Soil pollution surpasses climate change as main threat to underground biodiversity, study finds
Soil organisms can live anywhere, from the surface to much deeper, from millipedes like Polydesmus to insects and microbes. Credit: ...
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Study reveals new catalytic pathway for effective water pollution control
Morphological and structural properties of nanoconfined CoNC-MSi and unconfined CoNC-Si catalysts. Credit: Nature Communications (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-49605-2 Researchers have made ...
Three-year study suggests air pollution increases storm risk
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Air pollution increases the severity of summer thunderstorms, according to a recent study by James Madison ...
Rising mercury pollution in soils may be linked to climate change, study finds
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In 2017, the Minamata Convention on Mercury entered into force. It aims to reduce mercury emissions ...
Fires in California: pollution has killed 52,000 people in 10 years
Pollution from California wildfires has killed more than 52,000 people in a decade, a study reported Friday, as the western ...
Air pollution harms mental health, US study finds
Breathing polluted air could impair mental health, and by extension increase the risk of death from cardiovascular disease. This is ...
Air pollution linked to increase in hospital admissions for serious heart and lung conditions
Credit: CC0 Public domain Short- and long-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution is linked to an increased ...
Highways crossing historically redlined areas likely cause disparities in air pollution today
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public domain As part of the New Deal, several government programs were created to increase homeownership through mortgages ...
Global deforestation leads to more mercury pollution, study finds
Graphical summary. Credit: Environmental science and technology (2024). DOI: 10.1021/acs.est.3c07851 About 10% of annual human-caused mercury emissions into the atmosphere ...
Measuring household air pollution exposure in sub-Saharan Africa
Geometric mean PM2.5 kitchen concentrations (A) and exposures of cooks (B) and children (C) during cooking and non-cooking periods, stratified ...
