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 Niña, 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