Rare Condors Being Poisoned by Bullets in Their Food, Study Confirms
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Shotgun pellets and other ammunition left in carcasses are giving many of the nearly extinct vultures lead poisoning, a new study shows.
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More than 30 years after the Vietnam War ended, the poisonous legacy of Agent Orange has emerged anew with a scientific study that has found extraordinarily high levels of health-threatening contamination at the former U.S. air base at Danang.
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The Food Standards Agency says it is investigating whether bird flu-infected meat could have got into the food chain.
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A new study finds more than a thousand types of plant, bird, mammal and invertebrate are now endangered.
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Even brief exposure to secondhand smoke  in bars and restaurants can result in measurable levels of a  toxin in workers&#39; bodies that is known to cause lung cancer,  U.S. researchers said on Thursday.
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British scientists probing the death of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko said on Friday a second man had been poisoned by radiation. Media reports said the man was an Italian he met at a London restaurant.
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The Colombian poison-dart frog and six South Pacific bird species use the same rare neurotoxin in their skin and feathers. Now researchers say the animals may eat beetles to obtain the poison.
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Western tourists and businessmen who are illegally buying tiger skins in China are responsible for the slaughter of one of the world&#39;s most endangered species, an investigation by a British charity has found.
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Food safety officials last night warned consumers eating potatoes and sweet potatoes to check their storage and condition after toxins in vegetables deemed unfit for human consumption were thought responsible for killing six cows
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By CHRISTINE DELL'AMORE Polonium-210, the rare radioactive substance that fatally poisoned a Russian ex-spy, doesn't pose a threat to most.
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For several decades researchers have studied toxin levels in Arctic peoples and wildlife and tracked pollution sources. Peter Ross is a marine mammal toxicologist with the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans in Sidney, British Columbia.
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A new research has revealed that smokers pump out clouds of poisonous toxins, which can be a serious health hazard for those around them.
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A woman who slipped rat poison into food at a tax office canteen in central China, killing one person and injuring 11, has killed herself using poison, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
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British health experts investigating the cause of death of a former Russian spy from suspected poisoning said on Friday they had found large quantities of a highly toxic radioactive isotope on his body.
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New testing on the type of ammunition used in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy raises questions about whether Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone, according to a study by researchers at Texas A&amp;M University
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Authorities in far western China have gone into battle against a plague of rodents by using &quot;hot-shot&quot; eagles and foxes, state media reported on Thursday.
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The research is based on experiments with mice, but if it is borne out in other species, it may suggest that no part of an infected animal is safe to eat.