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This document is also available as a PDF. SCIENCE NEWS BRIEFING SCIENCE NEWS BRIEFING PEDIATRICS Mold can make lungs bleed ATLANTA - Pediatricians unable to trace the cause of bleeding lungs
in infants should ask parents whether they've had severe water damage
in their homes, a national pediatricians group recommended Monday.
Water damage in wood, wallpaper, ceiling tiles and paper products
can sometimes give rise to toxic mold called stachybotrys that can
attack the growing lungs of infants and cause bleeding.
Bleeding lungs among infants is rare in the United States. About
100 cases have been reported in the past four years, but it is not
known how many are attributable to toxic molds in the home. SEISMOLOGY China sets up quake monitors BEIJING - China has started building its first large-scale earthquake
monitoring system to better predict when tremors could strike, the
People's Daily said today.
The $16 million satellite-based system would use lasers and other
technology to measure movements in the Earth's crust that could signal
an imminent earthquake, the newspaper said.
Because crust monitoring technology was limited for a long time,
China was only able to carry out earthquake observations at a few
sites and within a small scope,'' it said.
The project was listed as one of three key scientific undertakings
for the 1996-2000 period and would be completed in 2001, the paper
said. MOUNTAINEERING Climbers will clean up Everest SAN FRANCISCO - A team of North American climbers left Saturday
on a mission to tidy up Mount Everest.
The 15-member Environmental Everest Expedition is the latest in
a series of efforts aimed at removing some of the hundreds of oxygen
canisters, fuel containers and batteries that have been left behind
on the world's tallest mountain, team doctor Mark Cole said. ENVIRONMENT California recycles a big way 1 of 2 7/25/99 3:41 PM Printable Document-Electric Library Personal Edition http://business.elibrary.com/s/elbe/getd...ydocid=271268@library_f&dtype=0~0&dinst= Citing a successful recycling program, state officials say Californians
are about to recycle the 100 billionth can or bottle since the statewide
recycling program became law 12 years ago. The milestone is expected
this month.
At a rate of 19,000 containers a minute, Californians are recycling
80 percent of the glass, aluminum and plastic tagged with the state
redemption logo, according to the state Division of Recycling. Copyright © 1998, Denver Publishing Co. Rocky Mountain News wire services, SCIENCE NEWS BRIEFING. , Denver Rocky Mountain News,
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