Earth
We summarize the week's scientific breakthroughs every Thursday.
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‘Science fraud’ alleged in urban lead incident
Virginia engineer charges data were buried or manipulated to hide the lead-poisoning implications to children of water contamination in the nation's capital.
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Toxic Lead: Watch Out for Schools
Schools may present the "worst case" for encountering lead-tainted water, an engineer reports finding.
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Water-cleanup experiment caused lead poisoning
Featured blog: Lead concentrations spiked in many children living in the nation's capital after the local water authority altered the treatment used to disinfect drinking water.
- Health & Medicine
Overly Hungry for Frogs
Frogs are shipped half-way round the world to sate human appetites for this lean white meat.
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Oldest zircon fine-tunes history of moon’s formation
Mineral bit provides clues about when our cosmic companion formed its crust.
- Ecosystems
Pacific Northwest salmon poisoning killer whales
A protected population of resident orcas around Vancouver Island and Puget Sound is the planet’s most PCB-contaminated mammals, says one researcher.
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- Humans
Life expectancy up when cities clean the air
Study shows people live longer after fine-particulate air pollution is reduced.
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Antarctica is getting warmer too
Satellite data show most of the continent is following worldwide trend.
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Clearing some air over warming in Europe
A decline in fog and haze clears the air but also fuels 20 percent of the warming in Europe, a new study concludes.
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Top of Everest is an ozone overdose
Wafts from lower atmosphere, polluted regions bathe the peak in amounts that exceed EPA limits.
