A report published in the International Journal of Climatology predicts Brisbane, Australia, will become a “difficult place to live” in the next three decades due to soaring temperatures. The extreme heat is also expected to lead to more deaths. Hot Brisbane According to the report, the number of hot days and nights will double in ...
A few years back, the Paris Climate Agreement was signed by world governments. The agreement aims to cut back greenhouse gas emissions over the next several decades with the goal being to keep the world’s temperature from rising above 1.5°C. In October 2018, the United Nations issued a report that warned about the consequences of ...
An ice sheet in Greenland is the second largest in the world. With an area of 660,000 square miles, the sheet covers about 80 percent of the island and is over 1.2 miles thick. Though we have known for some time that the ice sheet in Greenland has been melting, new research suggests that the ...
Coal ash solids found in sediments collected from Sutton Lake in 2015 and 2018 suggest the eastern North Carolina lake has been contaminated by multiple coal ash spills, most of them apparently unmonitored and unreported until now. Avner Vengosh, professor of geochemistry and water quality at Duke University’s Nicholas School of the Environment, who led the ...
Concentrations of antibiotics found in some of the world’s rivers exceed “safe” levels by up to 300 times, the first-ever global study has discovered. Researchers looked for 14 commonly used antibiotics in rivers in 72 countries across six continents and found antibiotics at 65 percent of the sites monitored. Metronidazole, which is used to treat bacterial ...
When a Chinese-funded bottled water project was proposed near Lake Baikal, local Siberians were angry. They were worried that such a plant would end up ruining the pristine natural environment. Thankfully, authorities put a halt to construction of the water bottling plant. But this has not stopped Russians from carrying out anti-China demonstrations. Water plant ...
High IQs aren’t going to be enough to stop an ecological disaster. It’s going to take social intelligence, too. That’s the conclusion of a new study co-authored by a University of Central Florida researcher and published in the journal Nature Communications. The findings could help identify why some groups better manage shared resources, such as water ...
The products of wastewater treatment have been found to contain trace amounts of antibiotic-resistant DNA. These products are often reintroduced to the environment and water supply, potentially resulting in the spread of antibiotic resistance. As such, researchers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering have been studying the development of these potentially ...
With the U.S. experiencing one of its worst bouts of freezing cold temperatures, global warming has once again become a hot topic across all media. In some places, people have been advised to stop venturing outside their homes. Freezing cold caused by global warming The big freeze is said to be the result of a ...
Expeience the heart-warming story about the friendship between a young boy and a pelican in Australia’s Coorong, which is retold and based on Colin Thiele’s book, Storm Boy. Mike Kindley is Storm Boy grown up, and now he’s a successful retired businessman. He sees visions of his Indigenous friend he knew from childhood and pelicans. ...
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