Category: Environment
Children’s Feces Contain Ten Times More Microplastics than Those of Adults
Babies are proportionally more exposed to plastic than adults because of Baby bottles, toys, floor mats, and pacifiers. Even newborn babies’ first stools are contaminated! The impact of this …
What Is Considered Good Air Quality in the US Is Still Dangerous to Health
Most weather forecast services also provide information about local air quality which is determined by the concentration of various pollutants and fine particles. But even if air quality is …Metallocapt: French Researchers Develop a Process That Can Recover Platinum and Other Metals from Wastewater
French researchers at the University of Strasbourg have developed a process capable of binding metal ions found in wastewater and then recovering them to transform them into metals. Heavy …
New Work Explains How Deforestation and Afforestation Affect Global Water Cycle
In a paper published in Nature Geoscience, a team of researchers from different countries has reported the findings from their assessment of the impact of deforestation and afforestation projects …
Scientists Have Found How Key Atlantic Ocean Circulation System Could Collapse
Concerns have been raised about the effects of global warming on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) as regards a possible collapse. Researchers have now discovered the mechanism that …
In the Last 52 Years Earth Has Lost over 69% Of Its Wildlife, an Alarming Trend
Over the past 52 years, wildlife loss has been estimated at more than two-thirds. In the run-up to the upcoming COP15 on biodiversity, WWF’s new report calls on governments …
Things the NHS Must Consider to Reduce Its Carbon Footprint and Go Green
The UK’s national health service, the NHS, is one of the largest single-payer healthcare systems in the world. It is an enormous, multi-faceted organization with innumerable interconnected parts and …
Over a Tenth of World’s Terrestrial Genetic Diversity Probably Already Lost
The United Nations (UN) has plans for the protection of genetic diversity across the world. But a new study suggests that it may have already missed its target of …