Category: water
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Can oil spills cause heart disease?
New research in the February 14 issue of Science could greatly reduce the amount of oil that is considered “safe” in water. Researchers from the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and Stanford University were looking at the long term effects of the Deepwater Horizon spill on fish. Specifically what they wanted to know was why…
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Breaking Links: Thursday, November 29
David Akin is collecting articles on water and the looming crisis’ that surround it. “A typical Westerner consumes, directly and through thirsty products like food, about a hundred times their own weight in water every day. That is why some of the great rivers of the world, such as the Nile, Indus, Yellow River and…