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Landslide shuts Rio US copper mine
Rio :: FL :: USA | 1 month ago
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RIO Tinto has shut one of the world's largest copper mines in the US following a massive landslide. The slide at the Bingham Canyon Mine pit wall on Thursday had been anticipated amid warning signs of ground movement since February and all workers
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How metal from cremated bodies is being sold off... and recycled into road signs and aircraft engines
London :: United Kingdom | 1 month ago
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11 April 2013 Metal body parts from the dead are being recycled into road signs, car parts and aircraft engines. Steel hips, plates and screws used in legs and skulls are collected after cremation and sold on with money raised going to charity.
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Lead poisoning among children estimate revised, now two times greater
Boston :: MA :: USA | 1 month ago
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ments Lead poisoning among children estimate revised, now two times greater Lead poisoning affects more than half a million US children, according to health officials. That means 1 in 38 young adults are at risk. By Staff, Associated Press / April
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Patent Medicines Get A Belated Chemical Checkup
Washington :: DC :: USA | 1 month ago
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The patent medicines sold in days gone by may, contrary to the name, not have had real government patents. But that didn't stop their makers from claiming the concoctions could cure ailments ranging from indigestion to jaundice and fever. Now,
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Environmental groups oppose new selenium pollution rules for Kentucky
Frankfort :: KY :: USA | 1 month ago
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Kentucky is seeking federal approval to alter its methods for monitoring selenium pollution, a move environmental groups say is designed to protect the coal industry from lawsuits over polluted waterways. The Kentucky legislature's Administrative
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The powerful, unstable explosive found in children's toys
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 1 month ago
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The cap guns that kids use and poppers that they throw at the ground aren't just annoying. They contain one of the most unstable diy compounds that anyone could lose a hand to. The worrying concoction, called Armstrong's mixture, is one of the
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Corn regains some of its losses; oil, copper rise
Columbus :: GA :: USA | 1 month ago
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Traders are waiting for more information about the U.S. economy. Major corporate earnings reports start to flow in this week, and on Wednesday the Federal Reserve will release minutes from its latest policy meeting...Corn prices have been down
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Rover traces loss of Martian air
Vienna :: Austria | 1 month ago
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The degree to which Mars' atmosphere has thinned over time is evident in exquisite new measurements from Nasa's Curiosity rover. It has analysed the different types, or isotopes, of argon atoms in the planet's air. The study shows how a heavier
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Patent medicines' secrets revealed
New York :: NY :: USA | 1 month ago
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Scientists reporting at the American Chemical Society meeting have examined the contents of dozens of century-old remedies held at a US museum. Some contained high levels of "helpful" elements such as iron or calcium, while others contained arsenic
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Questions raised as Port Pirie lead levels rise
Port Pirie :: Australia | 1 month ago
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44 An environmental expert is questioning the methodology used for tests to measure lead levels in children living near the Port Pirie smelter in South Australia. The latest round of health screening in Port Pirie, an industrial city 220 kilometres
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