Sentences with phrase «sorb organic pollutants»

Yesterday, five judges of the International Tribunal against Monsanto stated in their advisory opinion that the corporation «has engaged in practices which have negatively impacted the right to a healthy environment, the right to food, and the right to health» citing its widespread dissemination of dangerous agrochemicals in industrial agriculture, the introduction and release of GM crops, and introduction of persistent organic pollutants such as PCB in the environment.

(Toxins that can make it into your bloodstream include environmental contaminants like the heavy metals lead and mercury, persistent organic pollutants like PCBs and dioxins, and solvents.)

The microbeads are also said to attract and absorb persistent organic pollutants such as PCBs, recognized as a public health threat and already present in the Hudson River.

National Marine Fisheries Service lab staff are studying the blubber for organic pollutants like PCBs and flame retardants.

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.

Persistent organic pollutants are not even the only problem when it comes to toxic chemicals.

Every flake of plastic cup or shard of toothbrush handle is a sponge for persistent organic pollutants (POPs)-- potentially hazardous compounds that do not degrade easily and cling to any hard surface they find.

Researchers from Canada, China and Norway say their work provides the first evidence that some persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are being «remobilized» into the Arctic atmosphere.

Co-author Hayley Hung, a scientist with Environment Canada's Air Quality Division who studies toxic organic pollutants in the Arctic, said that in recent years, researchers had posited that warmer conditions would liberate POPs stored in land, ice and ocean reservoirs back into the atmosphere.

One of these compounds is classed as a persistent organic pollutant under the UNEP Stockholm Convention and industry agreed, largely voluntarily, to phase out some of these compounds.

Unfortunately, melting Alpine glaciers are generating a revival of toxic organic pollutants.

Damage to the bacteria, which clean up organic pollutants, occurred at very low levels of exposure, equivalent to two drops in an Olympic - size swimming pool, according to the study conducted by scientists at Utah State University and University of Utah.

A unique study of frozen ice cores from the Tibetan Himalayas has shown that international agreements on phasing out the use of toxic persistent organic pollutants are working.

«This doesn't mean that the organic pollutants become less of a threat.

«Climate change influences distribution of organic pollutants in the Baltic Sea.»

The ability to sorb organic pollutants has shown to differ between different parts of the Baltic Sea.

According to Matyas Ripszam, Umeå University, this change will have high impact on the organic pollutants on the organic pollutants in the northern Baltic Sea, since this carbon can interact with the pollutants and decrease their concentration in the water.

The technology also can be used to treat water to remove pathogens and other organic pollutants.

Together with researchers from ETH Zurich, Eawag and the Zurich University of Applied Sciences (ZHAW), he published several studies that show how HBCD is structured, which forms tend to accumulate in the environment and count as persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

She said the planned research into persistent organic pollutants in the sea, in particular, is a vital aim that could help advance science in that arena, eventually raising awareness in the mainstream about the consequences of consumption.

Researchers at Dartmouth's Ke Functional Materials Group are also hopeful that the technique can be used to create materials to target other types of inorganic and organic pollutants, particularly antibiotics in water supplies that can lead to the creation of super-resistant microorganisms.

Glass eels are also likely to be falling victim to organic pollutants and dams that pinch off upstream habitat, researchers surmise.

«Humans are not the only ones who produce halogenated organic pollutants.»

The blood of 872 Danish women was tested for persistent organic pollutants.

«Soil that has been polluted by organic pollutants such as oil can be treated by composting.

For example, burning the soil at a high temperature (over 1,000 degrees) in an incinerator destroys the organic pollutants, but the process is expensive and there is insufficient incineration capacity in Finland to treat all the soil that requires burning.

As iron rusts, it unleashes electrons that can break down organic pollutants such as dioxins, PCBs, and many pesticides.

Soil polluted with other organic pollutants than oil accounts for as much as 45 % of excavated contaminated soil.

Exposure to persistent organic pollutants, or POPs, in the womb has been linked to developmental disorders and learning delays, reduced immune system function and changes in hormones.

However it is not effective against many other organic pollutants such as polyaromatic hydrocarbons and dioxins.

Fungi could be used to expand bioremediation for the destruction of the more enduring organic pollutants too, states Winquist.

If the plant succeeds in field trials, experts say variants might be sicced on solvents and other organic pollutants.

Activists claimed that the Oriental Nicety, too, was contaminated with asbestos and polychlorinated biphenyls, a persistent organic pollutant.

Toxic chemicals are accumulating in the ecosystems of the Himalayas and the Tibetan plateau, researchers warn in the first comprehensive study to assess levels of certain organic pollutants in that part of the world.

A new global analysis of seafood found that fish populations throughout the world's oceans are contaminated with industrial and agricultural pollutants, collectively known as persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

«Unlike a lot of organic pollutants in drinking water where the regulatory limit may be in the microgram per liter range, for NDMA, the regulatory guideline in many places ranges from 10 nanograms per liter to 100 nanograms per liter.

The interactive infographic below examines the gaps in data and understanding for four health - relevant air pollutants (particulate matter, ozone, mercury and persistent organic pollutants) and describes what is needed to design the next - generation indicators to address them.

United Nations countries are evaluating endosulfan for inclusion in the Stockholm Convention, an international treaty which bans or restricts persistent organic pollutants — chemicals that can build up in the environment.

And within a century after that, melting could begin to release waste stored at the camp, including sewage, diesel fuel, persistent organic pollutants like PCBs, and radiological waste from the camp's nuclear generator, which was removed during decommissioning.

The team focused on yeast in part because of its important modern - day applications; yeasts are used to convert the sugars of biomass feedstocks into biofuels such as ethanol and industrial chemicals such as lactic acid, or to break down organic pollutants.

Sherr and others have shown that PCBs, dioxins, and other organic pollutants seem to activate the aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR), which, among other things, contributes to cancer.

«Moreover, in the absence of information regarding levels of persistent organic pollutants across participating cohorts, our hypothesis that fish - associated contaminant exposure may play a role in the observed associations remains speculative,» the authors write.

Physiological effects of organic pollutants and their effect on neuronal regulation.

Once released into the environment, plastics can also accumulate persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

To date, the most widely reported associations between cardiovascular disease and pollutants have centred on exposure to air particulates, heavy metals, notably arsenic and lead, and persistent organic pollutants.

People who eat fish from glacial meltwater may be at risk from persistent organic pollutants produced in the 20th century.

The deep - sea as a final global sink for semivolatile persistent organic pollutants?

The Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants is an international environmental treaty, signed in 2001 and effective from May 2004, that aims to eliminate or restrict the production and use of persistent organic pollutants (POPs).

Some of these particles - PAHs - appear on the United Nation's list of persistent organic pollutants where they are regulated as air pollution.

Our results suggest that much more work is needed to mitigate PCB contamination of the marine environment, and to comply with the Stockholm Convention that requires the reduction and eventual elimination of large sources of PCBs and other persistent organic pollutants.