(i e. poison ivy) may not want to risk finding out whether these processes for removing anarcardic acid are entirely effective.
and now Africa with the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) recently recognizing 12 of the 16 species as at risk.
Millions of these birds have now been lost to the pet trade putting the species at risk.
Health Benefits, Risks & Nutrition Facts Sweet juicy oranges make a delicious and healthy snack or addition to a meal.
Oranges may additionally help reduce the risk of respiratory diseases certain cancers rheumatoid arthritis ulcers and kidney stones.
Not only may oranges help reduce the risk of chronic conditions but they may also boost a person's immunity when dealing with everyday viruses and infections like the common cold.
which is beneficial in lowering levels of homocysteine a cardiovascular risk factor. Oranges are high in fiber
Furthermore the American Optometric Association reports that Vitamin c can help reduce the risk of cataracts
The Vitamin c in oranges is associated with a reduced risk of colon cancer due to preventing DNA mutations from taking place Flores said.
and orange juice in the first two years of life may reduce the risk of childhood leukemia.
Specifically some species can only be preserved outside of their natural environments as their wild habitats are in great danger.
and vegetables a day reduces people's risk of dying a new study suggests. The study also found that fresh vegetables may be slightly more protective than fresh fruit
and canned fruit may actually increase the risk of death. Researchers analyzed information from more than 65000 people in England ages 35 and older who answered questions about their eating habits.
The findings held even after the researchers took into account factors that may affect people's risk of dying such as cigarette smoking body mass index and physical activity level.
Each daily serving of fresh vegetables was linked with a 16-percent reduction in a person's risk of dying
while each serving of fresh fruit was linked with a 4-percent reduction in risk of death.
However each serving of canned or frozen fruit increased the risk of death by 17 percent.
and vegetables were solely responsible for the reduced risk of death or that canned fruit increases the risk of death.
The study did not take into account people's total calorie intake or salt consumption which may affect the link.
and vegetables experience other factors that increase their risk of dying such as health conditions or stressful lives the researchers said.
Health Benefits, Risks & Nutrition Facts Soft and creamy enough to be put in pies and called dessert sweet potatoes are also a surprisingly nutritious vegetable.
Cancer prevention The NIH reports that some studies have suggested that beta-carotene may reduce the risk of breast cancer in premenopausal women ovarian cancer in postmenopausal women.
and prepared in a healthy way (that means not just indulging in sweet potato fries) sweet potatoes are a nutritious delicious food that should pose no significant health risks.
However if you have had a high-risk pregnancy or a history of problems in giving birth you should see the health care provider sooner than that.
This increases people's risk of exposure to Ebola virus in remote corners of the forest he added.
the risk of catching Ebola Reston in this way is relatively low. By contrast, the appearance of the virus in an important livestock species was unexpected
as at present, an assessment of the risk to health and the environment posed by their application.
Individual member states will then have to adopt National Action Plans to reduce the risks of pesticides
</br>In his Financial times column, 2008 On energy security: Tom Vilsack: Iowa is one of the nation's leading producers of corn-based ethanol,
but if we are going to create energy security we can't simply replace one imported source of energy with another.
That alone is not security â Â the only way we can produce enough domestically is
which is responsible for scientific risk assessments on GM CROPS in Europe, has reported that there is no case against MON801,
and this led the European commission, the EU's executive, to develop a new legal framework that ensured the tightest possible safety controls based on transparent risk-assessment analysis. That framework,
when there is no scientific evidence of danger to health or environment; once approved the crop may be cultivated in all 27 member states.
if new scientific evidence of possible danger should come to light. Seven countries in the EU now grow MON801,
claiming that the risk assessment needs to be updated. Last year, France, which had been one of the EU's largest users of the technology,
But the EFSA concluded that none of the supposedly new scientific evidence provided by these four countries would invalidate the previous risk assessments of maize MON810.
After a risk-analysis report by The french food safety committee giving MON810 a clean bill of health was leaked to the press last week--it had previously been suppressed--prime minister Francois Fillon rushed to Brussels to insist that France would maintain its ban whatever
an increasing number of homes are being built in areas that have a greater risk of wildfire a problem that also exists in the greater Los angeles and San diego areas of California.
and smaller, more frequent fires reduce the risk of a catastrophic blaze. However, climate models do suggest that Australian summers will get warmer and drier as the century proceeds,
and there is little doubt that this will have an effect on fire risk. Heatwaves and fires are virtually certain to increase in intensity and frequency
%In southeast Australia, the frequency of very high and extreme fire danger days is likely to rise by 4-25%by 2020 and by 15-70%by 2050, according to the IPCC's report.
Other regions exposed to high wildfire risk, including southern Europe, South africa and the southwestern United states, face similar changes.
Other researchers think that ten Cate's study risks sullying Tinbergen's legacy. It's not fair to Tinbergen any paper from 50 years ago wouldn't pass modern standards
So, are we in danger of losing our closest allies in the fight against climate change?
THE WHO defends itself against allegations it overhyped the dangers of H1n1 under pressure from vaccine manufacturers at a hearing of the Council of europe's health committee.
A spokesman warns of the danger of an explosion of outbreaks in some places. 27 december 2009:
Researchers from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention warn that pregnant women might be increased at risk for complications from pandemic H1n1 in a research paper in eventid=login>The Lancet (hithardbyswi. html>more on this story.
'Phase 4 indicates a significant increase in risk of a pandemic but does not necessarily mean that a pandemic is a forgone conclusion,
but could also pose an infection risk. Researchers have used also the genome sequence to assemble a collection of more than 37,000 locations in the genome that contain frequent single-base changes in DNA sequence2.
The document specifically cited greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles as a danger to public health. California Democrat Barbara Boxer, who handles climate regulation in the Senate as chairwoman of the Environment and Public works Committee
or risk defaulting on a promise to implement a system by 2010. Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull of the Liberal party has called the scheme irresponsible,
This raises the risk that the virus could circulate freely between humans and pigs, making it more likely to reassort into a deadlier strain,
Moreover, Nature has learned that the international community was warned of such a risk in a presentation at a closed meeting between the OIE, THE WHO and the Food and agriculture organization of the united nations in Paris in February.
The results underscore the danger posed by deforestation, which is responsible for upward of 20 percent of global carbon emissions.
The perils to biodiversity are increasing too, he says.
Forest growth studies begin to turn up the heat: Nature Newsacross the United states, researchers are firing up experiments to determine how rising temperatures could reshape the nation's forests.
countries would have to show that they are engaged actively in risk reduction, she says. Developing countries agree to reduce their risk,
and then developed countries would provide an insurance package. Warner says that references to climate insurance go all the way back to the original United nations Framework Convention on Climate Change signed in Rio de janeiro in 1992,
To date, the best model for large-scale multilateral insurance may be the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Initiative.
the WASHINGTON DC-based head of the nonprofit firm Caribbean Risk Managers, which manages the programme.
the authors re-ran their estimates to take account of the likely impact of the American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009, also known as the Waxman-Markey bill.
and that could further increase the risk to food security.
News briefing: 1 october 2009: Nature Newspolicy Events Research Business The week ahead News maker Number crunch Policy Merkel wins:
and improving nuclear security. Emissions reporting: The US Environmental protection agency has announced its nationwide reporting system for greenhouse-gas emissions.
and a 2009 report from the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) warned of significant health risks.
which had failed to work individually, together reduced the risk of contracting HIV by nearly a third.
and food safety and security. Yet Beachy's arrival also underscores the often-close ties between US agribusiness and federal research.
however, concludes that methyl iodide fumigation results in significant health risks for workers and the general population,
money or know-how to undertake all the required precautions. Alternatives to chemical fumigants are available including rotating strawberries with crops such as broccoli that contain natural pest deterrents,
EPA administrator Lisa Jackson took the first step in April with an endangerment finding that would formally declare carbon dioxide a danger to public health and the environment.
In September, the trial was said to show that a vaccine combination reduced the risk of HIV infection by nearly one-third.
Nearly 40%of animal and plant species in the country's arid and semiarid ecosystems are in danger from habitat loss,
The US government should grade microorganisms and toxins according to their risk as potential biothreat agents,
Currently, research on 82 human, plant and animal pathogens (called select agents) is monitored under a 1996 law that requires the same security procedures for all of them.
and better housing insulation could lead to health risks from factors such as more indoor air pollution.
Security screen: Five gene-synthesis companies in a new International Gene Synthesis Consortium have adopted practices that are intended to address the biosecurity risks of the technology.
and risks yet the studies'findings are already being challenged. Spraying the herbicide glyphosate on coca plants is a key tool in the war on cocaine.
The collision sent hundreds of pieces of debris flying at high speed across low-Earth orbit, threatening other satellites and increasing the risk to a NASA shuttle mission to fix the Hubble Space Telescope
(see'Kaputnik chaos could kill Hubble'and'Collision debris increases risk to Earth-observing satellites'.
Mercader says that he has taken always precautions not to wash or touch the excavated tools to ensure that he leaves pollens,
Climate security breach: Three weeks after the theft of e-mails from the Climatic Research Unit (CRU) at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, UK, unsuccessful hacking was reported at the Canadian Centre for Climate Modelling and Analysis
increasing their risk of extinction. According to Wang, brown-and-white pandas have only been seen in the Qinling population,
Avandia risks: Drug-maker Glaxosmithkline (GSK) was aware of cardiac risks associated with its diabetes drug Avandia (rosiglitazone) years before they became public
but sought to minimize the findings, said the US Senate finance committee in a report released last week.
and communicate the risks of Avandia. Biomedical priorities: The Wellcome Trust, Britain's biggest charitable funder of biomedical research, has for the first time explicitly set out five priority areas it wants to fund,
I think this maple syrup study demonstrates the danger of tissue testing. If we are making serious decisions about peoples'lives with isotope analysis,
The case involves a series of applications made by the state-owned science company Agresearch to the Environmental Risk Management Authority (ERMA), a government regulatory agency.
and whether they contain enough information to evaluate risks and benefits. Indeed, some opponents of genetic modification believe Agresearch is testing the system to see how broad their applications can be.
Many of the risks and controls associated with genetically modifying animals will be the same he says.
but there is a quite serious risk that some of the advances made in Arabidopsis research in the past ten years may not be sustained.
At the moment, six countries Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary and Luxembourg have GMO bans in place through the use of'safeguard clauses'.
if they claim to have some evidence that the crops might pose a risk to human health or the environment.
But some reports suggest that the commission could continue to approve GMOS across the EU on the basis of scientific advice from the European Food safety Authority (EFSA), its independent risk-assessment body in Parma,
Environmental groups and some countries have had longstanding concerns about the risk of genes spreading from crops to bacteria and increasing bacterial antibiotic resistance.
What does the science say about that risk? The EFSA considered this in the context of the Amflora application in 2005,
and concluded that the risk of transfer of antibiotic resistance from plants to bacteria was remote,
They argued that the risk of gene transfer might be less than remote and that introducing genes that confer resistance to antibiotics that are used, for example,
Indeed, although the EU, the World health organization and many health bodies accept that the risk of transfer of antibiotic resistance seems low
More broadly, other experts say that much more publicly funded research on GMOS would lead to greater public confidence in risk assessments,
But the report warns that the risks of genetic engineering may multiply as the technology is applied to more crops
because it avoids the spraying of dangerous pesticides the risk-benefit equation is clearly in favour of its use.
which in January forced out director Susan Greenfield. 12-13 april US President Barack Obama hosts a global summit on nuclear security in WASHINGTON DC.
There is no clear link between mobile-phone use and the risk of brain cancer, according to a major study published this week (The INTERPHONE Study Group Int. J. Epidemiol. doi:
But a report by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) concluded in 2009 that the compound posed significant health risks.
saying in its 5 february reviewreport. pdf>report that in every instance where the DPR findings differed from the US EPA risk assessment for methyl iodide,
The review members are experts in assessing pesticide risks not in regulatory risk management that leads to decisions on registration, the DPR said in a statement to Nature.
Risk management is a distinct process of weighing scientific and other factors. The EPA is due to review its approval of methyl iodide in 2013.
The chemical is registered already for use in 48 states. The agency does not have figures on how much methyl iodide is being used at present,
Both methods put people at risk of exposure to the viruses. Andrew van den Hurk of the Queensland Health Forensic and Scientific Services in Coopers Plains, Australia,
As a result, it would be nearly impossible to quantify the risk of infection on the basis of the amount of VIRAL RNA on the cards
and that larger groups even those filled with dallying birds may have a lower risk of predation
the California-based drug company's treatment for osteoporosis. The monoclonal antibody will be used to treat postmenopausal women who have increased an risk of fractures,
which conducts a risk assessment of each GM organism. The Council of ministers then makes a decision on the crop that applies to farmers and agribusinesses throughout Europe.
regardless of whether the EFSA has determined they pose no risk to human health or the environment and whether they have been approved by the European commission.
The very real danger is that it risks discouraging technology companies investing in Europe. Meanwhile, environmental groups such as Friends of the Earth and Greenpeace are concerned that devolving decision-making on GM CROPS will make it more difficult to block their development.
Report maps perils of warming: Nature Newsas the US Senate gears up to debate the latest incarnation of proposed climate legislation next week, a blue-ribbon panel has released
The Pakistan Irrigation and Power Department has declared many embankments along a 160-mile stretch of the Indus in the Sindh province to be in danger of breaking.
and environmental disasters including the risk of radioactive particles being released from contaminated land around the Chernobyl nuclear reactor.
and the dangers the fires still pose. How bad is the situation? More than 300,000 hectares of forest, vegetation and peat land have burned
Is there a radiation risk? Not really. Jim Smith, who researches the fate of radioactivity in the environment at the University of Portsmouth,
I wouldn't underestimate the exposure risk, as we know little about the health effects of a carbon monoxide
scientific methods of assessing risks and benefits of GM CROPS, says Monkombu Swaminathan, an agricultural scientist often referred to as the father of India's green revolution for his role in developing high-yield varieties of wheat.
Nature Newsmore than 20%of the world's 380,000 plant species are at risk of extinction,
The risk assessment, called the Sampled Red List Index for Plants, was conducted by plant scientists at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK,
says Eimear Nic Lughadha, a plant scientist at Kew and a lead researcher on the plant risk assessment.
whether the risk to plants is growing with time. Stephen Hopper, director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, says that the assessment will help countries to measure progress towards new targets to halt loss of the world's biodiversity by 2020,
because elk that are near starvation as many often are in the winter are willing to take any risk to eat.
and tests could determine additional species at risk of a future die off. Attendees also agreed on a proposal to create an IUCN bumblebee specialist group that can coordinate the necessary research that will help policy-makers counteract the population loss.
the risk seems to have paid off: four years into the programme and almost a century after pinkies were first found in the United states, in 1917,
they met with the Civil Protection in L'aquila to assess the risk of a major shock.
After the meeting, a Civil Protection official (who was indicted also) told the press that there was no immediate danger.
there is a big risk that we will run out of options for natural genetic resistance, says Spanu.
and poses cancer risks. Tuna quotas Fisheries regulators are showing little mercy to the Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus),
which is in danger of being wiped out by commercial fishing. On 27 november at a meeting in Paris, members of the Madrid-based International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas,
setting out the potential risks associated with climate change, and possible solutions. These range from adopting the same building standards for roads as those for the south of France,
Environmentalists have protested against the deal as they grow increasingly vocal about the dangers of drilling in the Arctic.
too little is known about the risks associated with intensification. These systems are intensifying anyway. So how do we intensify in a sustainable way
and how do we manage the risk? he asks. These questions will be investigated as part of a new $us60-million per year research programme proposed by the International Food Policy Research Institute,
that concerns about the possible cardiovascular risks of the drug Contrave (naltrexone/bupropion) outweighed its weight-loss benefit.
Canadian forest deal at risk: Nature Newsfor conservationists, the promise seems almost too good to be true
could allowing cattle to graze in the country's Alpine National park the picturesque setting for the film The Man from Snowy River reduce the risk of bushfires?
and few have undertaken any kind of risk assessment of their operations. I just wanted to prick the conscience of botanic gardens,
But he also says that many gardens take steps to limit the danger of unwanted escapees.
Koh and his colleagues found that the conversion to oil-palm plantations had put four species of bird at risk of extinction in Borneo,
16 species at risk in Sumatra, and 46 in Peninsular Malaysia. Koh's team also collaborated with remote-sensing experts to create a map of land-use change.
The World Resources Institute in WASHINGTON DC published the statistics on 23 february in Reefs at Risk
The team then plugged those concentrations into a piece of software called ERICA (Environmental Risk from Ionising Contaminants) to calculate the radiation dose that various groups of wildlife would have received.
On the one hand, close scrutiny of certification papers by European importers could act as an extra safeguard in the system.
Lawson also questions the strength of safeguards in importing countries in Europe because the legislation allows countries to determine their own penalties for breaches in paperwork.
during an epidemic, culling on farms that are at risk of infection could be unnecessary.
but until now we haven't been able to move into those areas owing to security problems,
is that the danger of an uncontrolled outbreak in Yemen is declining as the country heads into its dry season.
However, that does not mean the danger would be over, Cressman warns. Wind could still carry the locusts across the Red sea
but that will depend on individual countries, politics, security and all those things.
Seven days: 17 23 june 2011: Nature Newspolicy Funding Events Research Trend watch Coming up Policy Pathogen dangers A US panel has named the most dangerous pathogens with potential for misuse.
In a report released on 14 june, the Federal Experts Security Advisory Panel identified 11 biological agents that it said needed more rigorous monitoring,
and recommended background checks for researchers working with them. The pathogens include bacteria and viruses that cause smallpox, the plague, anthrax, Ebola and foot-and-mouth disease.
Events Primate peril Employees at a major US primate-research centre and the animals it houses, all survived unscathed a massive chemical explosion at a nearby plant on 14 june.
The potential for the creation of new pathogens via phage release is absolutely a factor in the broader environmental danger of overuse of antibiotics.
a decades-old law intended to safeguard against plant pathogens from overseas. Previous types of GM plants are covered
or run the risk of over -or under-regulating GM plants, says Roger Beachy, a plant biologist at Washington University in St louis, Missouri,
People cannot rebuild their lives until the radiation risks are understood and a plan for reducing them is in place.
applicants must submit a risk assessment and set out all the uses of the GM crop to the Kenyan biosafety authority.
Once a product has been released for 20 years with no reported risks to human health and the environment
he says, warning of the perils of endless organizational meetings. I don't want to spend ten years on this.
West africans at risk from bat epidemics: Nature Newsserious viruses carried by bats pose a considerable risk to people in West Africa,
warn epidemiologists cataloguing bat-human interactions in the region. Bats are thought to have been the source of several of the nastiest viruses to jump to humans from animals during the past 40 years,
Cunningham and his team started investigating the risk from henipaviruses five years ago. The viruses were thought then to be restricted to Asia and Australasia
'The convention's secretariat now wants to broaden its scope to include humid and wet lands that are at risk of future degradation through the effects of climate change, for example.
The drug brings an increased risk of autoimmune diseases. In the trial, 18.1%of people taking alemtuzumab experienced thyroid-related autoimmune responses,
and it is possible to identify those patients most at risk by screening for certain biomarkers.
and increased research to rule out health risks stemming from the bean. Nodari, a former member of CTNBIO who has questioned long transgenic crops,
ruling that the government must prove that the crop poses major health or environmental risks.
Fish significantly lower the risk of rice sheath blast disease and reduce the amount of weeds and harmful pests such as the rice planthopper.
true danger or the pressure and motivation of a real journey to Mars. See go. nature. com/1zquiu for more.
and restricted in the United states last year after concerns that it increased risks of heart attack and stroke.
when a US Senate committee concluded that GSK had known about the drug's heart risks for more than a decade without reporting them to regulators.
This conclusion the result of a huge analysis of fossils, climate records and DNA hints that it could be more difficult than thought to identify the species at greatest risk of disappearing today.
This could mean that it will be difficult to determine which modern species are at greatest risk of extinction,
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