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Agrochemicals Linked to Health Problems in Argentina
2013-10-21 19:28:50| Chemicals - Topix.net
Argentine farmworker Fabian Tomasi was never trained to handle pesticides. His job was to keep the crop-dusters flying by filling their tanks as quickly as possible, although it often meant getting drenched in poison.
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Fracking linked to rape, meth addiction, and STDs
2013-10-21 16:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Yet another reason to hate fracking: Its connected with an increase in STDs, car crashes, drug-related crimes, and sexual assault in areas where the oil and gas industry sets up shop. Or in Vice-speak, fracking workers have an insatiable appetite for raw sex and hard drugs." Writes Peter Rugh on Vice: Critics of fracking have compared it to raping the Earth, but where drilling has spread, literal rape has followed. Violence against woman in fracking boomtowns in North Dakota and Montana has...
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Tanning gene linked to increased risk of testicular cancer
2013-10-19 07:45:41| Biotech - Topix.net
A gene important in skin tanning has been linked to higher risk for testicular cancer in white men, according to a study led by scientists from the U.S. National Institutes of Health and the University of Oxford in England.
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Heard Off the Street: Insider trading, CEO pay linked
2013-10-13 06:35:00| Food - Topix.net
Two of the biggest hot-button issues for investors, regulators and public companies are executive pay and insider trading.
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Spanish coast hit by tremors may be linked to huge offshore gas storage plant
2013-10-04 15:35:56| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Indendent: Thousands of Spanish homeowners on a 200km stretch of Mediterranean coastline have suffered a month of sleepless nights after a wave of minor earthquakes. Many people, including the countrys Minister of Industry, say a massive offshore gas storage plant could be to blame. More than 300 earthquakes, some of them as strong as 4.2 on the Richter scale, have struck the region of northern Valencia and the southern tip of Catalonia, which is not known for seismic activity. More than 20 quakes struck...
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