Smokeless tobacco more effective than cigarettes for delivering dangerous carcinogens into the body
...ess tobacco manufacturers are forbidden by federal law from claiming that smokeless tobacco is a safer alternative to smoking, Hecht said. That does not prevent them from advancing the general concept that snuff can be used as a substitute for cigarettes, especially in places, like an office setting, whe...Nanowaste needs attention of EPA, industry and investors
...tion of Nanotechnologies, written by environmental law experts Linda Breggin and John Pendergrass of the ...nity are forced to respond to uncertainties in the law and its interpretation without any guidance. Moreover, we must take a lifecycle approach to managing...Germany's embryo protection law is 'killing embryos rather than protecting them'
...ead of preserving life, Germanys embryo protection law has had the unintended consequence of increasing t...tive of the German IVF registry has called for the law to be changed urgently to ensure that this situation does not continue. The German embryo protecti...Europe struggles to meet the challenges posed by PGD patients travelling abroad
... Member States. Mr Lawford Davies, who lectures in law and medicine at the Institute for Human Genetics at Newcastle University and is a visiting research fellow at Durham University Law School, UK, is a co-author of the report and he focused on the legal, ethical and regulatory aspects of the research i...Los Alamos National Laboratory making progress in Groundwater Protection Program
...ew Mexico state law, is a work in progress. State law says the laboratory must evaluate and, if necessary, remediate contamination at LANL by 2015. The laboratory's interim plan for monitoring groundwater generally followed good scientific research practice, the committee said. But steps should be t...'Dutch Nobel Prize' for 4 top Dutch researchers
...opment and promotion of international and European law and has developed groundbreaking visions for the governance of international organisations such as the European Union. Prof. M. (Marcel) Dicke, ecological entomologist at Wageningen University. Dicke discovered, for example, that in response to in...Study warns deep-sea mining may pose serious threat to fragile marine ecosystems
...oit its own resources, international environmental law decrees that it cannot damage the environment beyond its boundaries. While studies of proposed undersea manganese mining in the equatorial region of the Pacific found the risks to outweigh the benefits, says Halfar, there have been no independent i...Legal ruling may put endangered species in danger
...ophers protesting the ruling say that the original law defined an endangered species as one "at risk of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of its range." "It is clear that Congress intended 'range' to be the historic or former range of the animal," said John A.Vucetich, an assistant pro......ical cost. According to common sense and a classic law of fluid mechanics, it's just plain hard to suck thick, viscous nectars up through a long straw. Now, Brendan Borrell at the University of California, Berkeley has confirmed this prediction for the first time: orchid bees with long tongues suck up th...Forest elephants at risk from the illegal ivory trade
...Preventing further declines will require beefed-up law enforcement to stop poaching and rein in the illegal ivory trade, carefully regulated road-building to preserve contiguous forest, and collaborations with logging and mining companies to reduce their impacts on protected areas and to improve ecosyste...Plastic that degrades in seawater could be boon for cruise industry and others
... hurdles to overcome, since international maritime law currently forbids disposal of plastics at sea. ...Gene hunters, patent prospectors leave indigenous communities in Pacific feeling besieged, betrayed
...atest genetic technologies and intellectual patent law has made the region a major target for commercial 'gene' hunters or bio-prospectors, she says, likening gene pirates to the oceans bottom feeders. "In South Pacific cultures a plant is a living ancestor and even a drop of human blood retains its l...Lifting Chinese tiger trade ban a death sentence for wild tigers say WWF and TRAFFIC
...tutes for tiger medicines to severe punishment for law breakers have been effective. According to WWF a...nsumer in tiger parts. Together with international law under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), t...Thinking big about things small
... Mr. Greenwood, who is currently a partner in the law firm Ropes & Gray, worked for EPA for over 16 years. He held a variety of senior positions in the Office of General Counsel, managing legal issues in areas as diverse as pesticides, toxic chemicals, hazardous waste management, Superfund, and environm...Sustainability forum speakers include ex-governor
...olland & Knight LLP, one of the world's 15 largest law firms. The Florida Department of Environmental...h fellowship in waste management and environmental law at Imperial College, London, and is a visiting lecturer at Brunel University (U.K.). She is editor o...Change in webcast time for Wednesday event on NIOSH Nanotechnology Research Center progress report
...upational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is mandated by law to conduct research and develop guidance on worker safety and health. With limited resources over the past two years, NIOSHworking in collaboration with partners in other federal agencies, countries, academia, industry, labor and NGOshas been conduct...African carnage -- 1 year's seized ivory likely came from 23,000 elephants
...es at the UW are working with other scientists and law enforcement agencies, primarily Interpol, to track the source of poached ivory. In June 2002 authorities in Singapore seized a 20-foot container packed with 6.5 tons of contraband ivory bound for the Far East from Malawi. It was the second-largest se...Genetic hearing loss may be reversible without gene therapy
...universal newborn hearing screening is mandated by law [including Georgia]." In people without congenital hearing loss, connexin26 and connexin30 work together to form the cochlea's hybrid junction gaps, which facilitate intercellular communication. But when one of the proteins is missing, the hybr...Understanding occupational safety and health issues of nanotechnology
...upational Safety and Health (NIOSH) is mandated by law to conduct research and develop guidance on worker safety and health. With limited resources over the past two years, NIOSHworking in collaboration with partners in other federal agencies, countries, academia, industry, labor and NGOshas been conduct......ter reversed his conviction on a technicality, the law lingered on the books, joined by later laws promoting "scientific creationism," and, most recently, "intelligent design." The battle to keep religiously based explanations of the history of lifeespecially human lifeout of the science curriculum cont...