Honeybees are bioindicators of environmental pollution in the area, since they get coated in everything that there is in the environment, including pollutants, and they end up taking it all back to their beehives. Honeybees sample a significant range of spaces, because they have a wide flight range, becoming covered with whatever build-up is in ...
People will give you several reasons to quit smoking, which likely revolve around how the habit is bad for you, damaging your health, and racking up unnecessary medical costs. However, it is not just you who suffers due to your smoking habit. Other people around you and the environment also have to face the negative ...
Trash flowing into rivers and ultimately into oceans is one of the biggest causes of environmental pollution. Ocean Cleanup, a Netherlands-based environmental organization, has introduced a unique solution to the problem — a trash-eating boat called the “Interceptor” that automatically cleans up all waste flowing in the water. According to estimates, there could be more ...
China has apparently passed a health “tipping point,” according to a new study. While in the past, infectious diseases were the leading cause of death, they have now been surpassed by chronic conditions. This shift is believed to have occurred due to the rapid economic prosperity that reduced the risk of death from diseases since ...
In a 600-ft-long saltwater wave tank on the coast of New Jersey, a team of NJIT researchers is conducting the largest-ever simulation of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to determine more precisely where hundreds of thousands of gallons of oil dispersed to following the drilling rig’s explosion in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. Led ...
A United Nations report has warned that 5 billion people across the world could suffer from water shortages by 2050. The situation is being created due to multiple factors, like increased water demand, polluted supplies, and climate change. An impending water shortage crisis According to estimates, human beings use almost 4,600 cubic km of water ...
Salmon is tasty, delicious, and a nutritious food source. However, recent research exposes a little-known possibility about farmed salmon — it might be one of the most toxic foods in the world. The wonder food salmon Health experts consider salmon to be a wonder food for its nutritional value. Wild salmon is packed full of ...
A new IMAS and CSIRO collaborative study has found that balloons are the highest-risk plastic debris item for seabirds — they are 32 times more likely to kill than ingesting hard plastics. Researchers from IMAS, CSIRO, and ACE CRC looked at the cause of death of 1,733 seabirds from 51 species and found that one in three ...
Though some people worry about air pollution and cover their faces with masks when going out of their homes, very few people are aware that the air they breathe inside is much more polluted. This is why air-purifying plants are a necessity in homes and workspaces. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, indoor air ...
In China, people breathe air thick with the lung-damaging pollutant ozone two to six times more often than people in the United States, Europe, Japan, or South Korea, according to a new assessment. By one metric — total number of days with daily maximum average ozone values (8-hour average) greater than 70 ppb — China ...