both for the
environment and for
human health.
There are other issues that are important to a lot of people
and their numbers are increasing as they learn about the other issues:
health for
humans and animals, job creation, protection of the
environment, balance of trade deficit due to imports of oil, preservation of natural resources that have better uses than just being burned, energy independence, global warming, the prestige that early adopters enjoy
and the good feeling some people get
from knowing that they have made a decision that is good in some way.
Recalling the concern reflected in the outcome document of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development, entitled «The future we want», 1 that the
health of oceans
and marine biodiversity are negatively affected by marine pollution, including marine debris, especially plastic, persistent organic pollutants, heavy metals
and nitrogen - based compounds,
from numerous marine
and land - based sources,
and the commitment to take action to significantly reduce the incidence
and impacts of such pollution on marine ecosystems, Noting the international action being taken to promote the sound management of chemicals throughout their life cycle
and waste in ways that lead to the prevention
and minimization of significant adverse effects on
human health and the
environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human
environment, Recalling the Manila Declaration on Furthering the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine
Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human
Environment from Land - based Activities adopted by the Third Intergovernmental Review Meeting on the Implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine
Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy and the Honolulu Commitment and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming from land and sea - based sources, can have on the marine environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human
Environment from Land - based Activities, which highlighted the relevance of the Honolulu Strategy
and the Honolulu Commitment
and recommended the establishment of a global partnership on marine litter, Taking note of the decisions adopted by the eleventh Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity on addressing the impacts of marine debris on marine
and coastal biodiversity, Recalling that the General Assembly declared 2014 the International Year of Small Island Developing States
and that such States have identified waste management among their priorities for action, Noting with concern the serious impact which marine litter, including plastics stemming
from land
and sea - based sources, can have on the marine
environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism and the economy, as well as the potential risks to human
environment, marine ecosystem services, marine natural resources, fisheries, tourism
and the economy, as well as the potential risks to
human health; 1.
Reducing consumption of factory farmed animal products can be an efficient strategy to improve
human health, protect the
environment,
and spare farm animals
from cruelty.
And don't forget the benefits arise from avoiding big problems, like scarcer water resources, damages to human - built environment; coastal flooding due to sea - level rise, and human - health impac
And don't forget the benefits arise
from avoiding big problems, like scarcer water resources, damages to
human - built
environment; coastal flooding due to sea - level rise,
and human - health impac
and human -
health impacts.
-- In promulgating
and implementing regulations under this part, the Administrator shall act (including by rejecting projects, if necessary) to avoid or minimize, to the maximum extent practicable, adverse effects on
human health or the
environment resulting
from the implementation of offset projects under this part.
The EPA, not the Congress, is the agency of the US Government designated by the Clean Air Act to make an official determination as to whether or not a substance being emitted into the atmosphere
from human activities represents a danger to public
health and the
environment.
It is clear
from the above that the climate change disinformation campaign is only one element in an organized effort of corporations
and free market fundamentalists foundations to limit the power of citizen movements to protect
human health and the
environment when these movements threaten corporate profits or unregulated markets.
protect
human health and the
environment against adverse effects resulting
from modifications of the ozone layer
Pollution
from the coal life cycle harms
human health and the
environment.
Last November, the DEC
and New York's Office of the Attorney General also urged the EPA to refrain
from issuing GE the Certificate of Completion it has requested until the Superfund project achieves its federally mandated goal to be «protective of
human health and the
environment.»
Panelists, which included senior environmental
and health officials from Morocco, Gambia and Ivory Coast as well as UNFCCC, the World Health Organization, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, weighed in on the urgent need to take action on the environment in ways that protect human health — which is the core of planetary h
health officials
from Morocco, Gambia
and Ivory Coast as well as UNFCCC, the World
Health Organization, and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, weighed in on the urgent need to take action on the environment in ways that protect human health — which is the core of planetary h
Health Organization,
and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, weighed in on the urgent need to take action on the
environment in ways that protect
human health — which is the core of planetary h
health — which is the core of planetary
healthhealth.
Intended as a climate change preparedness resource for planners, policymakers,
and the public, the 600 - page «ClimAID» report, written by scientists
from Cornell University, Columbia University,
and the City University of New York, says New Yorkers should begin preparing for hotter summers, snowier winters, severe floods,
and a range of other effects on the
environment, communities,
and human health.
[3] Thus, environmental policy focuses on problems arising
from human impact on the
environment, which retroacts onto
human society by having a (negative) impact on
human values such as good
health or the «clean
and green»
environment.
The inaudible sound caused by wind farms is no worse than that
from other rural
and urban
environments and does not affect
human health, a review by the Victorian Department of Health has
health, a review by the Victorian Department of
Health has
Health has found.
Supporters say limiting heat - trapping gases is needed to protect
human health and the
environment; the state faces severe economic
and environmental disruption
from rising sea levels; increased risks of drought
and wildfire,
and other climate - change impacts.
It does not take systematic account of «direct impacts on the
environment and human health» — things such as mortality
from extreme events like heat waves or tsunamis, for instance.
«Dolphins are a nice barometer in some ways for understanding contamination of the immediate
environment,» said John Kucklick, a research biologist at the National Institute of Standards
and Technology in Charleston, S.C. «If you're concerned about
human -
health impacts
from seafood, that's something to keep an eye on.
In fact, some types of trees actively consume certain types of air pollution.Looking at oxygenated volatile organic compounds (oVOCs)-- which are emitted
from both manmade
and non-manmade sources
and can have serious effects on the
health of the
environment and humans — the team found that deciduous plants take up oVOCs as much as four times more rapidly than previously thought.