News tagged with river sediments
Toxic Coal Ash Threatens Health And Environment
(PhysOrg.com) -- Exposure to dust and river sediment containing toxic metals and radioactivity from a coal ash spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston power plant last December could pose risks ...
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Scientists discover Amazon river is 11 million years old
Researchers at the University of Liverpool have discovered that the Amazon river, and its transcontinental drainage, is around 11 million years old and took its present shape about 2.4 million years ago.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 29, 2009 |
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The Amazon River is 11 million years old
The Amazon River originated as a transcontinental river around 11 million years ago and took its present shape approximately 2.4 million years ago. These are the most significant results of a study on two ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Obama wants to pump $475M into Great Lakes cleanup
(AP) -- A budget proposal from the Obama administration would spend $475 million on beach cleanups, wetlands restoration and removal of toxic sediments from river bottoms around the Great Lakes.
May 15, 2009 |
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River delta areas can provide clue to environmental changes
Sediments released by many of the world's largest river deltas to the global oceans have been changed drastically in the last 50 years, largely as a result of human activity, says a Texas A&M University researcher who emphasizes ...
May 11, 2009 |
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Scientists find new solutions for the arsenic-poisoning crisis in Asia
(PhysOrg.com) -- Every day, more than 140 million people in southern Asia drink groundwater contaminated with arsenic. Thousands of people in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Myanmar and Vietnam die of cancer each year from chronic ...
Mar 24, 2009 |
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