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Air pollution in Europe and the EU lack of action
Posted: February 3, 2016Air pollution from vehicles is killing tens of thousands of people every year in the UK alone, write Jean Lambert, Molly Scott Cato & Keith Taylor, an outrage set into…
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How Modular Construction is Keeping Waste Out of U.S. Landfills
Posted: February 2, 2016When we think about the overflow of our nation’s landfills, we probably picture limiting our food waste; recycling plastics, glass and paper; and keeping out potentially harmful hazardous waste. What…
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Olfactory receptors found in Human blood
Posted: February 1, 2016Human blood cells have olfactory receptors that respond to Sandalore. This could provide a starting point for new leukaemia therapies, as researchers from Bochum report in a current study.Olfactory receptors…
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Phases of the moon affect amount of rainfall
Posted: February 1, 2016When the moon is high in the sky, it creates bulges in the planet’s atmosphere that creates imperceptible changes in the amount of rain that falls below. New University of Washington…
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Iowa – first in primaries, first in wind power
Posted: January 31, 2016As presidential contenders gather in Iowa for the beginning of the party selection season, they may have noticed a lot of wind turbines, writes Zachary Davies Boren. And if they…
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Paris climate agreement seen as turning point by UN
Posted: January 30, 2016Less than two months after 196 parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) adopted the Paris Agreement, the global community is already seeing signs of it being…
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UCLA solves the mystery of how Earth got its moon
Posted: January 29, 2016The moon was formed by a violent, head-on collision between the early Earth and a “planetary embryo” called Theia approximately 100 million years after the Earth formed, UCLA geochemists and…
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What do we know about the Zika virus?
Posted: January 29, 2016The mosquito-borne Zika virus has been linked to a surge in cases of birth defects in Brazil, and is spreading in other countries in the southern hemisphere. Flaminia Catteruccia, associate professor of immunology…
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Meat consumption and climate change linked by EU study
Posted: January 28, 2016The overconsumption of meat will inevitably push global temperatures to dangerous levels, a recent study has warned, urging reluctant governments to take action.The world's rapidly expanding population is posing a…
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Study finds toxic pollutants in fish across the world's oceans
Posted: January 28, 2016A new global analysis of seafood found that fish populations throughout the world's oceans are contaminated with industrial and agricultural pollutants, collectively known as persistent organic pollutants (POPs). The study…
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