Human’s disregard to nature and consequently his living environment’s distance from natural endowments and potentials have caused many problems. Human’s living spaces are less desirable for him, and have destroyed his comfort in many cases, as man-made things. In this regard, public open spaces in residential areas can be mentioned because they are usually considered among the most vulnerable s...

The city of Ramsar Iran hosts some of the highest natural radiation levels on earth, and over 2000 people are exposed to radiation doses ranging from 1 to 26 rem per year. Curiously, inhabitants of this region seem to have no greater incidence of cancer than those in neighboring areas of normal background radiation levels, and preliminary studies suggest their blood cells experience fewer induc...

the existence of a high natural radiation area in the northern part of iran (ramsar) is proved. ra 226 in soil is measured. the results are: minimum 23.5 pci/g and maximum 999 pci/g soil. environmental radioactivity is from 0.1 to 5 mr/h.

wetlands in the lower reaches of songhua river (lrsr), northeast china, are rich in biodiversityand natural resources, which provide crucial staging and wintering habitats for various endangered species.however, in the past five decades, the size of this wetland area has decreased, and its quality has deteriorated because of increased natural and human activities. wetland restoration is critica...

in recent years there have been many attempts to develop and market inexpensive mixtures of high protein food for the children in developing areas of the world. biological studies have shown that these foods are rich sources of protein and are every effective in combating protein malnutrition. however, practical marketing and distribution has not been very successful due to the local people's h...

Exposure to radiation in all its forms is part of being alive. Ionising radiation is taken to mean radiation of high-enough energy to displace electrons from atoms and includes cosmic rays, gamma rays, X-rays, alpha and beta radiation. The average level of exposure to natural background radiation varies throughout the world dependent mainly on the geology of the underlying earth. In the UK it i...

36 I ublic awareness about exposure to natural sources of radiation has been growing in recent years at a rather accelerated pace. Exposure to high levels of radon indoors, for example, has drawn considerable attention, and a number of countries have already adopted regulatory measures to mitigate exposure to radon in existing houses and to establish radon limits for new buildings. Another area...

n 1987 the International Agency for Research of Cancer (IARC) evaluated radon and its decay products as human carcinogens (1). Large epidemiologic studies conducted in Western Europe in the Õ90s showed that this radioactive gas accounted for 50 to 90% of a radiological dose (2). Very high residential concentrations of radon were measured in Sweden and Finland (3-5). They were 5,000 times higher...