The report titled "Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Health Synthesis," shows how the ecosystem changes are affecting human health including malnutrition of 800 million people, depletion and contamination of water supplies and water-borne infectious diseases....
HUMAN HEALTH UNDER THREAT FROM ECOSYSTEM DEGRADATION THREATS PARTICULARLY ACUTE IN POORER COUNTRIES.The article discusses the report "Ecosystems and Human Well-Being: Health Synthesis" published by the World Health Organization, which describes the complex links between the preservation of healthy and ...
Dryland Salinity and Ecosystem Distress Syndrome: Human Health Implications Clearing of native vegetation for agriculture has left 047 million hectares of southwest Western Australia affected by dryland salinity, and this area may ... A Jardine,P Speldewinde,CP Weinstein - 《Ecohealth》 被引量: 76...
Some Bacteroidetes and other human colonic bacteria can degrade arabinoxylans, common polysaccharides found in dietary fiber. Previous work has identified gene clusters (polysaccharide-utilization loci, PULs) for degradation of simple arabinoxylans. However, the degradation of complex arabinoxylans (containing...
NAIROBI, March 13 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) on Wednesday warned of increased human health risks if no action is taken to curb global environmental degradation. In a statement of an environment report released after a five-year assessment, the UNEP warns that da...
In human studies, varia... Philip,J.,Robbins,... - 《Journal of Toxicology & Environmental Health》 被引量: 302发表: 1986年 Predicting mosquito repellent potency of N,N-diethyl-m-toluamide (DEET) analogs from molecular electronic properties. Specific molecular electronic properties of 30 N,N-...
Human Brain Material Ethical approval for the acquisition and use of human brain material was obtained from the NIH Office of Human Subject Research (Exempt 5480). Human brain tissue derived from four patients with sCJD and two control patients with other non-CJD neurologic disorders were obtained...
Degradation of explosives by nitrate ester reductases. Explosive-contaminated land poses a hazard both to the environment and to human health. Microbial enzymes, either in their native or heterologous hosts, ar... RE Williams,DA Rathbone,PCE Moody,... - 《Biochemical Society Symposium》 被引量:...
health of wetlands that are key to sustaining food, energy and water security. In addition, Mumba said that investments in nature-positive agricultural activities will be key to curbing the siltation of wetlands, which is to blame for the loss of species, including mammals, fish and pollinator...
Its widespread use in agriculture and its potential toxicity to humans from ingestion of CP contaminated food have raised concerns about its risk to health. Human intestinal microflora has the ability to degrade pesticides, but the exact mechanisms involved and the metabolite end-products formed are ...