Geochemistry of sediment in the major estuarine mangrove forest of terengganu region, Malaysia.
INTRODUCTION Mangrove sediments are anaerobic and reduced, as well as being rich in sulphide and organic matter. They therefore favour the retention of water-borne heavy metals (1), (2) and the subsequent oxidation of sulphides between tides allows metal mobilization and bioavailability (3). Many mangrove ecosystems are close...

AT&T Announces Environmental Fellowship Grants.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-1 October 2008-AT&T Announces Environmental Fellowship Grants(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com AT&T announced the 2008 recipients of fellowship grants through the company's Industrial Ecology Faculty Fellowship program. Grants totaling $75,000 have been awarded to three academic research teams. AT&T has a long...

Participants share info about how to care for Mother Earth.
REGINA The First Nations University of Canada (FNUC) held a "Caring for Mother Earth" twoday workshop in September for First Nation Elders, youth and community members at the Regina Campus. Billed as an Environmental Health Research Capacity workshop, participants including Beardy's Okemasis First Nation, English...

New environmental protection standard compels nitrogenous fertilizers enterprises to actualize zero emission.
The national environmental protection standard "The Standard for the Water Pollutant Emission in Ammonia Industry" announced by the Science, Technology and Standard Department of the Ministry of Environmental Protection and drafted by China Environmental Research Institute will soon be published. The new standard raises stringent requirements on the control...

Epi-Ready is growing!
In an effort to pilot test a new training delivery strategy targeted at involving an even broader environmental health audience, NEHA combined talents and resources in May through one of our principal training entities (the Center for Environmental Research and Training [CERT]) by offering an interactive Web cast with...

Early warning system; $1.2M in grants will help Clark Labs develop software to predict - and protect - global health.
Byline: Bill Fortier In the world of meteorology and climate it is called the "butterfly effect," and research originating in Worcester is putting the thinking behind that scientific belief to the test. The Clark Labs for Cartographic Technology and Geographic Analysis at Clark University ...

AM FTIR Air Monitoring System.
MIDAC provides a versatile open path FTIR gas analysis system for a variety of applications. The AM Air Monitoring System can detect, identify, and measure a wide range of compounds simultaneously, within seconds of startup. Analysis is on site through a continuous sampling path of up to 1,000 m....

New math traces human roots: Americas may have been populated in two waves.
The Americas may have been initially settled in separate migrations, a new method for tracing human ancestry reveals. The report supports most previous findings, including the "Out of Africa" hypothesis that all humans share common ancestors who spread from Africa about 60,000 years ago. "The conclusions aren't...

Silicon carbide tested in space.
A suite of silicon carbide (SiC)-based materials developed at the University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (EERC), USA, were recently sent into space aboard the space shuttle Endeavor. The materials were tested on the International Space Station as part of the Materials International Space...