Airborne contamination continues to cross the western states, the new data shows, and Boise has seen thehighestconcentrations of radioactive isotopes in rain so far.
An earlier study involving leukaemia cells yielded even more impressive results - this could be because leukaemia cells have one of thehighest iron concentrations among cancer cells.
According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, a scientific intergovernmental body, concentrations of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere are now at their highest levels for at least 650, 000 years.