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Light pollution is disrupting the seasonal rhythms of plants and trees, lengthening pollen season in US cities

Light pollution is disrupting the seasonal rhythms of plants and trees, lengthening pollen season in US cities

Liang Lan July 12, 2022

This study shows how nighttime lights are lengthening the growing season in cities, which can affect everything from allergies to....

Big tobacco is having a ‘devastating’ impact on the environment, WHO report reveals

Big tobacco is having a ‘devastating’ impact on the environment, WHO report reveals

George Scott May 31, 2022

As well as killing eight million people every year, the tobacco industry has a far bigger impact on the planet....

Plastic pollution: European farmland could be largest global reservoir of microplastics

Plastic pollution: European farmland could be largest global reservoir of microplastics

Liang Lan May 24, 2022

A study estimated that between 31,000 and 42,000 tonnes of microplastics (or 86 trillion – 710 trillion microplastic particles) are....

COVID-19 is overcrowding cemeteries and causing heavy metal pollution

COVID-19 is overcrowding cemeteries and causing heavy metal pollution

Liang Lan February 14, 2022

At this rate, dead people are slowly poisoning those who are alive.

What to Expect From The World's Sixth Mass Extinction

What to Expect From The World's Sixth Mass Extinction

Liang Lan January 12, 2022

Humans alive today are witnessing the beginning of the first mass extinction in 65 million years. What does biodiversity loss....

Too harmful: The march of salt and plastics on world soils

Too harmful: The march of salt and plastics on world soils

Liang Lan January 09, 2022

Unsustainable human activities are exacerbating soil salinity.

Environment Bill soils amendment rejected

Environment Bill soils amendment rejected

George Scott October 26, 2021

Soil Association says MPs have missed a crucial opportunity to take role of soils in climate and nature crises seriously

Save Our Food Production by Conserving the Soil

Save Our Food Production by Conserving the Soil

Hannah Steiner December 04, 2019

Every 5 seconds, the equivalent of one soccer field of soil is eroded. This alarming fact reaffirms the need to....