Newcastle’s toxic legacy: soil metals and hydrocarbons pose health risk
25 January 2017
Contaminating metals and hydrocarbons could be posing a significant health risk to residents of the industrial city of Newcastle Lead …
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VegeSafe community program tracks urban soil environmental pollution
17 January 2017
Forty per cent of Sydney’s residential gardens exceed the recommended Australian soil lead guidelines City of Sydney and Inner West …
‘Miner’s myth’ myth busters: exploring whether contamination in mining towns was always there
22 March 2016
A Macquarie University study has pursued multiple lines of evidence to bust the ‘miner’s myth’ that exists in Broken Hill …
Childhood exposure to environmental lead linked to aggressive behaviours and death by assault
17 February 2016
Australian children who are exposed to higher levels of environmental lead are more likely in early adulthood to show increased …
Toxic metals exposures lower school scores and slow childhood development in Australia’s mining and smelting communities
7 October 2015
High levels of toxic metals, found in and near mining towns, could be negatively influencing the neurological development of children …
Study shows widespread contamination in central NSW and other areas from use of lead in water supply pipelines
13 May 2015
A new study has found use of lead solder joints in an above ground water supply pipeline has resulted in …
Playground washing only temporary solution to children’s exposure to lead dust
26 March 2015
A new study has found that while the washing of playground equipment in mining towns does reduce children’s exposure to …
Study shows port is the source of Townsville toxins
27 February 2015
Dust with metals (arsenic, cadmium, lead and nickel) above state and international benchmarks are falling daily onto inner-city Townsville playgrounds. …
VegeSafe initiative recognised with Green Lifestyle award
22 October 2014
The Faculty of Science’s community soil testing program, VegeSafe, has been highly commended in the Garden – Company category in …
Toxic playgrounds: Broken Hill kids exposed to poisonous dust
17 October 2014
By Mark Taylor In the shadows of Broken Hill’s rich mining history lies a legacy of contamination and regulatory failure …
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