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Study Shows Link Between Air Pollution and Lung Cancer Susceptibility

According to a research article published recently in eLife, researchers have discovered a mechanism that enlightens how fine air pollution particles may lead to lung cancer.

20 Apr 2022

Scientists Predict How Oil and Gas Wells Heat Up the Permafrost in the Arctic region

Skoltech scientists and their partners from Sergeev Institute of Environmental Geoscience of RAS, with support from the R&D unit of TotalEnergies, have predicted how oil and gas wells heat up the permafrost around them.

20 Apr 2022

Study Predicts Thawing of Gas-saturated Permafrost Around Oil and Gas Wells of Russian Arctic

20 Apr 2022

Microplastics in the Food Chain

Plastic rubbish is everywhere and now broken-down microplastics have been found in variable concentrations in blue mussels and water within the intertidal zone at some of southern Australia’s most popular and more remote beaches.

20 Apr 2022

Microplastics are Finding Their Way into Human Food Supplies

Plastic rubbish has been found all over the place and currently, broken-down microplastics are discovered in variable concentrations in water and blue mussels and inside the intertidal zone at a few of the most famous and highly remote beaches in southern Australia.

19 Apr 2022

PLA Plastics Do Not Degrade in the Marine Environment Any Faster Than Plastics

A new study headed by the Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona, in which the Instituto de Investigaciones Mariñas (IIM-CSIC) in Vigo has also participated, has disclosed the fact that PLA plastic, of biological and biodegradable origin, does not degrade in the marine environment any faster compared to plastics obtained from petroleum—polystyrene, polystyrene, or polyethylene.

13 Apr 2022

Study Discusses Drinking Water, Fracking and Infant Health

For the first-ever time, a new study recorded the pollution of public water supplies caused as a result of shale gas development. This is generally called fracking and it has a negative impact on infant health.

12 Apr 2022

Polystyrene Waste Turned into Useful Benzoic Acid with the Help of Oxygen and Light

Polystyrene, a variety of plastic that contributes to a third of landfill waste globally, is widely used to make numerous products such as Styrofoam egg cartons, red drinking cups, and hard plastic compact disk cases.

12 Apr 2022

Tropical Cities Account for 180,000 Excess Deaths Due to Air Pollution

A study directed by scientists at University College London (UCL) and the University of Birmingham has exposed that approximately 180,000 avoidable fatalities spanning 14 years in rapidly expanding tropical cities were caused by a swift increase in emerging air pollution,

11 Apr 2022

Experts Gather to Discuss the Success of Policies Designed to Tackle the Global Plastic Pollution Crisis

Experts from around the globe are meeting this week to analyze the success of policies that have been specifically developed to handle the plastic pollution crisis that is taking place globally.

7 Apr 2022