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- noun The potential for biological, chemical or physical
stressors to affectecosystems .
Etymologies
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EPA issued a notice to the company Monsanto to submit human health and ecotoxicity data in September 2010.
Roundup: Birth Defects Caused By World's Top-Selling Weedkiller, Scientists Say 2011
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EPA issued a notice to the company Monsanto to submit human health and ecotoxicity data in September 2010.
Roundup: Birth Defects Caused By World's Top-Selling Weedkiller, Scientists Say 2011
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Aquatic ecotoxicity: Paper life cycle contributes 37.04% less
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President Barack Obama is in Louisiana today, so these findings bear repeating: BP knew in all probability where a Gulf of Mexico oil leak would go; the company knows it is pouring millions of gallons of chemicals untested for ecotoxicity near endangered wetlands; and BP knew it could not assure us that our environment will ever be back to normal.
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Both products are superior to formaldehyde-resin plywood from the perspective of ecotoxicity and natural resource conservation.
Alternatives for significant uses of formaldehyde in Massachusetts 2008
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The formaldehyde-based resin in conventional plywood has minor ecotoxicity.
Alternatives for significant uses of formaldehyde in Massachusetts 2008
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Ayres also argues that the exergy of waste streams is a proxy for their potential ecotoxicity or harm to the environment, at least in general terms.
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Ayres and Martiñas also argue that the exergy of waste streams is a proxy for their potential ecotoxicity or harm to the environment, at least in general terms.
Net energy analysis 2008
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Ayres and Martiñas (1995) also argue that the exergy of waste streams is a proxy for their potential ecotoxicity or harm to the environment, at least in general terms.
Energy quality 2008
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This book reviews the current status of the inter-dependence of the chemistry and ecotoxicity of agrochemicals and related substances.
1. Designing integrated pest management for sustainable and productive futures. 1992
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