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Health without wealth: eat well for less

Edit The Guardian 18 Sep 2016
Bin the pricey coconut oil, goji berries and acai. Stick to simple ingredients and principles, say our experts Dara Mohammadi and Dr Ali Khavandi ... Because they contain artery-relaxing nitrates, familiar vegetables such as spinach, lettuce and radishes, can lower blood pressure ... The roasted beets, too, are rich in artery-relaxing nitrates that can lower blood pressure (it’s why athletes drink beetroot juice to improve their endurance) ... ....

Mof, KKP and Polri Thwarted Ammonium Nitrate Smuggling (Ministry of Finance of the Republic of Indonesia)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Sep 2016
Jakarta, 13/09/2016 MoF - The Ministry of Finance (MoF) in collaboration with Ministry of Maritime Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) as well as Indonesian National Police managed to thwart three smuggling attempts of Ammonium Nitrate, which is frequently used for coral destruction activities ... Quoted from the press statement, a total of 166,475 kg Ammonium Nitrate worth IDR24.97 billion were seized....

Corn is King, but Soybeans Have an Impact Too (IIHR — Hydroscience & Engineering)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Sep 2016
Iowa's streams, lakes, and aquifers suffer from excess nitrate and phosphorous. Early water-quality data from around 1900 to 1950 show stream nitrate slowly but steadily increasing, as more of the state's area was brought into crop production ... Journal articles in 2009 (1) and 2016 (2) seemed to show there was more to the story-the role of soybeans in transport of nitrate from farmed fields to the stream network....

UniSey gets new research tools

Edit Nation 16 Sep 2016
16-September-2016. The University of Seychelles has received some new sophisticated water research equipment from the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) in the United Kingdom. They include a CTD (conductivity, temperature and depth sensor), nitrate, phosphate and pH sensors, desktop photo spectrofluormeter and nitrate sensor packages ... Researchers working on water quality will also be able to use them ... ....

GM Seeks One-Year Delay in Recalling 980,000 Takata Airbags

Edit Bloomberg 16 Sep 2016
General Motors Co. is asking U.S ... Of 44,000 deployments of Takata airbags in the group, none ruptured, according to the company ... The agency has ordered that all vehicles with air-bag inflators that use ammonium nitrate-based propellant without a desiccant be recalled ... history. NHTSA has identified a combination of time, exposure to moisture and fluctuating high temperatures as the highest risks in making ammonium nitrate unstable ... ....

High levels of nitrate in German groundwater, drinking water

Edit Deutsche Welle 16 Sep 2016
Groundwater in up to one third of Germany contains nitrate levels of over 50 milligrams per liter. Politicians across spectrum have pointed the finger at farmers and called for stricter regulations on fertilizers ... ....

UT doctoral student honored for identifying how climate change threatens food quality (The University of Toledo)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Sep 2016
(Source. The University of Toledo) ... Jayawardena ... However, when combined, researchers saw a large decrease in the uptake rate of soil nitrate and ammonium through the roots ... Jayawardena's work also shows that the combination of heat and carbon dioxide is bad for the plant in terms of being able to convert inorganic nitrogen, like nitrate and ammonium, into organic form, like protein, which is the form of nitrogen that humans require....

Toxins at waste site infect water

Edit The Times of India 16 Sep 2016
Gurgaon. The worst fears about a toxic discharge from the defunct Bandhwari waste treatment plant in the Aravalis poisoning the environment have come true ... The only relief, if one can call it so, is that the contamination does not appear to have spread too far ... The HSPCB official also agreed ... Kamboj said since the waste is not being treated, the leachate may contain several harmful pollutants like nitrates, sulphate and heavy metals....

Leachate threat to Gurgaon groundwater

Edit The Times of India 16 Sep 2016
GURGAON. The worst fears of green activists about contamination of groundwater due to flow of leachate from the defunct Bandhwari waste treatment plant seem to be slowly turning into a reality ... The only relief is the contamination has not spread far ... The HSPCB official also agreed ... Kamboj said since the waste is not being treated, the leachate may contain several harmful pollutants like nitrates, sulphate and heavy metals ... RELATED....

Fiat Chrysler recalls 1.9m vehicles over defect responsible for three deaths

Edit The Guardian 16 Sep 2016
Recall includes several Chrysler, Dodge and Jeep models and aims to resolve a defect in a computer that controls deployment of airbags and seat-belt tighteners. @samthielman ... A spokesman for Fiat Chrysler said the company would not disclose who had made the defective part ... Read more ... Takata, the Japanese manufacturer of airbag controllers that supplies Toyota, Nissan and Honda, used ammonium nitrate to expand airbags ... ....

Speciality chemicals can be next mega trend; 15 stocks more than doubled investors wealth

Edit The Times of India 16 Sep 2016
NEW DELHI ... The industry accounts for a marginal 3 per cent of the global specialty chemicals market ... "The global chemical industry is valued at about $3 trillion in 2001 ... As much as 15 stocks on the BSE have more than doubled investors wealth in the last 1 year which includes names like Ganesh Benzo, IOL Chemicals, Gujarat Alkalies, Kilpest India, Jyoti Resins, Super Crop Safe, Balaji Amines, Meghmani Org, Deepak Nitrate etc ... Syngenta ... ....

World Chess Championship Match 2016 (World Chess Federation)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Sep 2016
(Source. World Chess Federation). The World Chess Championship Match 2016 to become the first of any sport to be broadcast in 360° Virtual Reality ... A spokesperson for Livestream said ... Mr Merenzon said ... The global business joins PhosAgro, the global fertiliser and nitrates group, as a main sponsor for the eagerly awaited World Chess Championship Match in New York, which is taking place between 11-30 November ... (noodl. 35395749) ....

U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin Champions Water Infrastructure and Safe Drinking Water Investments Passed by U.S. Senate Today (Tammy Baldwin)

Edit Public Technologies 16 Sep 2016
(Source. Tammy Baldwin) 09.15.16. WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S ... Senate ... Senator Baldwin helped shape WRDA by leading water improvement efforts. ... The Water Technology Acceleration Act, authored by Senator Baldwin earlier this year, accelerates the development and deployment of water technologies to solve our most pressing water challenges, including lead safety, phosphorous reduction and treatment of bacteria and nitrates ... The True LEADership Act....
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