Mercury is also used in extracting gold. For this reason, gold extraction has caused the death of fish in the Danube and the Amazon. Mercury contamination has reached the headlines; for example, because of the Japanese Minamata catastrophe (described in section 1.1). The catastrophe was largely...
“Silent Spring” hit bookstores in 1962, sparking worries about the potential risks of pesticides used on food. Author and environmental activist Rachel Carson called for an end to the practice of using DDT as apesticide on food crops. ...
The critical parameter of temperature was used to make projections for 2 °C and 4 °C increases in the current climate. Temperature alone was used because it influences adult survival, the lengths of time between obtaining a bloodmeal to developing an egg batch, the EIP of the virus in ...
Organiphosphate Pesticides and Other Pesticides and Herbicides – Atrazine, Glyphosate, DDT etc. –These neurotoxic organophosphate compounds were originally produced by the Nazis in huge quantities for chemical warfare during World War II, but thankfully were never used. However, these same chemistry ...
The Declaration of independence was the very foundation for the constitution, because it explained and explored the ideas we had as a country and how we wanted things done. It was originally by Thomas Jefferson to state our grievances and how we wanted to break away from Britain to become our...
During the early twentieth century, advances in chemistry produced a battery of pesticides that were originally hailed for raising crop yields and controlling disease-carrying insects. The most famous of these pesticides was DDT. DDT’s discoverer, Paul Muller, even won the Nobel Prize. However, ...
I think the main prevention method for malaria in Africa is a pesticide called DDT. The pesticide is dangerous and banned in most countries. But they still use it there because it's cheap. Of course it's damaging the ecosystem, the animals as well as human health in the process. ...
The term “genetically modified organism” (GMO) was originally used by the molecular biology scientific community to denote a living organism that had been genetically modified by inserting a gene from an unrelated species. Incorporation of genes from an unrelated species does not occur in nature ...
Monsanto was most commonly known forproducing genetically modified (GMO) seedsand the herbicide glyphosate known as “Roundup.” They produce cotton, soy, corn, alfalfa, sorghum, and canola, which are all sprayed with Roundup to manage the surrounding weeds that may otherwise reduce how much of ...
in an effort to push responsibility for the claims to Montrose. Their argument was that pollution was not "sudden and accidental" and had been going on for several years. Hence, they were not liable for it. After several cases left the insurance companies responsible for cleanup coverage, insu...