A new study by radiologists found that middle-aged men and women who do lots of exercise, and particularly high impact activities like running and jumping, may be unknowingly causing damage to their knees and putting themselves at greater risk of developing osteoarthritis. By implication, low impact activities like swimming and cycling may protect damaged and healthy joints they said, although further research is needed to confirm this.

Radon is a colorless and odorless radioactive gas that is produced by the radioactive decay of radium. Radium is a product of uranium decay and is found in trace amounts naturally in nearly all rocks, soils, and groundwater as well as building materials, plants, animals, and the human body. Radon concentration is expressed as the amount of radiation that would be emitted by radon and its decay products in a liter of air; thus the units are picocuries per liter (pCi/L).

The European Medicines Agency has recommended the granting of marketing authorisations under exceptional circumstances for two inactivated Bluetongue vaccines for sheep and cattle respectively through the centralised procedure. These recommendations will add two additional vaccines to the therapeutic arsenal of bluetongue vaccines.

The NFU has criticised Ministers’ apparent endorsement of the Lancet’s report on health and climate change saying that it demonstrates poor judgement on their part. The report published today offers simplistic solutions without recognising the complex challenges the food system faces or the strategies and practical measures that the industry is developing with Defra.

From January 2010, for the first time, sports and remedial therapists in the UK will be regulated. The announcement was delivered by the UK wide regulator, the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) which opened its register earlier this year in the interests of protecting the public and setting standards within the industry.

From January 2010, for the first time, sports and remedial therapists in the UK will be regulated. The announcement was delivered by the UK wide regulator, the Complementary and Natural Healthcare Council (CNHC) which opened its register earlier this year in the interests of protecting the public and setting standards within the industry…

The goal of the new settlement policy for refugees and survivors of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 was to provide new accommodation for all who needed it. However, even though people were housed, a new thesis from the University of Gothenburg reveals that living conditions in the countryside did not improve. The thesis analyses the new settlement policy that was put in place to deal with the major problems that arose out of the genocide in 1994.

Climate change could increase the likelihood of civil war in sub-Saharan Africa by over 50 percent within the next two decades, according to a new study led by a team of researchers at University of California, Berkeley, and published in the online issue of the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).

Two Kent State University assistant professors recently received funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to continue research beneficial to understanding the environment. The three grants total $890,000. Christopher Blackwood, assistant professor in the Department of Biological Sciences, was awarded grants to support two separate research projects.

The annual rate of increase in carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels has more than tripled in this decade, compared to the 1990s, reports an international consortium of scientists, who paint a bleak picture of the Earth’s future unless “CO2 emissions [are] drastically reduced.” These CO2 emissions increased at a rate of 3.4% per year from 2000 to 2008, in contrast to 1% each year in the previous decade, scientists from the Global Carbon Project report in Nature Geoscience.