Category: Environment

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The Crowther Lab at ETH Zurich investigates nature-based solutions to climate change. In their latest study the researchers showed for the first time where in the world new trees could grow and how much carbon they would store.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Technology is changing almost faster than we can keep up, with new smart technologies changing the way we live and work, an endless stream of helpful new apps to add to our phones….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – New York, NY — For decades, scientists studying a key climate phenomenon have been grappling with contradictory data that have threated to undermine confidence in the reliability of climate models overall.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – It happens to the best of us. We let a piece of fruit get a little too ripe on the kitchen counter and before we know it we’re swatting at swarms of hungry fruit flies.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – To control pest outbreaks, airplanes sprayed more than 6,280 tons of dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT) onto forests in New Brunswick, Canada, between 1952 and 1968, according to Environment Canada.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – With climate change and resource management crises making international headlines, the industries building our modern world have taken notice.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The ubiquitous plastic bag is handy for transporting groceries and other items home from the store. However, this convenience takes a toll on the environment, with plastic debris littering land and waterways.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The price tag for cutting global emissions may seem expensive, until the human toll of deaths from air pollution and climate change are factored in, new research says.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Choosing to smoke cigarettes results in a score of unpleasant side effects such as increased chances of developing upper respiratory infections, COPD and lung cancer.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – In celebration of Earth Day this month, an online Environmental Survey can help families and classroom students score their environmental habits and get practical tips on how to conserve energy, save water, and reduce waste and pollution.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Humans’ love for meat could be hurting the planet. Many of the steps involved in the meat supply chain result in greenhouse gas emissions. But a new international study in ACS’ Environmental Science & Technology evaluates several strategies that could reduce these environmental effects.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The scientific community has long held an understanding about the effect of temperature on sperm production in mammals, but this new study sheds light on how spermatogenesis in insects is hampered at extreme temperatures.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Air pollution from diesel engines may worsen allergy-induced lung impairment more when tiny particles are filtered from the exhaust than when they are not

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – The next U.S. presidential election is being transformed because children everywhere, watching in disbelief as grownups fail to address the climate crisis, are launching their own climate movements.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Sea-level rise associated with climate change is a concern for many island and coastal communities. While the dangers may seem far off for large coastal cities like Miami or New Orleans….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – A recent Boston University (BU) study tracking satellite data of vegetation coverage found that the world is indeed getting greener overall, largely thanks to an ambitious reforestation program underway in China.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – EAST LANSING, Mich. – You might think that mowing fields wouldn’t benefit monarch butterfly populations. New research from Michigan State University, however, shows that disturbances like mowing ­– at key times – might help boost the iconic butterfly’s numbers.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Uniontown, Ala., a low-income, predominantly black community located in the state’s Black Belt, made the national news back in 2010, when 4 million tons of coal ash were shipped to its Arrowhead Landfill….

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Rockville, Md. — A new review of more than 140 studies explores the physiological dangers that climate change will likely have on animal life, including humans.

(HealthNewsDigest.com) – Creating worldwide change isn’t done with just one person; it has to involve everyone. In order to involve more people in the efforts to help the environment, it’s important to get younger generations involved in the effort.