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RONCO: Humanitarian Land Mine Clearance
In U.N, reports from Afghanistan, data show by square meters that dog teams clear mined areas three times faster than comparable ...
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RONCO: Mine/UXO Clearance
Dogs, with the ability to smell at least 1,000 times greater than humans, can detect this specific smell and zero in on the exact ... dogs. They detected every trip wire set and discovered more mines than any other system." In tests conducted by the U.S. Department ... tested. Coupled with the use of traditional demining techniques, or more than one dog covering the same area, the United Nation's ...
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Water: The Hub of Life
The history of ... times the lost of one group paved the way for another. The demise of the Dinosaurs created ecological conditions, which eventually fostered the development of modern Humans ... period of life of this planet as a calendar year, humans have only been here for the last 10 minutes !! << ozH2o ...
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Origins of agriculture
Increased population required increased food enforcing more reliance on agriculture. Settled agriculturists can survive at higher population densities estimated to be 10-100 times greater than ... biology of cultivated plums, peaches, apricots, apples, grapes and cherries occurred when humans selected and bred mutant plants.. These plants became self-compatible hermaphrodites which ...
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Water Hardness and Cardiovascular Mortality
Bucharest and in the nearby village in the Gurghiu Valley. Fodor (46, 47) observed that the rate of hypertension among Newfoundland fishing villagers was much higher than in ... 290. 91.MARIER, J. R. 1968. The importance of dietary magnesium with particular reference to humans. Vitalst. Zivilisationskr. 13: 144-149. 92.SCHROEDER, H. A. 1971. Losses of vitamins and trace ...
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CHCI - Frequently Asked Questions
Humans and chimpanzees do not make good physical companions. Chimpanzees are not only five-to-seven times stronger than humans (eight-to-ten times stronger in their upper bodies ... sold to laboratories, zoos, circuses, and private owners around the world. A new and greater threat has recently developed for the free-living chimpanzees -- the bushmeat trade. Eating ...
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Bacillus Thuringiensis
Acute Toxicity to Humans Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki: There have been few experimental studies assessing the toxiciy of B ... , the number of species was above 30 percent higher, and the number of caterpillars 5 times greater, than in B.t.k.-treated areas two weeks after treatment. The number of caterpillars was ...
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ETC - Technological and Environment Issues - Chemicals of Concern - Chromium-6
As an essential trace mineral, humans require chromium in very small amounts. It is found in such foods as broccoli, ... cancer for chromate plant workers is twenty times greater than that for the general population. Furthermore, animal studies indicate that Chromium-6 is a carcinogen. Since humans, animals, and plants do not bioacccumulate (or ...
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Factory Farming | Farm Sanctuary
U.S. is more than 130 times greater than that produced by humans. Agricultural runoff has killed millions of fish, and is the main reason ... addition to killing fish, pfiesteria causes open sores, nausea, memory loss, fatigue and disorientation in humans. Even groundwater, which takes thousands of years to restore, is being contaminated. For example, ...
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Dioxin
It is a by-product created ... - most importantly Indigenous Peoples who maintain subsistence cultures - are millions of times greater than those in the general environment. More than 90% of our dioxin exposure comes through the food supply - ...
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