Millions of people worldwide are regularly exposed to arsenic through drinking water and eating rice grown in soil and water containing high amounts of arsenic. Long-term exposure can lead to the development of different ...
Biotechnology
Feb 12, 2013
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In the driest inhabited continent on earth, underground water accounts for a large portion of Australia’s most precious resource – freshwater.
Environment
Mar 29, 2012
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(PhysOrg.com) -- UA scientists have teamed up to study the relationship between arsenic in human toenails and arsenic concentration in drinking water. Exposure to arsenic is associated with several chronic diseases ranging ...
Environment
Dec 7, 2011
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Many people in Bangladesh and other parts of Asia have been poisoned by drinking groundwater laced with arsenic—not introduced by humans, but leached naturally from sediments, and now being tapped by ...
Environment
Oct 11, 2011
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Researchers in MIT's Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering believe they have pinpointed a pathway by which arsenic may be contaminating the drinking water in Bangladesh, a phenomenon that has puzzled scientists, ...
Environment
Nov 15, 2009
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A Kansas State University geologist and graduate student are finding that the most important tools in their fieldwork on groundwater arsenic pollution are women and children armed with pamphlets and testing kits.
Environment
Oct 22, 2009
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