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Research finds strong relationship between food environment, built environment and obesity

Researchers at the University at Buffalo conducting a neighborhood-scaled exploratory study that tested the association between the food environment, the built environment and women’s body mass index (BMI) have found that women with homes closer to a supermarket, relative to a convenience store, had lower BMIs, and that the greater the number of restaurants within a five minute walk of a woman’s …

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Environment college at UW names dean

Lisa Graumlich, director of the University of Arizona’s School of Natural Resources and the Environment, was named inaugural dean of the University of Washington’s College of the Environment.

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Environment ministry halts vedanta university

The Environment ministry has put on hold the Rs 150-billion Vedanta University in Orissa following complaints of irregularities by Anil Aggarwal Foundation, the developer of the university.

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New study ranks countries on environment impact

( University of Adelaide ) A new study led by the University of Adelaide’s Environment Institute has ranked most of the world’s countries for their environmental impact.

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Nitrogen and Carbon Inexorably Linked in the Environment

A new study exploring the growing worldwide problem of nitrogen pollution from soils to the sea shows that global ratios of nitrogen and carbon in the environment are inexorably linked, a finding that may lead to new strategies to help mitigate regional problems ranging from contaminated waterways to human health.The University of Colorado at Boulder study found the ratio between nitrates — a …

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Fossil-fuel subsidies hurting global environment, security

( University of California – San Diego ) A comprehensive assessment of global fossil-fuel subsidies has found that governments are spending $500 billion annually on policies that undermine energy security and worsen the environment.

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Rush University Medical Center Promotes the Health of the Environment

Rush University Medical Center is taking the lead in adopting environmentally friendly and sustainable design, construction and operation practices that not only promote the health of the environment , but also the health of patients and staff.

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Search for College of the Environment dean in final phases

Mark Abbott, the dean and professor of the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences at Oregon State University, told the UW community Friday that collaborating with students and faculty and challenging the status quo is important for the new dean of the college of the environment .

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‘Chemical cocktails’ affecting humans and the environment (New Kerala)

Washington, March 30 : Researchers at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, have looked at the risk of ‘chemical cocktails’ to humans and the environment and have proposed a number of measures that need to be implemented in the current practice of chemical risk assessment.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT SETTLES CLAIM AGAINST JOHNS HOPKINS FOR ALLEGED RADIATION VIOLATIONS (dBusinessNews.com)

BALTIMORE – The Maryland Department of the Environment has entered into an agreement with Johns Hopkins University and Johns Hopkins Hospital to resolve the Department’s civil claims for alleged violations of Maryland laws and regulations governing the use of radioactive materials and radiation machines.

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