Research Shows Unplugged Oil Wells Are Exacerbating Climate Change texasobserver.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from texasobserver.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
E-Mail
Scientists at UC San Francisco have detected 109 chemicals in a study of pregnant women, including 55 chemicals never before reported in people and 42 mystery chemicals, whose sources and uses are unknown.
The chemicals most likely come from consumer products or other industrial sources. They were found both in the blood of pregnant women, as well as their newborn children, suggesting they are traveling through the mother s placenta.
The study will be published March 17, 2021, in
Environmental Science & Technology. These chemicals have probably been in people for quite some time, but our technology is now helping us to identify more of them, said Tracey J. Woodruff, PhD, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at UCSF.
Date Time
Study Finds Evidence of 55 Chemicals Never Before Reported in People
Scientists at UC San Francisco have detected 109 chemicals in a study of pregnant women, including 55 chemicals never before reported in people and 42 “mystery chemicals,” whose sources and uses are unknown.
The chemicals most likely come from consumer products or other industrial sources. They were found both in the blood of pregnant women, as well as their newborn children, suggesting they are traveling through the mother’s placenta.
The study was published March 17 in Environmental Science & Technology.
“These chemicals have probably been in people for quite some time, but our technology is now helping us to identify more of them,” said Tracey J. Woodruff, PhD, a professor of obstetrics, gynecology and reproductive sciences at UCSF.
with permission from the author.
For this year’s Black History Month, and because we are still in a pandemic, I leaped at the opportunity to virtually participate in the
: Lift Every Voice Racial Equity and Poverty, a series of online conversations that “inspires anti-racism action through art and courageous conversation.”
From soul-shaking poetry to a one-person play, this was a great way to bring our community together to reflect. Because it used Zoom, we were able to have breakout rooms with a handful of participants to share our personal reflections.
In our breakout, one participant shared earnestly and somewhat curiously, “My friends and I get how redlining and restrictive covenants prevented people of color from homeownership before the civil rights movement of the 1960s. But it seems the systems aren’t racist anymore; we have laws to stop that now. Instead, it just seems that it is based on a person’s financial situation.” I appreciated this white woman spe
Study demonstrates the lasting effects of redlining
Historically redlined neighborhoods are more likely to have a paucity of greenspace today compared to other neighborhoods.
The study by researchers at Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health and the University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco, demonstrates the lasting effects of redlining, a racist mortgage appraisal practice of the 1930s that established and exacerbated racial residential segregation in the United States. Results appear in
Environmental Health Perspectives.
In the 1930s, the Home Owners Loan Corporation (HOLC) assigned risk grades to neighborhoods across the country based on racial demographics and other factors. Hazardous areas often those whose residents included people of color were outlined in red on HOLC maps.