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Ecological Russian Roulette
NADVOITSY, Russia – The children of this town learn early not to smile. When they do, they show a ghastly array of blackened, splintered, rotting stumps where milk-white teeth might have been. An environmental plague has struck this northern land of lakes, no longer pristine, and thinning pine forests. The children of Nadvoitsy are its […]
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Fluoride transport in Arabidopsis thaliana plants is impaired in Fluoride EXporter (FEX) mutants..
Introduction Fluoride (F–) is abundant in the environment, but is toxic to plant and animal life. Fluoride is naturally released into the biosphere by weathering of fluoride-containing minerals and from volcanoes and marine aerosols (Symonds et al. 1988; Weinstein and Davison 2004). Fluoride is released by coal burning and manufacturing processes involving metal smelting or […]
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Exposure to environmental neurotoxic substances and neurodevelopment in children from Latin America and the Caribbean.
Introduction Environmental neurotoxicants are pollutants that can negatively affect many cellular metabolic-processes through different pathways: neuroendocrine/thyroid hormone disruption (Pb, methyl-Hg, organochlorines, and polychlorinated biphenyls-PCB), oxidative stress (Pb, methyl-Hg, organochlorines, and chlorpyrifos), dopamine dysfunction (Pb, methyl-Hg, As, chlorpyrifos, pyrethroids, and organochlorines) (Heyer and Meredith, 2017; Rock and Patisaul, 2018). Pistollato et al. (2020) studied neurotoxic substances […]
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Biomonitoring and assessment of airborne fluoride using Lolium perenne near a phosphate fertilizer production facility.
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Effects of soil fluoride pollution on wheat growth and biomass production, leaf injury index, powdery mildew infestation and trace metal uptake.
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Biomonitoring and assessment of airborne fluoride using Lolium perenne near a phosphate fertilizer production facility.
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Juneau: Free thinkers abandon fluoride in water
When it comes to water quality, the people of Juneau are among the most informed in the state. In October, capital city residents voted to ban fluoride from their water supply. Clean-water voters succeeded (61 percent to 37 percent) despite the American Dental Association spending $164,000 to promote the mass-medication scheme. The group advocating to […]
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Eastalco Aluminum Sued Over Fluoride Emissions
Wearing quilted jackets, string ties and suspenders, the dairy farmers who sat in a Frederick County courtroom last week are not anyone’s image of political activists. But they are part of a new group of environmentalists: those who claim that industrial pollution damages their livelihoods as well as the quality of their lives. The dairy […]
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West Lothian UK: MP demands apology from council
A WEST Lothian MP says the people of Armadale deserve an apology from West Lothian Council for failing to properly protect their health from pollution coming from Giscol Brickworks. Linlithgow MP Michael Connarty says he has uncovered a letter from June 1992 where the local authority, which at that time was West Lothian District Council, […]
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Environmental Pollution, Oxidative Stress and Thioretinaco Ozonide: Effects of Glyphosate, Fluoride and Electromagnetic Fields on Mitochondrial Dysfunction in Carcinogenesis, Atherogenesis and Aging.