Despite the widespread belief that recycling plastic can help alleviate the issue of pollution, only nine percent of plastic is actually recycled worldwide, with the rest ending up in landfills, including oceans, causing detrimental marine pollution. This global issue is exacerbated by the United States, which generates the most plastic pollution and recycles a mere … Read more
The oceans and large seas of the planet currently accumulate some 170 trillion pieces of plastic, a figure that is equivalent to some 21,000 polluting particles for each of the people who inhabit the Earth (8,000 million). Marine pollution by plastics amounts to approximately 2.4 million tons, its presence has accelerated in the last three … Read more
The scientists behind a new paper, published in the Journal of Hazardous Materials, have discovered a new disease in seabirds, caused directly by exposure to plastics. The condition, called ‘plasticosis’, represents the first case of fibrosis induced by plastic consumption in wild animals, the researchers say. Disease caused by plastic in birds Birds with the disease have … Read more
Plastic consumption in G20 countries could nearly double by mid-century unless a treaty is made for new global policies to reduce its use, says research published Monday by the Back to Blue initiative. The report, led by experts from Economist Impact and the Nippon Foundation, reveals that without any policy intervention to boost recycling or … Read more
Air pollution from fossil fuels could account for nearly one in five deaths globally, according to new research from Harvard University in collaboration with the University of Birmingham, the University of Leicester and University College London. The research finds that air pollution from burning fossil fuels accounted for around 10 million premature deaths in 2012 … Read more
Turning to the sky and looking at the stars at dusk could no longer be a reality. A new study suggests that the thousands of stars and constellations that make up our skies lose visibility year after year due to light pollution. The data, published in the journal Science, observations made between 2011 and 2022 by volunteers … Read more
A new study from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), moderate levels of two outdoor air pollutants, ozone and particulate matter (PM), are associated with non-viral asthma attacks in children and adolescents living in low-income urban areas and in molecular changes of their airways. Polluted air means more Asthma attacks In the research, published … Read more
The advancement of a report to be published later this year shows that unless the measures against plastic are resounding, this type of contamination will reach worrying levels in the next three decades. According to a new report from the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), by 2060 the amount of plastic waste generated … Read more
Up to 75% of everything brown bears eat comes from garbage, which means that their frequency of scavenging is much higher than eating wild plant matter, crops, and even hunted sheep,”
A burning fireplace or a brazier can kill in just half an hour. A man and a woman were found dead inside a nightclub in Haryana’s Gurugram under mysterious circumstances, Preliminary investigations have indicated that the death was due to suffocation from smoke from a burning fireplace inside the room. According to the police, the … Read more
