USDA scientists monitored a 10,000-cow Idaho dairy for a year and calculated daily averages of 3,575 pounds of ammonia, 33,092 pounds of methane and 409 pounds of nitrous oxide. Open lots accounted for most of the spring emissions.
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Environment
Farming, agriculture and the environmental side of the food system.
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Environment
Organic pollutants may increase fetus' risk for neural tube defects (PR)
Tong Zhu's team compared placentas from 80 Chinese fetuses and newborns with neural tube defects against 50 healthy newborns. Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and pesticides ran higher in the affected placentas, and above-average PAH levels went with 4.5 times the risk.
Environment
EWG Meat Eater’s Guide Spotlights Beef’s Outsize Carbon Footprint (PR)
The Environmental Working Group released a Meat Eater's Guide to Climate Change and Health covering every stage from production to waste disposal. It calculates that if everyone in the US ate no meat or cheese one day a week, the yearly effect would equal taking 7.6 million cars off the road.
Environment
Movie makers take cigarettes out of scenes
CDC counted 595 tobacco incidents in youth-rated movies last year, down 71.6 percent from 2,093 in 2005. Studios with published policies cut incidents by 95.8 percent on average, against 41.7 percent at companies without them.
Environment
Beef tainted with radioactive substance in Japan
Media reports say meat from 11 cows at a farm near the Fukushima exclusion zone contained caesium at six times the legal limit and was shipped nationwide and may already have been eaten. The farmer reportedly said he fed the animals straw polluted with fallout.
Environment
The "Safe" Toxin that's Dangerously Profitable - and How to Stop it
Charlie Brown of the World Alliance for Mercury-Free Dentistry describes the campaign to end mercury amalgam fillings, now centered on a United Nations mercury treaty being negotiated across five sessions that began in June 2010.
Environment
Worse than Cigarettes? The Silent Enemy Harming Your Health Today...
Mercola interviews Vickie Warren, former US Bau-Biologie director, who walks through five everyday sources of electromagnetic field exposure, beginning with electric and magnetic fields, and describes the health problems she attributes to each.
Agriculture
Chesapeake Bay Pesticides: Some Diminish, Some Persist
USDA chemists sampled air and rain at three Maryland and Delaware sites from 2000 to 2003. Nearly all air samples held lindane and chlordane products, with dieldrin and DDE highest. Some traced to local soils, but most lindane, heptachlor and many chlordanes came from over 60 miles away.
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Where to get news - newsletter from EWG
An Environmental Working Group newsletter recommending Environmental Health News, founded by scientist J. Peterson Myers, and its sister site The Daily Climate. Both send free daily digests, around 150 stories a day on toxics, food safety, climate and other environmental risks.
Environment
Summertime Safety
Summer health tips from the CDC: use a meat thermometer and cook ground beef to 160F, move cooked meat to a clean platter, and refrigerate leftovers promptly. The piece also warns about binge drinking, which more than 15 percent of U.S. adults report.
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Fireworks Safety
CPSC chairman Inez Tenenbaum warns that fireworks incidents, especially those involving illegal fireworks, can be fatal. The agency's tips: keep children away from fireworks and from sparklers, which burn at about 2,000 degrees, never relight a dud, and keep water close by.
Environment
Flaxseed Cuts Death Risk from Radiation Exposure
Mice fed a flaxseed-supplemented diet starting three weeks before a high x-ray dose were less likely to die from it and suffered less lung damage, and the diet still cut mortality when begun within weeks after exposure, a BioMed Central Cancer study reports.
Environment
UFO Mothership & Fleet Over London UK 24th June 2011 (Credit alymc01) [HD]
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Environment
Safety Tips: Fireworks
Guidance for fireworks season: favour professional public displays, check that consumer fireworks are legal locally, keep water or an extinguisher at hand, never lean over a dud, and supervise children. June is Fireworks Safety Month.
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Flame retardants boost diabetes mellitus risk
A study of 118 postmenopausal women who had worked at a capacitor manufacturer found their PCB exposure correlated significantly with a history of diabetes, though not with insulin resistance among those without the disease. Earlier Taiwanese work found a similar link.
Environment
Beware -- Some 'Green' Cleaners are Deceptive and Toxic
Simple Green is sold as non-toxic, but its safety data sheet lists the petrochemical solvent 2-Butoxyethanol, which the EU classes as harmful and California lists as hazardous. Reported effects run from sore throat and skin irritation to liver, kidney and blood damage on chronic exposure.
Environment
Portable pools pose a problem for parents
A Pediatrics analysis of CPSC data from 2001 to 2009 documented 209 fatal and 35 nonfatal submersions in portable pools. Ninety-four percent involved children under 5, 73 percent happened in the child's own yard and 81 percent in summer. Researchers want fencing, alarms and covers for these pools.
Environment
Be Aware: These Cell Phones Can Emit 28 Times More Radiation
The WHO's International Agency for Research on Cancer classified cell phones as possible cancer-causing agents, citing some evidence of a link to gliomas and acoustic neuromas. Critics quoted say the finding leaned on the Interphone study completed in 2004 and understates today's usage patterns.
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