If you live in or near a crowded city and have tried to see the stars or a meteor shower in the night sky, you probably had little luck. The reason is light pollution. Light pollution is when urban ...
In 2012, Deborah Cory-Slechta at the University of Rochester, New York, received a “bucket of brains”. A colleague had been studying how air pollution around the university harms the hearts and lungs ...
Untangling the relationship between air pollution and the brain is complex. In the modern industrial world, we are all exposed to literally thousands of contaminants. And not every person exposed to a ...
Editor’s Note: Call to Earth is a CNN editorial series committed to reporting on the environmental challenges facing our planet, together with the solutions. Rolex’s Perpetual Planet Initiative has ...
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Industrial water pollution: Sources, pathways and preventive strategies every facility should know
MACH Engineering reports that industrial water pollution remains a significant issue in the U.S., with many businesses ...
On a cool spring morning in a northern forest, the ground feels soft underfoot. Mist hangs between the trunks, and the air smells of wet leaves and old humus; the slow alchemy that keeps a forest ...
Images of turtles tangled in nets or fish choked by bags are the most obvious signs that plastic pollution is harming our oceans. But plastic isn’t just dangerous because of its physical bulk, it’s ...
Calderón-Garcidueñas, today head of the Environmental Neuroprevention Laboratory at the University of Montana, points out that the damaged brains she documented through neuroimaging in young dogs and ...
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