Suicide and ambient temperature in East Asian countries: A time-stratified...
A limited literature base suggests that ambient temperature contributes to suicide, with studies typically focused on a single nation using temporal and spatial aggregated data. The researchers evaluated
View ArticleUse of a cumulative exposure index to estimate the impact of tap-water lead...
Drinking water is recognized as a source of lead (Pb) exposure. However, questions remain about the impact of chronic exposure to lead-contaminated water on internal dose. The objective of the study was
View ArticleAssociations of Pregnancy Outcomes and PM2.5 in a National Canadian Study
Numerous studies have examined associations between air pollution and pregnancy outcomes but most have been restricted to urban populations living near monitors. The objective of the study was to examine
View ArticleSynergistic and antagonistic mutation responses of human MCL-5 cells to...
Chemical carcinogens such as benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) and 2-amino-1-methyl-6-phenylimidazo[4,5-b]pyridine (PhIP) may contribute to the etiology of human diet-associated cancer. Individually, these are...
View ArticleExposure to road traffic noise and behavioral problems in 7-year-old...
Exposure to traffic noise has been associated with adverse effects on neuropsychological outcomes in children, but findings with regard to behavioral problems are inconsistent. The researchers...
View ArticleUnderstanding the radioactive ingrowth and decay of naturally occurring...
The economic value of unconventional natural gas resources has stimulated rapid globalization of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. However, natural radioactivity found in the large volumes
View ArticleAmbient heat and Sudden Infant Death: A case-crossover study spanning 30...
Climate change may lead to more severe and extreme heat waves in the future, but its potential impact on sudden infant death—a leading cause of infant mortality—is unclear. The researchers sought to...
View ArticleAir Pollution and mortality in seven million adults: The Dutch Environmental...
The aim of the study was to evaluate the associations between long-term exposure to air pollution and non accidental and cause-specific mortality in the Netherlands based on existing national databases.
View ArticleA second life for scraps: Making biogas from food waste
In 2010 an estimated 31% of the food in U.S. stores and homes went uneaten, and Americans shipped approximately 34 million tons of food waste to landfills. When food decomposes under anaerobic...
View ArticleTraffic-related air pollution and Parkinson’s disease in Denmark: A...
Very little is currently known about air pollutants’ adverse effects on neurodegenerative diseases even though recent studies have linked particulate exposures to brain pathologies associated with...
View ArticleOrganic food consumption during pregnancy and hypospadias and cryptorchidism...
The etiologies of the male urogenital anomalies hypospadias and cryptorchidism remain unclear. It has been suggested that maternal diet and environmental contaminants may affect the risk of these
View ArticlePerceived neighborhood environmental attributes associated with walking and...
Prevalence of walking and cycling for transport is low, varying greatly across countries. Few studies have examined neighborhood perceptions related to walking and cycling for transport in different
View ArticleClimatic, meteorological and topographical causes of the 16–17 June 2013...
The devastating flood episode (16–17 June 2013) at Kedarnath (Uttrakhand, India), caused a huge loss of lives and loss of physical/material wealth. To understand this catastrophic event,...
View ArticleSatellite-based spatiotemporal trends in PM2.5 concentrations: China, 2004–2013
Three decades of rapid economic development is causing severe and widespread PM2.5 pollution in China. However, research on the health impacts of PM2.5 exposure has been hindered by limited historical
View ArticleMultiple trigger points for quantifying heat-health impacts: New evidence...
Extreme heat is a public health challenge. The scarcity of directly comparable studies on the association of heat with morbidity and mortality and the inconsistent identification of threshold temperatures
View ArticleTraffic-related air pollution and dementia incidence in northern Sweden: A...
Exposure to ambient air pollution is suspected to cause cognitive effects, but a prospective cohort is needed to study exposure to air pollution at the home address and the incidence of dementia. The
View ArticleAssociations between selected xenobiotics and antinuclear antibodies in the...
The study investigated exposure to individual environmental chemicals and selected mixtures in relation to the presence of antinuclear antibodies (ANA), a widely used biomarker of autoimmunity, in a
View ArticleEffects of in utero exposure to arsenic during the second half of gestation...
Mice exposed to high levels of arsenic in utero are more susceptible to tumors such as hepatic and pulmonary carcinoma when they reach adulthood. However, effects of in utero arsenic exposure on general
View ArticleEndocrine-disrupting chemicals and oil and natural gas operations: Potential...
Hydraulic fracturing technologies, developed over the last 65 years, have only recently been combined with horizontal drilling to unlock oil and gas reserves previously deemed inaccessible. While these
View ArticleGoing deep- Cautious steps toward seabed mining
The deep ocean was once assumed to be lifeless and barren. Today we know that even the deepest waters teem with living creatures, some of them thought to be little changed from when life itself first
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