The group has now also developed a partnership with the Galveston County Health District to display the environmental flags at each tower when water quality is less than optimal.
Now, Galveston swimmers can look for a new "environmental alert" flag.
They downplay the assertion that Poland will benefit, economically or otherwise, and point to the environmental red flags being waved from across the water in the US.
But the renewed attention to hydropower, which accounts for about 16 percent of the global electricity mix, comes with environmental red flags.
"We think there are gene environment interactions with all these [cases]." However, even with the many environmental red flags that have been raised so far, the field of investigation remains vast.
The versatile gels, described in this week's issue of Nature, could lead to new tools for diagnosing illness, flagging environmental hazards, and monitoring industrial processes.
Marchers point to how their presence has galvanized flagging local environmental organizations.
The nine-day voyage to the Smeerenburg glacier, part of the Svalbard archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, was designed to flag up the environmental threats posed by climate change and oil drilling.
Letters are welcome via e-mail to [email protected] of the futureSIR – You do well to flag up the environmental and economic ambiguities of fuel-ethanol production ("Dirty as well as dear?", January 17th).
And while the jury is still out on whether there is a real "sperm decline" and what that means for fertility, scientists say if the little swimmers are truly changing, it may be a red flag for harmful environmental toxins or even physiological changes in the human body.
