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UrduA new study led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine revealed how in utero Zika virus infection can lead to microcephaly in newborns. The team discovered that the Zika virus protein NS4A disrupts brain growth by hijacking a pathway…
Tag: ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH
Explosion in Tianjin Port enhanced atmospheric nitrogen deposition over the Bohai Sea
Total production and the scale of industrial enterprises in China have expanded greatly since late 1970s. As such, the long-term accumulated environmental risks have evolved and intensified, and China has entered a period of high incidence of environmental pollution events.…
The effects of a mock shelter environment on sleep
Are evacuation shelters too cold in winter?
Explosion in Tianjin Port enhanced atmospheric nitrogen deposition over the Bohai Sea
Total production and the scale of industrial enterprises in China have expanded greatly since late 1970s. As such, the long-term accumulated environmental risks have evolved and intensified, and China has entered a period of high incidence of environmental pollution events.…
The effects of a mock shelter environment on sleep
Are evacuation shelters too cold in winter?
The Lancet: Climate change already damaging health of world’s children and threatens lifelong impact
New research from 35 global institutions published in The Lancet reports on extensive health damage from climate change and sets out the lifelong health consequences of rising temperatures for a child born today should the world follow a business-as-usual pathway.…
Dartmouth engineers partner with arctic residents to bolster resilience and sustainability
$2.6 million NSF grant to fund four-year project
Engineers help with water under the bridge and other tough environmental decisions
In two new papers, civil engineers explore how to make decisions using quantifiable social, economic and environmental guidelines. It’s called a sustainability-based optimized algorithm. It’s designed to help land managers, city planners, engineers and policymakers make decisions about civil engineering…
Flame-retardant exposure increases anxiety, affects social behaviors in prairie vole
New research led by North Carolina State University has shown that early life exposure to a commonly used flame-retardant mixture increases anxiety and affects socioemotional behaviors in prairie voles, particularly in females. The work supports the hypothesis that chemical flame…
Spero Renewables signs $2 million DOE agreement to advance ‘wood-based’ plastic technology
Plastic-made surplus wood shown to be as strong as steel but light weight and more easily recyclable.
Dartmouth engineers partner with arctic residents to bolster resilience and sustainability
$2.6 million NSF grant to fund four-year project
Harvard study shows where global renewable energy investments have greatest benefits
New metrics can guide investors and policymakers working to reach sustainable development goals
Engineers help with water under the bridge and other tough environmental decisions
In two new papers, civil engineers explore how to make decisions using quantifiable social, economic and environmental guidelines. It’s called a sustainability-based optimized algorithm. It’s designed to help land managers, city planners, engineers and policymakers make decisions about civil engineering…
Flame-retardant exposure increases anxiety, affects social behaviors in prairie vole
New research led by North Carolina State University has shown that early life exposure to a commonly used flame-retardant mixture increases anxiety and affects socioemotional behaviors in prairie voles, particularly in females. The work supports the hypothesis that chemical flame…
Harvard study shows where global renewable energy investments have greatest benefits
New metrics can guide investors and policymakers working to reach sustainable development goals
Spero Renewables signs $2 million DOE agreement to advance ‘wood-based’ plastic technology
Plastic-made surplus wood shown to be as strong as steel but light weight and more easily recyclable.
Government should address climate change, health and taxes as one issue
Protecting our climate will protect health, and implementing evidence-based policies that consider action to meet targets on global warming, the economy, taxes and health together should be a priority for Canada’s government, argues an editorial in CMAJ ( Canadian Medical…
Arts ‘crucial’ to reducing poor health and inequality
Engaging in artistic activities such as singing and dancing from a young age can reduce social inequalities and encourage healthy behaviours, according to a new report from UCL and the World Health Organisation (WHO). The study, published today, is the…
Gold mining critically impairs water quality in rivers across Peruvian biodiversity hotspot
Study examines increased sediment levels in rivers as a result of mining
Government should address climate change, health and taxes as one issue
Protecting our climate will protect health, and implementing evidence-based policies that consider action to meet targets on global warming, the economy, taxes and health together should be a priority for Canada’s government, argues an editorial in CMAJ ( Canadian Medical…
Arts ‘crucial’ to reducing poor health and inequality
Engaging in artistic activities such as singing and dancing from a young age can reduce social inequalities and encourage healthy behaviours, according to a new report from UCL and the World Health Organisation (WHO). The study, published today, is the…
Gold mining critically impairs water quality in rivers across Peruvian biodiversity hotspot
Study examines increased sediment levels in rivers as a result of mining
Lower IQ, family history tied to treatment-resistant schizophrenia
Those with a family history of schizophrenia and men with lower IQ are more likely to struggle with treatment resistant schizophrenia than others with the mental disorder, according to a study by researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden published in…
Air pollution in India is associated with higher risk of cardiovascular disease
The association between ambient and household air pollution and carotid intima-media thickness (CIMT), a marker of atherosclerosis, has been explored for the first time in a population of a low-and-middle income country by a team led by the Barcelona Institute…
SDHI pesticides are toxic for human cells
Mitochondria are organelles that are present in eukaryotic cells. They contain respiratory chains that are crucial for the survival of organisms. Without mitochondria, it would be impossible, in the presence of oxygen, to extract the energy contained in nutrients in…
Study: Actually, potted plants don’t improve indoor air quality
Drexel researchers show decades of potted plant studies don’t hold up outside the lab
Hospital disinfectants struggling to kill C. diff bacteria colonies
Clorox comes close, but none completely eliminates superbug
Prenatal exposure to pollution linked to brain changes related to behavioral problems
Even within the limits established by the European Union, particulate matter is associated with a decrease in the volume of the corpus callosum, a structure associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder
Study: Actually, potted plants don’t improve indoor air quality
Drexel researchers show decades of potted plant studies don’t hold up outside the lab
Hospital disinfectants struggling to kill C. diff bacteria colonies
Clorox comes close, but none completely eliminates superbug
Prenatal exposure to pollution linked to brain changes related to behavioral problems
Even within the limits established by the European Union, particulate matter is associated with a decrease in the volume of the corpus callosum, a structure associated with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and autism spectrum disorder
Study Links Prenatal Exposure to Air Pollution to Negative Impact on Infants’ Heart Rate Response to Stress
A mother’s exposure to particulate air pollution during pregnancy is associated with reduced cardiac response to stress in six-month-old infants, according to Mount Sinai research published in Environmental Health Perspectives in October. This study is the first to find that particulate air pollution exposure in utero can affect heart rate variability, which is a known risk factor for health issues.
Exposure to Multiple Chemicals in Consumer Products During Early Pregnancy Is Related to Lower IQ in Children
Exposure during the first trimester of pregnancy to mixtures of suspected endocrine-disrupting chemicals found in consumer products is related to lower IQ in children by age 7, according to a study by researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and Karlstad University, Sweden, published in Environment International in October. This study is among the first to look at prenatal suspected endocrine-disrupting chemical mixtures in relation to neurodevelopment.
Scaling up a cleaner-burning alternative for cookstoves
Mechanical engineering students in MIT D-Lab are working with collaborators in Uganda to scale-up a solution for the health risks associated with wood-burning cookstoves
A climate model developed by ISGlobal provides long-term predictions of ‘El Niño’ events
Although a number of operational climate models are capable of predicting El Niño events, they cannot perform long-term forecasts more than half a year in advance. Now, a team from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), an institution supported…
Recent increase in fine particulate matter associated with more premature deaths in US
In the United States, annual average levels of fine particulate matter–PM2.5, a measure of solid particles and liquid droplets that are 2.5 micrometers or smaller found in the air–declined 24% from 2009 to 2016, then increased 5% between 2016 to…
Columbia Mailman School epidemiologist elected to National Academy of Medicine
October 21, 2019 — The National Academy of Medicine (NAM) today announced that Charles Branas, PhD, Gelman Endowed Professor of Epidemiology, and Chair, Department of Epidemiology at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, was elected to the National Academy…
Lead poisoning reduced with safer mining practices
Blood lead levels reduced by 32% in Nigerian gold mining communities
Resistance to antibiotics doubles in 20 years, new study finds
(Barcelona, October 21, 2019) Resistance to commonly-used antibiotics for treating harmful bacteria related to a variety of stomach conditions has more than doubled in 20 years, new research presented today at UEG Week Barcelona 2019 has shown. The study, which…
Big data, artificial intelligence to support research on harmful blue-green algae
Robotic boats and aerial drones combine with water sampling to study eastern lakes
Can the design of a building improve the creative output of its occupants?
New study published in Creativity Research Journal shows Maharishi Vastu architecture increased workplace creativity
Report: Progress in global cancer fight is not only possible, but achievable
Third edition of Cancer Atlas highlights patterns and inequities in cancer burden around the world
In Baltimore, lower income neighborhoods have bigger mosquitoes
Larger mosquitoes better at transmitting disease, put residents at risk
Linking soil and environmental health
Changes in soil microbes, soil salinity to be covered in symposium
Light-based strategy effectively treats carbon monoxide poisoning in rats
BOSTON – Carbon monoxide (CO)–which is produced by cars and trucks, as well as fires and explosions–is a toxic, colorless, and odorless gas, and there are more than 50,000 admissions to US emergency rooms due to CO poisoning each year,…
Water + air + electricity = hydrogen peroxide
Rice University breakthrough produces valuable chemical on demand at point of use
BTI researchers unlocking hornworts’ secrets
Figuring out the genetic underpinnings of hornworts’ weird biology could help researchers boost agricultural output, use less fertilizer, and gain new insights into plant evolution
The science Of Breaking Bad: Would you know if meth was cooked inside your house?
The highly anticipated Breaking Bad movie El Camino story line focusing on drug production is more relevant than ever- with contamination of houses from methamphetamine cooking or smoking an increasing public health problem around the world. Researchers from Flinders University…
Air pollution linked to hair loss, new research reveals
(MADRID, 9 October, 2019) Research presented today at the 28th EADV Congress in Madrid shows, for the first time, that exposure to common air pollutants known as particulate matter (PM) is linked to hair loss in humans. The research was…
Researchers find antibiotic resistant genes prevalent in groundwater
Scholars warn attention needed to make wastewater potable and ensure public safety nationwide against emerging threat of antibiotic resistance