Contamination – Page 8
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NewsHarvard and Google team up to take on harmful construction chemicals
New centre is working with Google and others to reduce the use of chemicals linked to health and environmental problems
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ResearchTool to navigate chemical space aims to be ‘Google Maps of drugs’
Software allows links between 8000 drugs and 47,000 compounds of environmental concern to be explored in 3D
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ResearchPersistent pollutants push polar bear penises to breaking point
Bear penile bone study found higher risk of brittleness linked to ingestion of toxic chemicals
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NewsEuropean risk assessment slams neonicotinoids
EFSA analysis confirming harm to bees could lead to an outright ban on the pesticides
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BusinessChemist caught stealing and dumping cyanide
Merck & Co senior analytical chemist arrested for stealing and then dumping highly toxic substance down a curbside drain
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News3M pays $850 million to settle drinking water contamination lawsuit
Legal dispute between Minnesota and 3M over perfluorinated compounds ends as company agrees to pay remediation costs
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NewsDatabase offers free access to previously secret chemical data
ToxicDocs allows users to retrieve millions of internal corporate and trade group pages on chemical toxicity
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ResearchLondon soil pollution worst on former Blitz bomb sites
Study links heavy metal enrichment to destruction of housing in 1940s
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ResearchAbandoned Cornish mine may hold clues to uranium clean-up
First time arsenic has been found to lock up uranium in a mineral
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NewsEnvironment ministers commit to pollution prevention
UN assembly secures declaration from the world’s environment officials that they will clamp down on hazardous chemicals and end pollution
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NewsDangerous levels of mercury detected in Minamata meeting delegates
Mercury concentrations more than three times the health advisory threshold found in representatives from small island nations
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NewsGlyphosate exposure jumped substantially in two decades in Californian community
Rising levels of herbicide linked to US introduction of GM crops in 1994
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ResearchSubsea oil dispersants a success at Deepwater disaster
Dispersant injection near well head at Gulf of Mexico disaster site cut volatile organic chemical emissions significantly
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ResearchCatalyst made from plant roots promotes Suzuki reaction
Ecocatalyst recycling strategy could be used to recover precious metal pollutants from contaminated sites
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ResearchComputer plastics recycled into toys
Brominated flame retardants found in toys and cup lids
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NewsHeavy metal's revenge
Climate change could see levels of toxic mercury rise again even as the world cuts emissions
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NewsPerfluorinated chemicals in drinking water of 15 million Americans
Compounds found in 162 water systems from industrial plants, military bases and fire fighter training sites
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NewsScare leads Nasa to supply Virginia town with drinking water
Chincoteague homes being supplied with water after high levels of fluorinated chemicals were detected in space agency’s wells
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ResearchGarden centre plants may pose pesticide threat to bees
Insecticides on ornamental UK plants found at levels known to have an impact on pollinators
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BusinessPollution from Indian drugmakers drives drug resistance
Areas around manufacturing sites still heavily contaminated with antimicrobials and breeding multidrug-resistant pathogens