How microplastic threatens the survival of bees 01-02-2023 The quantities of microplastics found in bees hives in the countryside are slightly lower than those of urban hives
How pollution affects fertility 01-02-2023 Female Fertility and Environmental Pollution, published by the International journal of environmental research and public health, explains the relationship between fertility and pollution
Mental Health and sports: what you need to know 31-01-2023 The Positive Effects of Running on Mental Health published on the Psychiatria Danubina made a review on the issue.
The African elephant is increasingly at risk of extinction 31-01-2023 Since 2004, it has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List
Cordyceps: curiosities about the fungus from the HBO series The Last of Us 30-01-2023 Airing weekly on HBO, the post-apocalyptic series has the true villain of the story as the Cordyceps fungus, which infects people until they turn into zombies
Planet Earth plagued by extreme weather events in 2022 30-01-2023 Although 2022 has not been the warmest year ever due to the presence of La NiƱa, it will not reverse the trend of the last 8 years of having been the warmest ever recorded, nor the record levels of greenhouse gases present in the atmosphere
By 2023, Asia-Pacific urban food security could be at risk 29-01-2023 By that date, approximately 55% of the Asia-Pacific region will reside in urban areas, which could have a impact on food security and urban nutrition
Colony of 500 emperor penguins discovered thanks to satellites 29-01-2023 Images from the European Commission's Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite mission were used and compared with high-resolution images from the American Maxar WorldView-3 satellite
The melting of the Antarctic ice sheet can still be stopped 28-01-2023 According to a recent study published in Nature Communications, it would still be possible to stop the melting of the Antarctic ice sheet
Antarctica, the new iceberg that has broken off is the size of London 28-01-2023 Iceberg broke off the Brunt Ice Shelf on January 22. The huge chunk of ice broke free after the fracture known as Chasm-1 extended fully northward: the fracture had been under control since early 2012
Doomsday clock at just 90 seconds to midnight 27-01-2023 With the war in Ukraine and fears of a nuclear tragedy heightened, the hands of the Doomsday Clock were moved forward this year from 100 seconds in 2022, signaling the approaching day of the apocalypse
NASA to develop a nuclear-powered rocket: Mars is closer 27-01-2023 NASA will develop a nuclear-powered rocket, in collaboration with DARPA, with the rocket to be called DRACO
Role of air pollution in chronic kidney disease 26-01-2023 A study makes an interesting retrospective on the connections between the current state of the air and a health problem which is insidious and recurring
Population ageing: the paradox between Japan, China and India 26-01-2023 China may no longer be the most populated nation in the world, but perhaps it has been overtake by India.
The earth's core is slowing down its rotation 25-01-2023 It was announced in Nature Geoscience as a result of the study of two Chinese scientists, Yi Yang and Xiaodong Song, of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Geophysics of Peking University
Climate crisis could blur our telescopes' view of the universe 25-01-2023 "Climate change is already affecting astronomy and my work," said planetary scientist from the University of Alicante in Spain Santana-Ros
Air pollution and prostate cancer in a population-based Canadian 24-01-2023 Air pollution is a major cause of many health problems, even serious ones, such as some cases of cancer. One of them is prostate cancer
Air pollution plays a key role in lung cancer 24-01-2023 Lung cancer is one of the most frequent causes of death on the planet, and among the various causes, air pollution plays an important role
Air pollution and liver cancer 23-01-2023 Air pollution and liver cancer: A systematic review, a study published in the Journal of environmental sciences (China), takes a retrospective look at this topic
Urban river water pollution and urbanization in East Africa 23-01-2023 A study evaluates the health of rivers in this part of the continent, trying to see the effects on the population
Discovered and killed one of the largest toads in the world 22-01-2023 The discovery was made in Australia. In a rainforest in the north of the country, in the state of Queensland. Six times larger than standard size, the female amphibian was named Toadzilla
The oceans have never been so warmer: "Like 5 Hiroshima bombs per second" 22-01-2023 The analysis explains that the temperature of the seas around the world, between the surface and two thousand meters deep, has never been so high
Brazil: 2022 record year of deforestation in the Amazon 21-01-2023 In the last year, the forest has lost more than 10.5 million square kilometres
Greenland near collapse: the last decade the warmest in 1,000 years 21-01-2023 According to the data acquired from the study of ice cores, a drama has been going on since 1995: this is what emerges from a study by the German Alfred Wegener Institute for Marine and Polar Research
How air pollution would cause inflammation and thrombosis 20-01-2023 A study makes a retrospective on the vascular effects caused by air pollution