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Overhead and buried power lines at your site are especially hazardous because they carry extremely high voltage. Fatal electrocution is the main risk, but burns and falls from elevations [...]
Sewage treatment plants fail to remove artificial sweeteners completely from waste water. What’s more, these pollutants contaminate waters downstream and may still be present in our drinking water. Thanks to their new robust analytical method, which simultaneously extracts and analyses seven commonly used artificial sweeteners, Marco Scheurer, Heinz-Jürgen Brauch and Frank Thomas Lange from the [...]
New research suggests a link between women’s exposure to household insecticides – including roach and mosquito killers – and the autoimmune disorders rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.
Blu aaaPrefab Home Designer Homes has recently completed a house in Colorado in early October. Le Chalet Fischer, a modern prefab green home in Breckenridge, Colorado, is a perfect example of what Blu Homes is able to do.
A 21-year-old fork lift truck driver has been prosecuted following an industrial accident in which a banksman sustained multiple injuries.
He was fined £500 at Livingston Sheriff Court after pleading guilty to a charge under S.7 of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
A lorry struck the rear of a bus on the motorway in Caracas causing an accident which left 10 people dead and 12 others injured, on the previous weekend 24 people died in Venezuelan traffic accidents.
A train collision that killed 18 people in Egypt came after a left work early and failed to warn drivers of delays because of a water buffalo on the track, an initial inquiry found on Sunday.
Four workers were killed by poisonous fumes after a blast in a lead-zinc mine in southwest China’s Yunnan Province Monday, said a local government official.
Sometimes what is bad for the economy may be good for the planet. Or at least supported Lester Brown, president of Earth Policy Institute, yesterday. This environmental trend spotter said in May several developments that have escaped our attention that the world economy alternately sputtered and came periods of free fall throughout the last 18 months.
A special screening at Sydney Film Balibo, about the murder of five Australian journalists in East Timor in 1975 and starring the American actor Anthony LaPaglia has raised more than U.S. $ 2,200 for the Institute for International Security News.
