Category: Public health
-
Canada oil sands leak heightens First Nations’ calls to clean up tailings
Photo: Demonstrators rally against Imperial Oil’s ongoing tailings pond leak, in Ottawa By Nia Williams (Reuters) – In early February, Chief Allan Adam of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation in northern Alberta started fielding calls from community members after the provincial regulator revealed toxic wastewater had been leaking for months from a tailings pond at…
-
Water board finds new culprit for cancer-causing chemical released in SLO. What’s next?
Photo: Greg Mortka, left and Mark Nishibayashi install a passive soil gas probe near the airport fire station. Areas of the SLO airport were tested July 26, 2016 for TCE [trichloroethylene] in an effort to determine a source of contamination, hundreds of soil probes collected data. David Middlecamp dmiddlecamp@thetribunenews.com It has been nearly three years…
-
One fish, two fish, redfish: Drug fish
Photo: Andy Distrubell tested this large redfish caught near Anna Maria Island. Photo: Captain David White. A recently released study builds on previous research and leaves no doubt that Florida’s fish have a drug problem. Local anglers and researchers from Florida International University (FIU) joined throngs of recreational fishers last summer in search of the…
-
An aerial fire retardant is widely used in Northern California. Is it harming the environment?
Photo: Russian Riverkeeper’s Birkin Newell surveys Mill Creek and the now regrowing redwoods, Tuesday, April 4, 2023 that dot the fire-scarred landscape, a result of the 2020 Walbridge Fire. Newell is the restoration director of the organization. (Kent Porter / The Press Democrat) 2023 A lawsuit filed by an environmental group claims that aerial drops…
-
Study confirms nitrate can release uranium into groundwater
New research finds that nitrate … can help transport uranium to groundwater — when the nitrate levels exceed the regulatory threshold of 10 parts per million. New research experimentally confirms that nitrate can help transport naturally occurring uranium from the underground to groundwater, according to a press release from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. The new…
