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PARTNERSHIP CALLS
CHE Partnership Call:
12/8/09: MP3 recording available - To Ban or Not to Ban: A Review of Atrazine from Both Sides of the Atlantic 11/11/09: MP3 recording available - Navigating the Scientific Evidence to Ensure Prevention
CHE WORKING GROUP CALLS
CHE-AK call: Environmental Contaminants and Reproductive Health: Reasons for Concern:
March 30, 2010
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Asthma: Newsfeed
10 Mar Health and life insurers grapple with climate effects. Biting bugs are buzzing northward and asthma has spread like a dust cloud, but there are deep divisions about how concerned health and life insurers should be about disease and death caused by climate change. 10 Mar San Feancisco supervisors vote to get tougher on smoking. Smoking soon will be snuffed out at sidewalk cafes, restaurant patios, movie and ATM lines, bingo halls and the common areas of housing complexes. 9 Mar Low birth weight may affect adult lung health. In a study of 627 Chinese men and women in their 40s, researchers found that participants' scores on standard lung-function tests generally lined up with their birth weights. 9 Mar Sydney fails again on air quality: Public transport key. Greens MP and health spokesperson Lee Rhiannon says the government will continue to miss targets set to reduce dangerous ozone levels unless the State and Federal governments invest in quality public transport services to get Sydneysiders out of their cars. 9 Mar Pollution researcher named top emerging scientist. Wellington doctoral candidate John Watt was today named the top emerging scientist in the Prime Minister's science awards for his research aimed at reducing vehicle exhaust pollution. 9 Mar Cars threaten to reverse air quality improvements. The New South Wales Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water says Sydney's long-term record of improvements in air quality is threatened by increased vehicle emissions. 8 Mar Kids born via IVF mostly faring well into adulthood. Young adults who were conceived through in-vitro fertilization are doing as well as the average young American as far as physical health, though their rates of certain psychological problems appear elevated, a new study finds. 8 Mar Haifa pollution study stalls after factories renege. A Technion project to study the health hazards of the Haifa Bay pollution has hit trouble after local factories reneged on a cooperation agreement. 8 Mar Ozone levels to worsen in Australia over next 15 years. Unless additional measures are taken to reduce emissions, population growth will boost smog, which could "significantly worsen Sydney's air quality, and potentially expose more people to ozone concentrations." 8 Mar How does ozone fit? You might have heard of ozone but how does it fit in to the air pollution problem? 8 Mar Propane buses, solar panels and environmental education. An ambitious sustainability program has been implemented to reduce the L.A. school district?s environmental impact and, in the process, save money, improve student performance and serve as a hands-on teaching tool. 7 Mar LAUSD's 'green' resolution helps trim water, energy use and costs. The Los Angeles Unified School District has been working to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions and its energy and water use by 10% from 2007 levels by 2013. It also will install 50 megawatts of solar photovoltaic arrays. 7 Mar Fat American children: many causes, a lifetime of effects. The percentage of American children who are overweight or obese has been growing for decades, and now nearly one in three has a body mass index that's greater than normal. 6 Mar AQMD cracks down on ports. Despite a landmark clean-truck plan and strict anti-smog measures aimed at ships and trains, air quality cops are considering "backstop" regulations to ensure port pollution doesn't grow in coming years. 6 Mar Forest burn could harm local air quality. The Mark Twain National Forest near Bradleyville will conduct a 7,000-acre prescribed burn that could continue through today, according to a news release from the Springfield-Greene County Health Department. |