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Growing mosquito populations linked to urbanization and DDT's slow decay

Culex pipiens, the northern house mosquito (adult shown above, larva below), is the most common mosquito in urban and suburban areas in North America. Mosquito populations have increased as much as te... read more

State of the World 2003

Chapter 3: Linking Population, Women, and Biodiversity, Mia MacDonald & Danielle Nierenberg The interplay among population growth ... less toxic than DDT. Sleeping under a bednet radically reduces the ... read more

Chapter 7 - Health issues related to drainage water management

Silting, uncontrolled aquatic weed growth, slow water flow or stagnant pools associated ... the negative consequences of rapid and uncontrolled urbanization are also contributing to the creation of mo... read more

Lack of ZZZZs Linked to Alzheimer's in Mice

Sleep deprivation accelerated the formation of plaques made of amyloid beta, they found. 80beats is DISCOVER's news aggregator, weaving together the choicest tidbits from the best articles covering th... read more

Hawaii Poised to Ban the Insecticide Chlorpyrifos

The accelerated population growth and urbanization that characterized the US in the1950s ... in roach and ant bait stations, and as a mosquito adulticide. Research leading up to Hawaii’s pesticide bil... read more

Social and economic impacts of climate

High temperatures also damage crops, inflate electricity demand, and may trigger population movements within and across ... and future warming may slow global economic growth rates by 0.28 percentage ... read more

More warm-dwelling animals and plants as a result of climate change

Since 1980, populations of warm-dwelling species in Germany have ... This link is very obvious in mobile species such as birds and butterflies but also in slow growing species such as lichens" says Dr ... read more

Shocking drought data from NASA

Exposition : This is the video tape released by Texas DPS on their YouTube channel. At about 32:00 in the video, the office is the middle of his justification for his actions and his version of the ... read more

Einstein, insanity and the war on drugs

The war on drugs has helped turn the United States into the country with the world’s largest prison population. (Noteworthy statistic: The U.S. has 5 percent of the world’s population and around 25 pe... read more

The Global Infectious Disease Threat and Its Implications for the United States

Infectious diseases are likely to slow socioeconomic ... a growing number of infectious diseases--such as tuberculosis (TB), malaria, and smallpox--in the decades after the Second World War fueled hop... read more

Study: Common Pesticides Linked to Attention Deficit Disorder

Add one more to the list of environmental factors that could contribute to the rise in attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): pesticides. A new study out in Pediatrics argues that there’s a ... read more

Growing mosquito populations linked to urbanization and DDT's slow decay

Culex pipiens, the northern house mosquito, is the most common mosquito in urban and suburban areas in North America. Mosquito populations have increased as much as ten-fold over the past five decades ... read more