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Toxic air pollution particles found in human brains
2016-09-05 21:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Toxic nanoparticles from air pollution have been discovered in human brains in abundant quantities, a newly published study reveals. The detection of the particles, in brain tissue from 37 people, raises concerns because recent research has suggested links between these magnetite particles and Alzheimers disease, while air pollution has been shown to significantly increase the risk of the disease. However the new work remains a long way from proving the air pollution particles cause or exacerbate...
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Melting Greenland Ice Sheet To Release Cold WarEra Toxic Wastes Buried By US Military
2016-08-07 07:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Clean Technica: The portion of the Greenland ice sheet covering the Cold Warera US military base known as Camp Century - also known as "the city under the ice" - could start to melt by the end of the century, according to new research from CIRES (a partnership between NOAA and the University of Colorado Boulder) and others. When Camp Century does melt, there will likely be significant quantities of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), sewage, radioactive coolant, wastewater, and diesel fuel, amongst other things,...
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How to deal with toxic waste buried in Greenland's rapidly melting ice caps
2016-08-05 15:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Monitor: Climate change is bringing a lot of first-time environmental challenges, as well as many unprecedented political challenges. And one such climate change challenge could be particularly political. Greenland's ice sheet is melting at a rapid pace. According to a new study published Wednesday in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, this significant snow and ice loss could cause buried toxic waste to resurface unexpectedly. Camp Century was a US military base built on and under the Greenland...
Melting ice may release toxic waste
2016-08-05 13:47:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Global warming could release radioactive waste stored in an abandoned Cold War-era US military camp deep under Greenlands ice caps if a thaw continues to spread in coming decades, scientists said on Friday. Camp Century was built in northwest Greenland in 1959 as part of US research into the feasibility of nuclear missile launch sites in the Arctic, the University of Zurich said in a statement. Staff left gallons of fuel and an unknown amount of low-level radioactive coolant there when the base...
Toxic algae bloom closes Utah lake, sickens more than 100 people
2016-07-24 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: A huge toxic algae bloom in Utah has closed one of the largest freshwater lakes west of the Mississippi River, sickening more than 100 people and leaving farmers scrambling for clean water for days during the hottest part of the year. The bacteria commonly known as blue-green algae has spread rapidly to cover almost all of 150-square-mile Utah Lake, turning the water bright, anti-freeze green with a pea soup texture and leaving scummy foam along the shore. "It smells like something is rotting,"...
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