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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.

Plan E: A climate-centred security strategy?

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

The underpinning strategic logic behind PLAN E is for nations to undertake a pivot in their threat posture, at the level of grand strategy. Coherent grand strategy means that all arms of Gove

The Earth Strikes Back

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

Fifty-five million years ago, the Earth took a fever. Somehow, 12,000 billion tonnes of carbon escaped into the atmosphere – and global temperatures soared by 5-8 degrees Celsius over the nex

Empathy and the environment

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

An evolution to a cleaner, greener world requires not only the activism of youth, but also the wisdom of age and the leadership of a Lincoln or Roosevelt to address the concerns of those adve

How to really reduce the co2 emissions of the atmosphere?

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

We still have an opportunity to reduce CO2 emissions from the atmosphere. This is not as difficult as it sounds. Here are some reflections, questions and answers that will help us solve the p

Hydrogen for a stronger economy and cleaner environment

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

Frank Wolak, President and CEO of the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association – argues that when it comes to a stronger economy and a cleaner environment – hydrogen brings it all together

Science Based Green Recovery at the COP26

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

Selva Ozelli’s digital solo art show "Art in the Time of Corona 7 - Recovery Roses" is part of her series of art shows exploring the links between pollution and the pandemic.

The leading young environmental activists and social media

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

Social networks have become a fundamental tool for the young people of the XXI century and they are using it in an exemplary way to act in the face of one of the greatest threats that humanit

About COP26: Who wants to change key climate reports by lobbying?

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

How countries are trying to change a crucial scientific report on how to tackle climate change.