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Limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius would reduce risks to humans by up to 85%

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

New research led by the University of East Anglia (UEA) quantifies the benefits of limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius and identifies the hotspot regions for climate change risk in

Pollution linked to 10 per cent of cancer cases in Europe, report finds

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

More than one-quarter of a million lives are lost to environment-related cancer every year

Plastic pollution in ocean may harbor novel antibiotics

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

Plastic pollution in the ocean may serve as a source for novel antibiotics, according to a new student-led study conducted in collaboration with the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The r

World No Tobacco Day 2022

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

Tobacco: Threat to our environment

Stockholm+50

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

A healthy planet for the prosperity of all – our responsibility, our opportunity

Bioethics as a tool for social and environmental challenges

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

We are witnessing the appearance of a new vision, a product of the damage that human beings are capable of causing in our common home.

The climate crisis is unfair

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

We, as society, must fight back climate change and it has to be a priority.

Forests are key in tackling climate crisis

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

'Without the forest cover we have now, the planet would be hotter and the weather more extreme'

Junk Food and the Brain: How Modern Diets Lacking in Micronutrients May Contribute to Irritability and Anger

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

Hidden brain hunger is one modifiable factor contributing to emotional outbursts, aggression and even the loss of civility in public discourse.

World Wildlife Day 2022

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

The Iberian lynx was a critical predator in Mediterranean ecosystems. 20 years ago, there were only 94 Iberian lynx left. A recovery programme allowed numbers of Iberian lynx to climb to over

To block pandemics, keep ecosystems healthy

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

According to a new scientific study, current official plans to prevent future pandemics like Covid-19 are unlikely to be successful.

'Financing our own extinction': $1.8tr in subsidies funding nature destruction every year, global study finds

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

Major report calls for rapid action to be taken by government and business to deliver subsidy reform

Corals doomed even if global climate goals met: study

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

Coral reefs that anchor a quarter of marine wildlife and the livelihoods of more than half-a-billion people will most likely be wiped out even if global warming is capped within Paris climate

How Climate Change Will Affect Plants

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

We human beings need plants for our survival. Everything we eat consists of plants or animals that depend on plants somewhere along the food chain.

Microplastics and Toxic Chemicals Increasingly Prevalent in World’s Oceans

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

We do not fully understand the risks to human health of ingesting plastic...

More trees means healthier bees, new study on air pollution reveals

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

The findings add to the growing scientific evidence about the importance of afforestation in urban areas and point to the need to create ecological corridors to connect separate landscapes.

Postpone the SDGs?

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

It is clear that the global goals that we as a society have set for ourselves are not being achieved in time. Despite the COVID-19 pandemic; we have not stopped our mission, however the stati

Cryptocurrency mining has a huge carbon footprint. Here’s what experts think we should do about it.

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

As currencies like bitcoin and dogecoin make digital currency as valid a form of payment as the U.S. dollar and euro, experts seek new environmentally-friendly solutions to the massive amount

It is time for the local to determine the Global

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

Researcher Johan Rockström established in 2009 the planetary boundaries for humanity to continue to develop and prosper in following generations.

Time to end the mass killing

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

Many times larger than climate change and more deadly than Covid or war, humanity’s chemical emissions are the crisis nobody wants to acknowledge.