No Environment Is Free From Pollutants

Biofilm mediated decontamination of pollutants from the environment

In this review, we highlight beneficial use of microbial biofilms in remediation of environmental pollutants by bioremediation. Bioremediation is an environment friendly, cost effective, sustainable technology that utilizes microbes to decontaminate and degrade a wide variety of pollutants into less harmful products. Relative to free-floating planktonic cells, microbes existing in biofilm mode ...

There is no free lunch--really.

Safety is no accident: live injury-free.

Yet without diligent efforts to maintain immunization programs in the United States and to strengthen them worldwide, vaccinepreventable diseases will remain a threat to children. As illustrations, consider the 2010 California outbreak of whooping cough where over 8,000 cases were reported to the state and where there were 10 infant deaths, or measles, which takes the lives of more than 100,000...

Phthalates as Emerging Pollutants in Water Environment: Control & Treatment Strategies

Is Free Trade Good for the Environment?

This paper sets out a theory of how openness to international goods markets affects pollution concentrations. We develop a theoretical model to divide trade's impact on pollution into scale, technique and composition effects and then examine this theory using data on sulfur dioxide concentrations from the Global Environment Monitoring Project. We find international trade creates relatively smal...