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EarlyBirds is Helping Businesses Understand the Value of Clean Technology

EarlyBirds, an Australian firm that has created a business to business (B2B) open innovation ecosystem that provides a way for early adopters, innovators, and subject matter experts (SMEs) to meet and develop partnerships to hasten technology advancement and

24 May 2022

Study Suggests People at High Risk of Heart Rhythm Disorder Must Check Daily Pollution Levels

As per the study presented recently at Heart Failure 2022, a scientific congress of the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), fatal arrhythmias are more usual on days with highly polluted air.

23 May 2022

Light Pollution Can Interfere with the Remarkable Navigational Abilities of Monarchs, Study Says

Biologists from the University of Cincinnati state that nighttime light pollution could intervene with the exceptional navigational abilities of monarchs. Monarchs travel as far as Canada to Mexico and back at the time of their multi-generational migration.

23 May 2022

Report: Nine Million Deaths Attributable to Pollution in 2019

Pollution was responsible for nine million deaths in 2019 – equivalent to one in six deaths worldwide – a number virtually unchanged since the last analysis in 2015.

19 May 2022

Increased Heavy Metal Levels in Rivers can Lead to Higher Levels of Antibiotic Resistance

A new study performed by the Newcastle University and the Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi measured metal and antibiotic resistance in sediments from the Ganges and Yamuna Rivers in India and streams in the River Tyne catchment.

17 May 2022

Eliminating Air Pollution Emissions in the United States Would Help Reduce Premature Death Rates, Study Finds

According to a new study performed by the researchers at the Wisconsin–Madison University, removing air pollution emissions from energy-related activities in the United States would help avoid over 50,000 premature deaths annually and offer over $600 billion in benefits every year from avoided illness and death.

17 May 2022

Novel Method for Mapping the Amount of Plastic Pollution in River Habitats

Plastic pollution is a significant universal problem but grasping the scale of the issue could be difficult. In a recent study performed, scientists from the University of Tsukuba have come up with a novel technique for mapping plastic litter across rivers.

16 May 2022

Farmlands in Europe Considered to be the Biggest Global Reservoir of Microplastics

A new study has shown that farmlands present throughout Europe are possibly considered the greatest global reservoir of microplastics as a result of the high concentrations found in fertilizers that are derived from sewage sludge.

9 May 2022

Researchers Highlight the Rise in Greenhouse Gas Emissions Linked to Global Trade of Agricultural Goods

Earth system scientists at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have drawn the clearest line yet connecting consumers of agricultural produce in wealthier countries in Asia, Europe and North America with a growth in greenhouse gas emissions in less-developed nations, mostly in the Southern Hemisphere.

9 May 2022

Eco-Friendly Burgers: Substituting Beef with Microbial Protein

Researchers claim that replacing meat products with a microbial protein - a meat alternative produced in fermentation tanks - could reduce deforestation by 50% by the year 2050.

5 May 2022