This article deals with the problem of protecting environment from pollution in case accidental oil spills. To date, we have accumulated some practical experience elimination emergency spills, which is characterized by presence various technical devices for spills – booms and collectors. However, more relevant direction preventive protection against aimed at preventing their occurrence. Prevent...

Though Mycobacterium leprae is considered to be primarily a parasite of humans, there is a long history of studies, evidence and arguments which have indicated possible non-human sources of the agent. Thus different authors have suggested that M. leprae may be harboured in soil, – 3 in water, on plants, – 7 or in various animal species including amoeba, insects, fish, – 13 primates, and armadil...

A zone of hypoxic and anoxic waters has become a dominant feature of the northern Gulf of Mexico. Nitrogen draining into the Gulf from the Mississippi Basin has been identified as the primary source of the problem. Reducing nitrogen loads from point and nonpoint sources in the basin is the primary goal of an action plan developed to address the problem. In this paper, we use data on point sourc...

by S. Haddad I he first attempts to compare the environmenand tal and health impacts of different electricity R. Dones production systems were made in the 1970s. At that time, fundamental decisions had to be taken on the best way of satisfying the rapid growth in electricity demand. Promoters of this generation of comparative studies were basically inspired by a willingness to rank on a unidime...

Sources of Uncertainty Global Assessment using Split SamplES (SUNGLASSES) is a method for assessing model global uncertainty to aid in the development of integrated models. The method is complementary to the commonly investigated input and parameter uncertainty, as it accounts for errors that may arise due to unknown or unassessable sources of uncertainty, such as model hypothesis errors, simpl...

The water supply and dust samples from the home environment (bathrooms and kitchens) of 50 wearers of contact lenses (CLs) were cultured for the presence of free-living amoebae. CL cases, solutions, and water taps were cultured for bacteria, which amoebae require for growth. Acanthamoeba spp were isolated from water drawn from six bathroom cold water taps (tank supplied), five in the presence o...

OBJECTIVES To examine (1) whether dust and surfaces in households of smokers are contaminated with environmental tobacco smoke (ETS); (2) whether smoking parents can protect their infants by smoking outside and away from the infant; and (3) whether contaminated dust, surfaces, and air contribute to ETS exposure in infants. DESIGN Quasi-experiment comparing three types of households with infan...