The chemical plant explosion in the Chinese city of Harbin has dumped a 50-mile long slick of benzene into the city's river.
Martyn T. Smith, UC Berkeley professor of environmental health sciences, discusses the benzene health effects of Harbin's toxic spill on NPR's "The World." The show aired November 25, 2005.
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Training graduate students to become leaders in public health research and professional practice at the interface of environment and health.
Graduate programs in the Environmental Health Sciences division at UC Berkeley provide opportunities for students to learn how human populations—especially the most vulnerable members of society, such as young children, pregnant women, workers, and the poor—are affected by environmental exposures, ranging from microbial and chemical contamination of water, air and other media, to climate change, industrialization, and unplanned urbanization.
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