progscrape: environment

A global study found human-caused climate change is already exposing up to 560 million children aged 0–9 to at least one additional month of heat stress per year, with children experiencing greater additional exposure than any other age group.

2 months ago science.org environment

Chemicals banned in the 1970s still widely detected across Europe

2 months ago eurekalert.org environment europe

Replacing conventional egg production with 100% organic free-range systems could increase greenhouse gas emissions by 60%, nearly double land use, require more hens, and increase mortality while producing the same number of eggs…

2 months ago royalsocietypublishing.org environment

Microplastics have been discovered in one of the most remote, inhospitable, and unexplored parts of our planet

2 months ago sciencealert.com environment

Research examined the locations of 4,283 data centers across the contiguous U.S and found that 97.5% of them sit inside metropolitan or micropolitan statistical areas

2 months ago engineering.nyu.edu environment

Takeaway cups release microplastics into your coffee: 12 times more plastic particles leached from single-use cups lined with biodegradable polylactic acid (PLA)…

2 months ago news.uq.edu.au environment release

Researchers have pinpointed the molecular players responsible for plants “feeling full” once they’ve taken up enough nitrogen.

2 months ago futurity.org environment

Large-scale U.S study finds no link between crime and unauthorized immigration

2 months ago socialecology.uci.edu environment

Study of 3414 children aged 6-9 years, has found that air quality improvements following the introduction of London’s Ultra Low Emission Zone (ULEZ) are strongly associated with improved lung growth

2 months ago qmul.ac.uk environment

‘Snow-eater’ heat waves are melting western U.S snowpack twice as fast

2 months ago cpr.org environment