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Less predictable, however, are the effects of the farm pesticides and industrial chemicals churning in the silt-encrusted swamps and ponds marooned by subsiding rivers. While hydrologists anticipate that the sheer volume of water will dilute and neutralize any toxicity, no one knows what dangers, if any, are posed by toxic runoff from hundreds of submerged factories, fuel- storage facilities and waste dumps. "Think of all this stuff making a witches' brew of new compounds," says Kevin Coyle, president of American Rivers, an environmental group in Washington. "We have no precedent...
...primary concerns of the environmental group opposing NAFTA are transboundary pollution and the deteriorating resource base along the 2000 mile US-Mexico border, exacerbated by the proliferation of maquiladoras and their problems with air pollution and hazardous and toxic waste management...
Cyanide gas, he said, is highly toxic and is eventually lethal to humans if breathed for a protracted period of time. The experiment in question, though, involved only solid cyanide, which is poisonous is ingested but gives off no dangerous fumes...
British scientists have managed to deactivate cancer cells in mice. They moved a gene from a bacterium into the tumor cells; once inside, the gene forced the cells to produce a toxic protein that then shut off the tumor cells' ability to reproduce and spread...
Investigators cannot dismiss the possibility that they are dealing with a new killer, given the emergence of such ailments as Legionnaires' disease, toxic-shock syndrome and AIDS over the past two decades. Modern life is constantly creating new opportunities for microbes, warns author and infectious-disease specialist Dr. Richard Krause of the National Institutes of Health. Legionnaires', he notes, developed because air-conditioning ducts created a new breeding ground for bacteria; toxic shock was linked with the introduction of highly absorbent tampons and AIDS with population shifts and changing sexual mores. At week's end investigators were focusing...