How 80,000 chemicals are waging sex war on us
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Issues relating to the Academy of Medical Sciences' meeting on the possible effects of chemicals on the endocrine system are examined in the light of changes that have been witnessed in nature, such as barnacles undergoing sex reversal, a skewing of the male-to-female ratio of alligators and male birds taking over female nest-sitting duties. It is argued that the increasing levels of chemicals in the atmosphere are having an adverse affect on all of nature, humanity included, with some arguing that there may be no safe level at which people can be exposed to some of the endocrine-disrupting chemicals that are currently around.
Publication Name: Times Higher Education Supplement
Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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Scientists add weight to anti-smoking campaign
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Dimitris Kotzias, head of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre Environment Institute, is leading an investigation into the quality of the air breathed by people indoors. The work commenced after Kotzias noticed that while the majority of air quality legislation deals with the quality of air outdoors, most people spend about 90% of their time indoors. Kotzias notes that before a community policy on indoor air quality can be formulated, there needs to be some proper scientific research done. The research has already revealed that cigarettes are an exceptionally powerful form of indoor pollutant.
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Subject: Education
ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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Soil pollutants risk human resistance
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The European Commission has launched a research project designed to combat what could be Europe's most dangerous source of pollution, the accidental release into the environment of 5,000 tonnes/yr of biologically active chemicals. The commission became alarmed about the release of these chemicals because of the danger that they could result in bacteria developing a resistance to antibiotics, and that this resistance could then be passed on to bacteria that is present in the human body.
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ISSN: 0049-3929
Year: 2003
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