Current genome sequencing efforts for several fish models such as zebrafish, medaka, and fathead minnow make these fish potential candidates for large-scale efforts to incorporate genomics technologies in an effort to understand the mechanistic toxicity pathways for environmental stressors (Miracle and Ankley 2005).
If this government threw its true weight behind alternative energy, fuel efficiency and real environmental policies, miracles could be worked.
In this context, "ecotoxicogenomics" is defined as the study of gene and protein expression in wild animal species that is important in understanding responses to environmental toxicant exposures (Miracle and Ankley 2005; Snape et al. 2004).
DDT, the miracle insecticide turned environmental bogeyman, is once again playing an important role in public health.
Starting around World War II, they were curbed with DDT, the miracle insecticide turned environmental threat and perhaps perceived as a savior again.
Yet the same economic miracle has wreaked environmental havoc.
But Richard Martinez, the chief environmental officer of the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company in Marysville, Ohio, a major retailer of lawn fertilizers, said April 1 was an artificial boundary.
Rich Martinez, chief environmental officer for the Scotts Miracle-Gro Company, has a degree in chemical engineering and has spent most of the past 30 years working in research and development and strategic planning for the company.
I recently heard about the most astonishing corporate crime: the American company, Scotts Miracle-Gro, violated US federal environmental laws by manufacturing and selling poisoned birdseed for more than two years.
Kingsolver, it emerges, is hardly unsuited to her new project, documented in "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle," an engaging amalgam of memoir, environmental reporting and how-to book.
