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The wailing newborn had just gone from purple to pink when researchers from Duke University whisked her out of the delivery ward and started collecting fingernail clippings and saliva swabs.

Nov 29, 2005· Duke University Blue Devils ... Duke was the soccer competition site for the United States Olympic Festival with the gold medal game playing host .

May 29, 2020· Small-scale gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon poses a health hazard not only to the miners and communities near where mercury is used to extract gold from ore but also to .

Jun 01, 2020· Artisanal mining might sound quaint, but it is usually criminal activity and results in widespread environmental damage. It also is the largest source of mercury pollution in .

May 28, 2020· Small-scale gold mining in the Peruvian Amazon poses a health hazard not only to miners but also to nearby communities. Contrary to common assumption that communities closest to mining bear the brunt of exposure, new evidence shows that the highest non-occupational mercury exposures occur in native communities hundreds of kilometers away from mining.

Nov 26, 2018· Materials scientists at Duke University and UC San Diego have discovered a new class of carbides expected to be among the hardest materials with the highest melting points in existence. Made from inexpensive metals, the new materials may soon find use in a wide range of industries from machinery and hardware to aerospace.

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IMAGE: Duke researcher Helena Frischtak, (right front) administers psychological assessments with a pair of Peruvian children during a study of mercury contamination near small-scale gold mining ...

Legal and illegal gold mining in the Madre de Dios area cause several environmental concerns linked with mercury pollution and deforestation, which make hydrological and sediment transport processes central for any assessment of ongoing

Environmental Epidemiology in Latin America: Impacts of Artisanal Gold Mining in the Peruvian Amazon. 2018 - 2019 Bass Connections Faculty Team Leader. Data+ Project Lead. 2017

For the past five years, Professor Campbell Harvey has taught an Innovation and Cryptoventures course at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business, focusing on bitcoin and other applications of the underlying blockchain technology. Harvey was 2016 president of the American Finance Association and is an internationally recognized expert in portfolio management, asset allocation, the cost of ...

The Duke Spine Center - Clinic 1B/1C is North Carolina's most comprehensive, interdisciplinary care center for people with back pain, neck pain and spine abnormalities. Our team of neurosurgeons, orthopaedic spine surgeons, physiatrists, physical therapists and behavioral health counselors provide patients with a wide range of surgical and nonsurgical options, as well as access to state-of ...

May 28, 2020· Duke researcher Helena Frischtak, (right front) administers psychological assessments with a pair of Peruvian children during a study of mercury contamination near small-scale gold mining.

In the Meyer lab, we work on a wide range of stressors and contaminants, including polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, ultraviolet radiation, nanoparticles, mycotoxins, and complex environmental mixtures such as those found at Superfund sites, indoor and outdor air pollution, and mining-associated pollution.

May 22, 2020· DURHAM, N.C. – A new study by researchers at Duke University and RTI International finds that reusing oilfield water that's been mixed with surface water to irrigate farms in the Cawelo Water District of California's Kern County does not pose major health risks, as .

Silver mining is the resource extraction of silver by mining.. Silver is found in a native form very rarely as nuggets, but more usually combined with sulfur, arsenic, antimony, or chlorine and in various ores such as argentite (Ag 2 S), chlorargyrite ("horn silver," AgCl), and galena (a lead ore often containing significant amounts of silver). As silver is often found in conjunction with ...

Benjamin J Wiley. Professor of Chemistry. In the Wiley Group, we make new nanomaterials by controlling the assembly of atoms in solution, and explore applications for nanomaterials in medicine, catalysis, plasmonics, and electronics.

Oct 11, 2011· While gold prices increased by an average of 18 percent annually over the past decade, the researchers found that deforestation in gold-mining areas .

Jun 01, 2020· Nor have governments addressed legacy pollution and deforestation from gold mining. Illegal artisanal gold mining is a major source of income for local communities in places like the Madre de Dios region of Peru. As long as people all over the world continue to demand more gold, we believe that they are just as responsible as miners and local ...

May 28, 2020· Gold is everywhere in modern life, from jewelry to electronics to smartphones. The global electronics industry alone uses 280 tons annually. And that demand keeps growing. But most people know little about the environmental impacts of gold mining. About 15% of world gold .

In their place were sun-baked dunes and polluted ponds created by illegal gold-mining. Silman, a conservation biologist at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, was there to ...

Jul 21, 2016· The mining company, Nautilus Minerals, has invested heavily in mining machinery. However, resources needed for independent scientific assessment at those depths are essentially non-existent. ... M.S. and PhD. from Duke University, 27 honorary degrees and has authored more than 200 scientific, technical and popular publications including 13 ...

Jul 05, 2020· Illegal artisanal gold mining is a major source of income for local communities in places like the Madre de Dios region of Peru. ... and Jasmine Parham at the Duke University. Read the original ...

Duke University. (2020, May 28). Gold mining with mercury poses health threats for miles downstream: Assumption that distance lowers risk doesn't hold up. ScienceDaily. Retrieved July 20, 2020 ...
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