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Latest Statistics On Deaths Highlight Dangers Of The Agricultural Industry, UK

Jan 3rd 2009Drug InformationWater - Air Quality / Agriculture

Agriculture remains one of Britain’s most dangerous industries, according to the latest agricultural statistics report published today by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE). In 2007/08 another 39 workers died bringing the ten-year total death toll to 455. Alarmingly, year on year, over the last ten years the number of deaths in agriculture has remained at a consistently high level. Less than 1.

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Study Links Ecosystem Changes In Temperate Lakes To Climate Warming

Jan 3rd 2009Drug InformationWater - Air Quality / Agriculture

Unparalleled warming over the last few decades has triggered widespread ecosystem changes in many temperate North American and Western European lakes, say researchers at Queen’s University and the Ontario Ministry of the Environment. The team reports that striking changes are now occurring in many temperate lakes similar to those previously observed in the rapidly warming Arctic, although typically many decades later.

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Purdue Study Suggests Warmer Temperatures Could Lead To A Boom In Corn Pests

Jan 3rd 2009Drug InformationWater - Air Quality / Agriculture

Climate change could provide the warmer weather pests prefer, leading to an increase in populations that feed on corn and other crops, according to a new study. Warmer growing season temperatures and milder winters could allow some of these insects to expand their territory and produce an extra generation of offspring each year, said Noah Diffenbaugh, the Purdue University associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences who led the study.

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