1a-c). Contributing risk factors include a lack of adequate antimalarials and/or insecticide-treated bed nets (ITNs)14, child growth failure (CGF)15, micronutrient deficiency16, poor water quality17, inadequate sanitation and hygiene18,19, exposure to household air pollution20, and poor vaccine...
and heavy metals have higher risks of PD. Studies conducted on highly populated urban areas have also found significant correlations between industrial airborne heavy metal pollution and ambient air pollution from traffic, and an augmented chance of PD onset10. Other investigations have associated ...
That value-extraction process, like crude oil, can be dirty and cause primary as well as secondary “pollution” that may be costly, not to mention time-consuming, to get rid off. Over the last couple of years some critical voices have started to question the environmental impact of our ...
During the year, we also continued to our "Be the Ocean Keeper" campaign in conjunction with Davines Asia to raise awareness of the issue of plastic pollution in the oceans and the need to preserve the largest ecosystem on the earth. Our call to action is to encourage more people to join...
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and "What are point and non-point sources pollution?". A section will also be presented on the role of river floodplain wetlands as key ecosystems important for regulation of the water, sediments and nutrients retention, and as a natural buffering system that can be considered as a tool for...
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Yadav read these controversial words, back in India, the country's capital city was suffering from the worst air pollution in more than 6 years, forcing the government to close schools and to warn people to stay indoors (BBC, 2021). Although crop burning and the smoke from the annual ...
178 Corals in a Changing World 1. Introduction 1.1. The emergence of novel ecosystems Coral reefs across regional to global scales are showing unequivocal signs of decline. The long- term combined impacts of local human-driven factors, such as land-based source pollution (LBSP), water quality ...
More than that, those which are independent of wheel/rail adhesion improve safety by enabling shorter stopping distances when applied by giving a reduced dependency between stopping distance and adverse adhesion conditions caused by moisture, ice, leaves or other pollution on the top of the rails, ...