Latest Arsenic contamination of groundwater Stories
What's flowing in ground water could cause adult-onset diabetes, according to U.S. researchers. Arsenic is a naturally occurring poison and carcinogen found in ground water. It's odorless, tasteless, colorless, and easily soluble in water or wine.Researchers say small amounts of arsenic may gradually sicken people. They studied 788 adults' medical tests and found a nearly fourfold increase in the risk of diabetes in people with low arsenic concentrations in their urine compared to people with...
Higher levels of arsenic in the urine appear to be associated with increased prevalence of type 2 diabetes, U.S. researchers said. Millions of individuals worldwide are exposed to drinking water contaminated with inorganic arsenic, including 13 million Americans whose public water supply contains more than the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency standard of 10 micrograms per liter. Dr. Ana Navas-Acien of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore and colleagues...
By Zhang, Q L Gao, Nai-Yun; Lin, Y C; Xu, Bin; Le, Lin-sheng ABSTRACT: Removal of arsenic(V) from aqueous solutions was evaluated with the following three different sorption materials: coal-based activated carbon 12 x 40 (activated carbon), iron(II) oxide (FeO)/activated carbon-H, and iron oxide. The apparent characteristics and physical chemistry performances of these adsorbents were investigated by X-ray diffraction, nitrogen adsorption, and scanning electronic microscope. Also, batch...
By Alison McCook NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Some children with particular genetic patterns appear to process arsenic differently, suggesting that they may be more -- or less -- vulnerable to its effects, according to new study findings. Researchers found that children who carry a certain variation of the CYT19 gene tend to break down arsenic differently than children with different variations of the same gene. "If people metabolize arsenic differently," Dr. Walter T. Klimecki told Reuters...
