The bay's welcome lack of development is partly an effect of environmental progressivism (in 1998, the government declared northern Palawan a protected area) and partly an emblem of the country's late-blooming tourism industry.

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But soon after, I developed a novel mathematical model which can be used by doctors and environmental specialists to quantify the effect of the pollutants on the lung function as measured by the peak expiratory flow rate-- which is essentially how much a person can breathe out in one breath.

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One interesting point about this observation is that it requires both a genetic input (the 7R variant) and an environmental one (the network of friends) to take effect.

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And Environment Minister Lord de Mauley is back before the Environmental Audit Committee (at 2.15pm) as it continues its long investigation into the effect of neonicitinoid pesticides on pollinating insects.

BBC: Week ahead in committees

The head of the panel said all the large environmental population based studies done in the VSD were en effect useless, but as bad as they were they were an improvement the other two the Denmark studies.

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Natural gas has other advantages over coal: It produces far fewer emissions of toxic chemicals and gases that contribute to climate change, key attributes as tougher environmental rules go into effect.

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