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River Drying Up to Lead to Freshwater Crisis |
 ...Due to the changes in climate, pollution and bad planning some of the largest and well-known rivers in the world are currently at risk of drying up. An environment group called WWF made a study that pays attention to ten best-known rivers that can dry up in case people won't take certain measures. The report states that indifference towards these rivers might lead to "fresh water emergency."
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Apple to pay air pollution sanctions |
| ...Apple will have to pay for polluting the air near Sacramento, CA. The pollution was registered on April 21, 2006, when Apple launched its emergency generator on its production site in Elk Groove. As reported by the Sacramento Business Journal, the Service for Air Quality Control of Sacramento claimed that the computer manufacturer paid $43,200. Larry Green, the director of the service, mentioned that Apple jeopardized the... |
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Phones should be redesigned, study says |
 ...d, could become a serious threat to human health.
A study by scientists from the University of California, Irvine, lead by Oladele Ogunseitan, states that those measures where not to fully prevent pollution from cell phones. After testing 34 different phones the study showed that due to leakage of such materials as zinc, copper antimony and nickel the phones could become a source of pollution, as reported by Environmen... |
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Plastic Blood and Airplanes Shifting Shapes – Close to Reality? |
 ...n with this product in future. The resilience is the plastic's basic characteristic that makes it just indispensable. At at the same time it means the material will continuosly cause the environment pollution.
At present day less than 10 percent of all products produced from plastic are recycled. As estimated by the Worldwatch Institute, an agency engaged in an environmental research, only in the U.S. about 100 billio... |
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Ten Unnoticed Effects of Global Warming |
| ...ravated and aggressive allergy fits and, partly, experts blame the global warming. How are these things interrelated? Very simple: on one side there are changes in people's lifestyle, strengthened by pollution. The protection against allergens weakens and the results are allergies. On the other side - global warming. It made springs come earlier, thus plants bloom earlier too and produce more pollen. All of this results i... |
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Male birth decline - an environmental fault? |
 ...Researchers are concerned about major male birth decline and blame air pollution for this. The drop in number of male babies born in comparison to female babies was largely observed in United States and Japan.
Devra Davis, a scientist from University of Pittsburg suggests in the publication of June issue of Environmental Health Perspectives that there is a strong tendency for less boys to be born lately. She says th... |
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Innovative Cell-Based Sensors to Detect Danger Immediately |
 ... this gives an opportunity for testing new drugs much faster than animal and human trials. It may also help in detecting harmful bacteria in food, to monitor water quality or to test the level of air pollution.
The study won the University of Maryland's 2004 Invention of the Year Award in the physical science.
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2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing Officially Opened |
 ...ssary mean that the air is polluted. He predicts that heavy rain will clear the skies over the upcoming weekend.
Mr Rogge outlined that China has made "extraordinary" efforts to lower the level of pollution before the beginning of the Olympic Games and mentioned that athletes were not in danger.
Everyone is welcome to discuss the ceremony and the events that occur at the Olympics.
Let the Games begin.
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