Sentences with phrase «on chemicals in our environment»

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With the amount of toxins and unknown chemicals in our food and environment, they all eventually take a toll on the body in the form of inflammation.

We really need to make more of an effort to learn what's going on in our environment and in our home and try to further our efforts to not only protect our kids from harmful chemicals, but to also lesson our family's carbon footprint.

«We have immediately taken action on bisphenol A because we believe it is our responsibility to ensure families, Canadians and our environment are not exposed to a potentially harmful chemical,» Tony Clement, the minister of health, said in a statement.

When using too many these pads, you are contributing on destroying the environment due to harsh chemicals in the materials.

Many adults are becoming more health - conscious and concerned about what is in the food they eat, the toxins floating around in the environment and the potentially harmful chemicals stuffed into a lot of beauty products on the shelves today.

The group Environment Massachusetts is urging Massachusetts lawmakers to enact a ban on fracking even though geologists and the petroleum industry insist the chances are remote the controversial gas drilling technique — where water and chemicals are used to break rock — would ever be used in the Bay State.

1962 saw the publication of «Silent Spring» by Rachel Carson, which detailed the damaging impact of DDT and other chemicals on the environment, and played a key part in popularising environmentalism.

Chlordane, toxaphene, DDT and PCBs are all examples of persistent organic pollutants — chemicals that were once widely used in agriculture and manufacturing (or accidentally produced through industrial processes or combustion) but are now banned due to their adverse effects on human health and the environment.

They focused on seven physical and chemical properties of soil that could affect the ability for a prion to stick around in the environment.

Fairén says there is growing evidence that the harsh environment on the martian surface — a combination of frigid temperatures, caustic chemicals and deadly cosmic radiation — would kill Earth's microbes quickly, especially in the limited numbers that ride along with robots.

Although such a polymer would be immune to protein - destroying entities, Grate expects other things in the environment such as bacteria will break it down, based on TZP's chemical nature.

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 panel, which was commissioned by U.K. science minister David Sainsbury in July 2003, concluded that nanoparticles and nanotubes should be treated as new chemicals and their impacts on health and the environment be tested under existing U.K. and E.U. legislation.

A team of researchers, led by the University of Minnesota, has invented a new soap molecule made from renewable sources that could dramatically reduce the number of chemicals in cleaning products and their impact on the environment.

The Commission says the Montreal Protocol allows «unlimited» production of CFCs as feedstocks, and puts no limit on trade in used chemicals because recycling is better for the environment than prod - ucing new chemicals.

On 16 April, the EPA will release its preliminary risk assessment for atrazine at a technical briefing, a key step in its long process of reviewing the chemical's effects on humans, wildlife, and the environmenOn 16 April, the EPA will release its preliminary risk assessment for atrazine at a technical briefing, a key step in its long process of reviewing the chemical's effects on humans, wildlife, and the environmenon humans, wildlife, and the environment.

According to the agency, studies have shown that the chemical, chlorfenapyr, is «persistent in the environment and causes severe effects on bird reproduction.»

«More than 10,000 million metric tons of carbon emissions were reported in 2010 from conventional fossil fuels and chemicals, which has a long - term catastrophic effect on our environment.»

As a fellow for two terms (1997 until 1999), Euling assessed the cumulative risk of various toxic agents on development and studied whether certain chemicals in the environment influence the timing of puberty.

On Thursday, millions of us will go to the polls to decide how Britain is represented in the European Parliament, but few will have the faintest idea where the candidates stand on issues that affect the food we eat, the air we breathe, the energy in our homes and the chemicals in our environmenOn Thursday, millions of us will go to the polls to decide how Britain is represented in the European Parliament, but few will have the faintest idea where the candidates stand on issues that affect the food we eat, the air we breathe, the energy in our homes and the chemicals in our environmenon issues that affect the food we eat, the air we breathe, the energy in our homes and the chemicals in our environment.

As caterpillars grow, they take on a characteristic chemical signature of the environment, with hydrogen, oxygen and other elements fixed in tissues in varying amounts.

Because fluorescence is sensitive to the local chemical and physical environment, this emitted light can «report» on the local properties of the food, the pH, polarity, or in the case of Allura Red, local viscosity or thickness.

Many researchers are content to follow NASA's lead as it cautiously moves from «following the water» in search of likely habitable or once - habitable environments on Mars to «following the carbon» — that is, looking for chemical traces of ancient life.

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.

Endy recalls a 2006 New York Times article on synthetic biology in which Frances Arnold, a distinguished professor of chemical engineering at Caltech, said, «There is no such thing as a standard [biological] component, because even a standard component works differently depending on the environment.

Senator Barbara Boxer (D — CA), the top Democrat on the Senate environment panel, had argued especially forcefully against language in the Senate bill that would have kept existing state chemical regulations on the books, but reduced the states» ability to issue new regulations in the future.

There is a growing sense, Pessah adds, that our heavily industrialized, chemical - soaked environment — and the way it acts on vulnerable genes in some individuals — may be a major culprit.

Says Herbert, «We discussed the enormous number of chemicals in our environment and how little we know about chronic, low - dose, multiple exposures and their effect on diseases like autism.

Moving the chemical complexity of the ocean to the laboratory represented a major advance that will enable many new studies to be performed,» said Kimberly Prather, Distinguished Chair in Atmospheric Chemistry at the University of California, San Diego and director of the Center for Aerosol Impacts on Climate and the Environment, who led the team of more than 30 scientists involved in this project.

While the chemical reaction that the bacteria perform on uranium is a common process known as «reduction,» or the act of accepting electrons, Kerkhof said it's still a mystery how the reduced uranium produced by this microorganism ultimately behaves in the subsurface environment.

The intent of the language in those bills is for the agency to focus only on the risks that a chemical poses to public health and the environment.

The duo found that, when cells want to detect chemicals in their environment, the best strategy is to discard information on how long those chemicals bind to receptors and instead record just the duration of the unbound intervals.

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.

The researchers are now working on sensors that could be used to monitor other biological properties, such as pH. «We hope this is the first of many types of solid - state contrast agents where the material responds to its chemical environment in such a way that we can detect it by MRI,» Cima says.

Previous methods to identify coal ash contaminants in the environment were based solely on the contaminants» chemical variations, he said.

Clark leads research efforts focused on the chemistry and chemical engineering of processing nuclear materials — including DOE's Energy Frontier Research Center on Interfacial Dynamics in Radioactive Environments and Materials (IDREAM).

Adopting the scheme of chemical disorder, which has been proved to successfully capture the variety of eumelanin protomolecules, we show that (1) the formation process of eumelanin protomolecules from the constituting monomers is generally hindered in a solvent environment with respect to vacuum and (2) key factors in improving the adhesion properties and band lineup of the molecules on an inorganic interface are the molecular electronic state and the planarity of their structures.

The excited atoms, in turn, emit signals that can be used to create images of the brain, muscle, and other tissues, which can be distinguished based on the local physical and chemical environment of the water molecules.

His interests are related to catalysis in zeolites as well as on nanostructured oxides and sulfides, focusing on bifunctional and concerted catalysis, as well as understanding the influence of the steric and chemical environment on the properties of active centers in a catalytic site.

The idea that the chemicals in shampoo are bad for the environment, on the other hand, is unfounded, says Dr. Rogers.

When using rosemary, you may come across different chemotypes, which simply means that the oil has a unique chemical composition dependent on the environment in which the plant was grown.

They also contain special chemicals and ingredients that make them able to absorb 10x their weight in liquid, but the effect of these chemicals have not been comprehensively studied for their affect on the environment.

Obesogens are chemicals in our environment that slow our metabolism and wreak havoc on our bodies.

I wish there were different sizes and shapes of Cups because the idea of less impact on the environment and less chemicals in your body is great!

These methods rely on using an acidic medium in liquid to soak the grains, a constructive environment to soak them and let them sprout, or a process like sourdough fermentation to alter the chemical make - up of the grain.

The chemical composition of the plant is reportedly what gives it the stress - busting effects, and those chemicals depend on the environment in which it is grown.

There are many chemicals in the environment that can make your body put on fat.

There are literally hundreds of chemical endocrine disruptors in our environment nowadays and these chemicals can have a very negative impact on our hormones.

Detoxification — Even major media outlets like Time magazine are writing about the dangers of chemicals in the environment and the effects they have on your hormones.

More than 700 synthetic chemicals mimic estrogen in a toxic way, and their prevalence in our environment is on the rise.