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Plastic food packaging could cause high blood pressure in children.
Chemicals found in common plastics could cause high blood pressure in children, according to a new study. Flooring, plastic cups, beach balls and plastic packaging contain phthalates that are causing a rise in cases of juvenile high blood pressure, the scientists claim.
London Daily Mail
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Research on microbes points to new tools for conservation.
Improvements in DNA technology now make it possible for biologists to identify every living organism in and around a species. Scientists say this could have profound implications for everything from protecting amphibians from a deadly fungus to reintroducing species into the wild.
Yale Environment 360
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Did my faulty breast implants kill my darling daughter?
As experts warn leaking implants may harm babies, mothers are terrified they have paid a terrible price for their vanity.
London Daily Mail
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Montreal's boil-water warning inflames an already simmering city.
In an extraordinary warning, 1.3 million residents in and around Montreal were told their tap water was unsafe to drink, further eroding the public’s trust in the stewardship of a city mired in infrastructure woes and corruption scandals.
Globe and Mail
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Running shoes leave large carbon footprint, study shows.
Runners tread more heavily on the earth than they may have ever imagined, especially it seems if they are wearing a pair of Chinese-made men's size nine Asics gel Kayanos, according to a team of scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
The Guardian
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In China, food scares put Mao's self-sufficiency goal at risk.
The discovery of dangerous levels of toxic cadmium in rice sold in the southern city of Guangzhou, the latest in a series of food scandals, has piled more pressure on China to clean up its food chain - possibly at the expense of Mao Zedong's cherished goal of self-sufficiency.
Reuters
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What's in your green tea?
A new report by an independent laboratory shows that green tea can vary widely from one cup to the next. Some bottled varieties appear to be little more than sugar water and some green tea leaves, particularly those from China, are contaminated with lead, though the metal does not appear to leach out during the brewing process.
New York Times
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'Universal' flu vaccine effective in animals.
Under the microscope, they look like simple jacks, with eight spikes jutting out of a central ball. But these protein nanoparticles are science's latest weapon against influenza: a new breed of flu vaccine that provides better and broader protection than commercially available ones -- at least in animal tests.
Nature
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Scientists worry about bird flu's potential to mutate.
The H7N9 bird flu appears to be evolving, and could be only a few mutations away from a form that could be passed easily from person to person, according to a new report.
USA Today
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Hunt for 400 as measles outbreak threatens to spread.
A measles outbreak in the mining hub of Moranbah could spread nationwide, with authorities chasing 400 people potentially exposed to the virus who may have flown or driven out of the north Queensland community.
The Australian
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Scientist plays down flu pandemic scaremongering.
A Nobel prize-winning scientist on Tuesday played down“shock-horror scenarios”that a new virus strain will emerge with the potential to kill millions of people.
South African Press Association
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More than half of plant and animal species in UK dying out, says report.
More than half of the plant and animal species in Britain are dying out, according to a report. "It’s not surprising, they’re getting on for a third more people living in this country over the last 50 years, said Sir David Attenborough, who also blamed the use of chemicals on farms.
The Telegraph
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A cooler century? Wait and see.
New research suggesting that the Earth may be warming a little more slowly than expected certainly does not mean climate change is a false alarm, experts say.
Climate News Network
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Heat wave causes power outages, anger in India.
A blistering heat wave has swept across most parts of north and western India, causing massive electricity cuts and leading angry residents to protest and even attack power company officials and property.
Associated Press
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Switch to low-carbon future would save British households£1,600.
Overturning the general consensus that green electricity is more expensive than gas-generated power, a parliamentary advisory committee finds that while "decarbonising" the energy supply will cost more in the next few years, it will start paying handsome dividends after 2030.
The Independent
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World’s largest wave power scheme given go-ahead.
The Scottish Government today gave the green light for the world’s largest wave power scheme, to be developed in the stormy seas off the coast of the Western Isles.
Edinburgh Scotsman
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Swinging voters swing on climate change.
Swinging voters are more easily swayed on the causes of climate change than their Left or Right counterparts, who are rusted on to their attitudes, according to a US study. And what caused them to swing in the breeze was little more than the previous few days' or weeks' weather.
The Australian
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Thawing tundra soils could produce lower CO2 emissions than previously thought - study.
Researchers have uncovered a mechanism in the Alaskan tundra that doesn't seem to follow the climate change script for soil carbon.
ClimateWire
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Shale gas investments 'could be worth£4bn a year to UK economy.'
Investments in shale gas drilling could yield an industry worth nearly£4bn a year to the UK economy and create more than 70,000 jobs, according to a new report from the Institute of Directors, becoming a "new North Sea" energy business in the process.
The Guardian
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Pioneering wave power farm renews green energy hope.
Wave energy hasn't had a great time of it in recent years. Despite advances in research, getting wave power up and running in any meaningful commercial sense has not been very successful–and that's putting it mildly.
New Scientist
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Blue Flag awards given to 55 beaches in England.
More than 50 English beaches have met tough new E.U. standards to receive Blue Flag awards, recognising their high standards and water quality.
BBC
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Horsemeat scandal: Review of official response in Wales.
The way officials reacted to the horsemeat scandal in Wales is to be reviewed, said the minister for natural resources and food.
BBC
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How genomics solved the mystery of Ireland's great famine.
An international group of plant pathologists has solved a historical mystery behind Ireland's Great Famine. Scientists have known that a funguslike organism c was responsible for the potato blight that plagued Ireland starting in the 1840s. But there are many different strains.
National Public Radio
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Kuwait considers special Parliamentary session on pollution.
Speaker of Parliament Ali Al-Rashid has reiterated everything is moving in the right direction in terms of relations between the Parliament and the government. He added when lawmakers use their constitutional tools‘it cannot be described as political crises’.
Arab Times
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High pesticide levels found in local produce in Lebanon.
The Consumer Protection Department of the Economy and Trade Ministry reawakened old food concerns Wednesday, warning shoppers that recent tests showed signs of pesticide overuse in locally grown fruits and vegetables.
Beirut Daily Star
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Miners Vale, Rio Tinto accused of neglecting displaced Mozambicans.
Human Rights Watch accused Mozambique's government and foreign mining companies on Thursday of "serious shortcomings" in resettling communities to make way for coal mines, leaving thousands without proper homes, food or sources of income.
Reuters
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Stricken Japan nuke plant struggles to keep staff.
Keeping the meltdown-stricken Fukushima nuclear plant in northeastern Japan in stable condition requires a cast of thousands, but the plant's operator is struggling to find enough workers—a trend that many expect to worsen and hamper progress in the decades-long effort to safely decommission it.
Associated Press
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Cesium levels in water, plankton baffle scientists.
Plankton and seawater sampled at 10 points less than a year after the Fukushima meltdowns found concentrations of radioactive cesium were highest at different locations in the Pacific, puzzling scientists.
Japan Times
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Farmers plant rice near doomed Fukushima plant.
Farmers have resumed planting rice for market only 15 kilometres (nine miles) from Japan's crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, a local official said Wednesday.
Agence France-Presse
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Japan nuclear regulator says plant sits on fault line.
Japan's nuclear regulator on Wednesday accepted an expert panel's report that an active earthquake fault line runs directly under an idled plant in western Japan, a decision that complicates the government's drive to resume wider use of nuclear power to generate electricity.
Wall Street Journal
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