Siberian forest fires partly to blame for Seattle area violating EPA ozone limit
...search shows. And the rapidly changing climate in northern latitudes makes it likely such fires will have inc...ious research has suggested that as climate warms, northern temperate-zone forests are likely to become drier during the spring and summer, with snow melting ea...Envisat Symposium report day 2: GMES turns science to services
...le ships navigating through ice-infested waters in northern Canada rely on radar data supplied by another such project." European firefighters base their preventative activities on forest fire risk maps based on data from space, as governments and organisations concerned with food security can rely on early...The art of happiness...Is volunteering the blueprint for bliss?
...London suburbs such as Luton and Waltham Forest or northern cities like Salford, Carlisle and Hull were the least satisfied with their lot, recording the lowest scores in the life satisfaction stakes. The Home Secretary, the Rt Hon David Blunkett comments "Volunteering is a growing activity. Governme...Certain types of schizophrenia may be linked to summer birth
...s analyzed published and unpublished data from the northern hemisphere on studies of season of birth with info... pooled analysis of data from six countries in the northern hemisphere showed a significant association between deficit schizophrenia and summer birth," write t...Ovarian cancer rates across Europe
...er trends found that while it is declining in most northern European countries, it is increasing in a few sout...incidence, and especially mortality rates, in most northern countries, particularly in younger age groups. In southern and eastern European countries, however, ...Columbia Univ. Medical Center wins highly competitive stroke grant from NIH
...stroke education will be offered to more people in northern Manhattan to see if the information can help facilitate quicker treatment of stroke in this population. The project also has four core organizational elements for patient access, biostatistics and data management, blood and tissue pathology, and a...Hong Kong think tank calls for pollution standards
... major component of smog, across Hong Kong and its northern neighbor Guangdong Province. Fine particulate matter is made up of chemical particles less than 2.5 microns in diameter. The main sources of these particles are the burning of coal for energy, emissions from gasoline and diesel vehicles and the burni...Space sentinels track desertification on Mediterranean shores
...ent of a desertification monitoring system for the northern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, in support of responsible regional and national authorities. "Desertification is a common problem across Mediterranean nations, because of circumstances in common: similar historical backgrounds, climatic conditions, ...Chernobyl disaster caused cancer cases in Sweden
... all along the coastal area of Northern Sweden and northern central Sweden. The fallout in Sweden was unevenly distributed and, compared with the areas close to the nuclear power station at Chenobyl, considerably less. Knowledge of the possible consequences of radioactive fallout on health prompted a number o...Month of birth linked to risk of MS
In the northern hemisphere, being born in May is linked to an incr...sociation between month of birth and risk of MS in northern countries, but the explanation remains unclear, say the authors. Previous studies have suggested th...Patients with moderate or severe hand dermatitis responsive to drug therapy
...tis affects six to 11 percent of the population in northern Europe, according to background information in the article. The disease can include redness, scaling, blistering, swelling, itching, and fissures of the skin on the hands. Chronic hand dermatitis (CHaD) has been known to cause psychological distress ...Grapefruit juice and medication can be a dangerous mix
... Rochester Medical Center reported on a man from a northern climate who moved to Florida for the winter - one of tens of thousands of "snowbirds" who head south each winter - and began drinking two to three glasses of grapefruit juice each day. The man became critically ill as a result of an interaction bet...Cardiovascular risk factors in midlife strongly linked to risk of dementia
... of dementia in old age. The study of nearly 9,000 northern Californians is published in the January 25 issue of Neurology, the scientific journal of the American Academy of Neurology. Each of these four CV risk factors (diabetes, hypertension, high cholesterol, and smoking) identified at midlife (age 40 to 4...Satellite data reveal immense pollution pool over Bihar, India
...d an immense wintertime pool of pollution over the northern Indian state of Bihar. Blanketing around 100 million people, primarily in the Ganges Valley, the pollution levels are about five times larger than those typically found over Los Angeles. The discovery was made by researchers analyzing four years of ...Over prescribing causing high rates of antibiotic resistance in south and east Europe
...more common in southern and eastern Europe than in northern Europe because the regions have high rates of anti...outhern and eastern European countries, whereas in northern European countries the increase in antibiotic use during the winter was less than 25%. In most count......om Afar on the sands of Ethiopia, to Ingush in the northern Caucasus have similar sound patterns.Why are these patterns found in unrelated languages? Why do languages favour silent p t k sounds over noisy b d g sounds at the end of the word? And why are these sounds common, while clicks have arisen only once ...Penn study will compare heart failure management technologies
... and rural catchment areas of southern Montana and northern Wyoming, including the Indian Health Service. Volunteers must be documented heart failure patients. Participants must have had two symptomatic heart failure events within the past year requiring a trip to an emergency room. A primary care physician...