Study shows industrial hog operations appear to impair health, life quality among neighbors
...500 intensive hog operations, and they are located disproportionately in areas that are poor and nonwhite," Wing said. "The public health and environmental injustice implications of this geographical pattern extend beyond the physiologic impact of airborne emissions to issues of well-water contamination and the negativ...UK researchers discover a molecular cause of spinal cord injuries
...e total financialburden of spinal cord injuries is disproportionately high. The estimated costof spinal cord injuries in the United States was $7.7 billion in 1995, and a27-year-old with complete quadriplegia will incur lifetime costs of about $1million. Apoptosis is a "suicide" process. The dying cell activa...Research Reveals Environmental Injustice In N.C. Communities With Large Hog Farms
...ons that hog operations in North Carolina havebeen disproportionately established in poorer communities across the state andin areas with more non-white residents are accurate, a new University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill study concludes. Funded by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences'Env...Duke Studies Show U.S. Central Plains Vulnerable To Global Warming
...l temperatures. Because climate change may disproportionately affect trees during theirvulnerable early stages as seedlings, graduate student Janneke and Clarkreported to the ESA meeting studies of how climate changes might affect seedgermination. These early studies hint that under global warming some treespec......ne mutant copy of the CCR5 gene are disproportionately represented among long-term nonprogressors. The LIR defines long-term nonprogressors as people who have been HIV-infected for more than seven years, have stable CD4+ T cell counts above 600 ...