Sentences with phrase «in lead pollution»

Rise and fall of the Roman Empire is exposed in lead pollution trapped in Greenland ice samples more than...

Sources of lead include toys made in China and coated with lead paint, and crawling around on the floor where shoes drag in lead pollution from outside.

The team's thousand - year historical record included noticeable changes in lead pollution from Rome following major events such as the Gothic Wars in 535 C.E., Byzantine repairs to abandoned Roman aqueducts in 554 C.E., and the mid-9th century Arab sack of Rome.

More recently, China's coal - fired power plants have taken the lead in lead pollution.

Not exact matches

To ease concerns that Mexico's low wage scale would cause U.S. companies to shift production to that country, and to ensure that Mexico's increasing industrialization would not lead to rampant pollution, special side agreements were included in NAFTA.

«Ride - sharing services have enormous potential for positive societal impact with respect to congestion, pollution and energy consumption,» Daniela Rus, the professor at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory who led the study, said in a press release.

Since then, her ongoing research and those of dozens of colleagues have led to conclusions that urban pollution, particularly the kind you live with in dense areas like New York City, New Delhi, London, and Mexico City, is a critical health concern.

Air pollution is now the fourth leading cause of death worldwide, weighing in just below smoking, and the top environmental health risk.

Strategies to live more safely in such an environment abound, and no wonder: The journal Nature recently found that air pollution leads to the premature death of three million people every year, mainly in Asia.

This confluence of forces has led China to implement a wide range of policies supporting a transition to clean energy — from feed - in - tariffs for renewable power, to electric vehicle incentives, to market - based policies to reduce carbon pollution.

Darin Kingston of d.light, whose profitable solar - powered LED lanterns simultaneously address poverty, education, air pollution / toxic fumes / health risks, energy savings, carbon footprint, and more Janine Benyus, biomimicry pioneer who finds models in the natural world for everything from extracting water from fog (as a desert beetle does) to construction materials (spider silk) to designing flood - resistant buildings by studying anthills in India's monsoon climate, and shows what's possible when you invite the planet to join your design thinking team Dean Cycon, whose coffee company has not only exclusively sold organic fairly traded gourmet coffee and cocoa beans since its founding in 1993, but has funded dozens of village - led community development projects in the lands where he sources his beans John Kremer, whose concept of exponential growth through «biological marketing,» just as a single kernel of corn grows into a plant bearing thousands of new kernels, could completely change your business strategy Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, who built a near - net - zero - energy luxury home back in 1983, and has developed a scientific, economically viable plan to get the entire economy off oil, coal, and nuclear and onto renewables — while keeping and even improving our high standard of living

This ideology is the basis for a mode of production, especially in the affluent countries, whose thirst for profit and for irrational expansion has not only promoted the pauperization of the majority of the planet's human population but has also led to the plundering and pollution of nature.

On the other hand efforts at genetic modification of seeds, plant and animal life can lead to dangers to human life itself as seen in the recent instances of the mad cow phenomenon in Britain and the pollution of chicken meat due to the dangerous chemicals in their feed.

There is a current and lively argument in our own Congress, with California's Senator Boxer leading the charge for a bill to cut our emissions sharply, even as she prepares to fly to Bali and contribute some atmospheric pollution as she flies.

ORAC scores measure the ability of antioxidants to absorb free radicals (that come from pollution and toxins in our environment), which cause cell and tissue damage and can lead to diseases such as cancer.

Another precaution is to avoid buying protein powders that were made in China, where high levels of pollution and poor manufacturing practices often lead to contaminated supplements.

The Green Revolution led to massive genetic erosion in farmers fields and knowledge, erosion among farming communities, besides leading to large scale environmental pollution due to use of toxic agrichemicals and wasteful use of water.

Free Radical Protection: The high levels of antioxidants in Cacao Powder can help protect the body from free radicals such as cigarette smoke, sun exposure, and pollution which may lead to cancer and cardiovascular disease.

It is possible that the creation of cement will not be as bad as the pollution from coal - mining; however, in regards to «With the elimination of fly - ash alternatives, cement creation will quickly be the leading cause of green house gases» — If it is a top creator now, and we increase the usage, would you not expect it to climb the list?

As the three - year controversy over the gun club came to a head, questions arose about the legitimacy of the issue of lead - shot pollution, the possibility of an underlying anti-gun sentiment, and the role of Park District politics in the decision to seek the gun club «s ouster.

On March 23, Broadmoor Wildlife Sanctuary in Natick will host a CRWA - led training on Municipal Separate Storm Sewer System permits and effective strategies for reducing storm water runoff pollution.

In fact, feeding them can create an unnatural and unhealthy dependence on us as their food providers, and can lead to other problems, like overcrowding and water pollution.

And we weren't asked for our input before Jeremy led on air pollution at PMQs: an issue we'd been doing a lot of work on, challenging government complacency and inaction in the context of the Client Earth court case and the Volkswagen scandal.

Dan Telvock continued his relentless coverage of lead poisoning in Buffalo's inner - city, radioactive contamination in Niagara County and pollution along Scajaquada Creek.

Boris said expanding Heathrow would lead to a huge increase in noise pollution and likened it to something that would have occurred in communist China.

«The Governor has led the nation in combating climate change from banning fracking to one of the most aggressive clean energy standards in the country to closing down dangerous Indian Point to the single largest procurement of renewable energy in our nation's history and the first multi-state cap and trade system to lower carbon pollution,» said Cuomo campaign spokeswoman Abbey Fashouer.

But the Green Party has warned that Lord Adonis's backing of new river crossings in the capital may lead to more air pollution and congestion if he joins City Hall and the crossings are built.

And if there is one thing everyone agrees about in drug policy it is that the MDA (and similar legislation in other countries) was not intended to create a huge criminal market; undermine international development and security; increase health harms including HIV / AIDS; promote stigma and discrimination; lead to deforestation and pollution, and undermine human rights all over the globe (see countthecosts.org for details).

He answered questions about potential lead pollution from a gun range in the Bronx, the availability of prekindergarten seats on the Upper East Side and reforms at Rikers Island.

As the severity of the crisis came into clearer focus, the state health department still declined to take the lead in Hoosick Falls, preferring to leave it to village officials privately negotiating with St. Gobain, the owner of the factory the state later determined had been responsible for the pollution, emails show.

The beads are a common ingredient in cosmetics and personal care products and are a leading cause of plastic pollution in lakes and rivers.

His campaign issued a statement saying, in part, that «the Governor has led the nation in combating climate change», including, closing down the «dangerous» Indian Point nuclear power plant and implementing the first multi-state cap and trade system to lower carbon pollution.

It was unclear if the Senate would take up a bill that passed the Assembly making it easier for residents of Hoosick Falls and other communities to sue for damages related to water pollution, or if the Assembly would pass a bill mandating testing for lead in school districts.

Biello: In terms of pollution sources and so this has been a big challenge leading up to the Olympics and, you know, that has obviously led to some athletes deciding not to participate or to take what scientifically speaking is a foolish precaution wearing masks which actually would not help that much.

Using data from 16 ice cores collected from widely spaced locations around the Antarctic continent, including the South Pole, a group led by Joe McConnell of the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno, Nevada, created the most accurate and precise reconstruction to date of lead pollution over Earth's southernmost continent.

Nitrogen accumulation in large lakes can lead to nitrogen pollution downstream, in rivers and coastal areas.

The study, which was led by Dr Rose Meleady, of UEA's School of Psychology, Prof Dominic Abrams and Dr Tim Hopthrow at the University of Kent, and Dr Julie Van de Vyver at the University of Lincoln, comes amid continued concern about air pollution levels in cities across the UK and worldwide.

«Microplastic pollution has been in the news recently, with several governments planning a ban on microbeads used in cosmetics and detergents» says Alina Wieczorek from the National University of Ireland, Galway and lead author of the study.

More than half said they don't warn about mercury, and hardly any of them give advice about lead, pesticides, air pollution or chemicals in plastics or cosmetics.

They found that exposure to pollution from the fires in the last few months of gestation leads to earlier birth and smaller babies, and they found some evidence of increased fetal mortality.

Particles from small - scale energy use, mainly household fires for cooking and heating, are the leading cause of air - pollution deaths in many areas of Asia, researchers report in the Sept. 17 Nature.

Laurent Lebreton, lead author of the study, explains: «Although it is not possible to draw any firm conclusions on the persistency of plastic pollution in the GPGP yet, this plastic accumulation rate inside the GPGP, which was greater than in the surrounding waters, indicates that the inflow of plastic into the patch continues to exceed the outflow.»

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«Our study results highlight the danger of exposure to pollution while babies are still in the womb,» said lead author Hind Sbihi, research associate in UBC's School of Population and Public Health.

He found that the added air pollution caused by each degree Celsius increase in temperature caused by CO2 leads to about 1,000 additional deaths in the U.S. and many more cases of respiratory illness and asthma.

«Twenty years ago, light pollution could be considered only a problem for astronomers,» says lead author Fabio Falchi, a high school physics teacher in Thiene, Italy, who became concerned about the growing threat of light pollution in the 1990s after it began interfering with his hobby of amateur astronomy.

The region experienced similar smoke conditions caused by El Niño in 2006 but the Harvard - led team found that deaths from air pollution more than doubled between the 2006 and 2015 events, from about 38,000 to about 100,000.

Just a tad less fertilizer on Midwestern farms could lead to big drops in nitrogen pollution in the Mississippi River without sacrificing crop yields, a new study shows.

Twenty years ago those activities contributed similar amounts of heavy - metal pollution but have since drastically cleaned up their acts, leaving power plants as the leading manmade source, by far, of mercury emissions in this country.

WATER companies have been saved from a multibillion - pound bill to clean up lead pollution in tapwater — thanks to a loophole in a new draft directive from the European Union.