Tag: neurotoxin
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Debate flares over how quickly to replace many lead service lines
Workmen prepare to replace older water pipes with a new copper one in Newark, N.J., on Oct. 21, 2021. Seth Wenig/AP With the Environmental Protection Agency’s latest — and strictest — plan to minimize the risk of Americans drinking lead-contaminated water on the horizon, the debate over whether the agency’s proposed rules go too far…
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Lethal cyanobacteria are creeping into rivers—no one knows exactly why
Researcher Hannah Bonner conducts a visual monitoring survey of benthic cyanobacteria in North Creek, a tributary of Utah’s Virgin River. Image credit: Emily Butko (photographer). In the clear shallows of Utah’s Virgin River, a slimy brown glob clings to the streambed. Hannah Bonner stands shin-deep in the water, eyeing the goo. It looks like Microcoleus, a…
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‘It gets worse every day’: why are sea lions and dolphins dying along California’s coast?
In addition to an estimated more than 1,000 sick and dying sea lions, 110 dolphins have also been killed. Photograph: Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute (CIMWI) The unprecedented outbreak has scientists concerned as record number of animals turn up lifeless on beaches On a recent morning on Leadbetter state beach in Santa Barbara, a California Sea Lion…
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Sick sea lions, dolphins overwhelming Southern California rescue organization
Photo: A sick sea lion, possibly suffering from domoic acid toxicity, is seen resting on a California beach in June 2023. (Channel Islands Marine Wildlife Institute) Sickened marine mammals poisoned by an algal bloom in Southern California waters are overwhelming a local rescue organization. Channel Islands Marine & Wildlife Institute responds to beached sea lions…
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1 in 3 children worldwide being poisoned by lead from water, air pollution, UN warns
The file photo shows children play in water pipes at a construction site on the banks of the Yamuna River in the northern Indian city of Allahabad, India. Up to 800 million children around the world are being poisoned by lead from water and air pollution, the United Nations warned Thursday in a special report…
