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Environmental Health
Environmental health studies the relationships between the environment and human health and wellbeing. These include how factors such as climate change, air pollution, sanitation, radiation, and agricultural practices can directly impact health.
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OCT 23, 2025Technology
How can unused home construction materials be recycled for additional use? This is what a recent study published in Jour ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 07, 2025Microbiology
Scientists have discovered how a bacteria makes a kind of detergent, which could help eliminate some forms of pollution. ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 29, 2025Microbiology
The gut microbiome has been associated with many heath conditions, and scientists are exploring the links between the gu ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 22, 2025Earth & The Environment
The ocean contains a complex food web–the network of interactions among predators and prey that maintain healthy e ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 17, 2025Earth & The Environment
What are the health implications between particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution and PM1 pollution, which are the diameter ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScMAY 27, 2025Earth & The Environment
The health of global oceans is under constant threat from harms like microplastics, oil spills, industrial pollution and ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 23, 2025Earth & The Environment
Plants are able to respond to their environment and changes in conditions. In the phototropism phenomenon, for example, ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 29, 2025Earth & The Environment
Bird Migration Shifts Climate change has been ongoing for decades, and as average temperatures around the world and in t ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 18, 2025Earth & The Environment
It's estimated that 3.6 billion people are now living in places that are "highly susceptible to climate change" .. ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 14, 2025Earth & The Environment
Inland waters, which include streams, rivers, lakes, and reservoirs, are crucial to the health of our planet and differe ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAPR 02, 2025Earth & The Environment
Scientists have grown algae that was collected from the bottom of the Baltic Sea, and which probably sank about 7,000 ye ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 28, 2025Earth & The Environment
A recent study reported in Nature Communications highlighted the loss of glaciers in the Arctic, which has been shown to ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 24, 2025Neuroscience
Areas with higher numbers of well-arranged trees have lower mortality rates than areas with more sparse coverage.Written By: Annie LennonMAR 16, 2025Earth & The Environment
This image by Jean-Philippe Maréchal shows a sargassum bloom, which has affected parts of the Caribbean since 2011Written By: Carmen LeitchMAR 14, 2025Microbiology
Plastic is a cheap and durable material that has been adapted and applied in innumerable ways. Vast amounts of plastic h ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 21, 2025Microbiology
Two new studies have shown how climate change can increase disease. Both of these reports were focused on the increase i ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 29, 2025Earth & The Environment
When PFAS were developed, companies found a huge number of ways to apply them to different products. But while they have ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 26, 2025Earth & The Environment
Climate change is affecting a seemingly endless number of things, in increasingly drastic ways.Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 22, 2025Earth & The Environment
Research has shown that flooding, caused by events like atmospheric rivers and torrential thunderstorms, is increasing i ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 19, 2025Earth & The Environment
Hydroclimate whiplash is a term to refer to rapid weather shifts between very wet and intensely dry, and this phenomenon ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 14, 2025Earth & The Environment
Some fungi have been very helpful to humans, like the ascomycetous fungi that generate the antibiotic penicillin. Scient ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 02, 2025Cardiology
Increased air pollution appears to lead to decreased athletic performance.Written By: Savannah LoganDEC 10, 2024Earth & The Environment
According to NASA, the hottest years on record are the ten most recent years, and 2023 was the warmest on record since p ...Written By: Carmen LeitchDEC 08, 2024Earth & The Environment
High temperatures are known to be a killer, and historically, it is not unusual for extreme heat to cause tens of thousa ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
OCT 23, 2025
Technology
How can unused home construction materials be recycled for additional use? This is what a recent study published in Jour
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 07, 2025
Microbiology
Scientists have discovered how a bacteria makes a kind of detergent, which could help eliminate some forms of pollution.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 29, 2025
Microbiology
The gut microbiome has been associated with many heath conditions, and scientists are exploring the links between the gu
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 22, 2025
Earth & The Environment
The ocean contains a complex food web–the network of interactions among predators and prey that maintain healthy e
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 17, 2025
Earth & The Environment
What are the health implications between particulate matter (PM2.5) pollution and PM1 pollution, which are the diameter
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
MAY 27, 2025
Earth & The Environment
The health of global oceans is under constant threat from harms like microplastics, oil spills, industrial pollution and
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 23, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Plants are able to respond to their environment and changes in conditions. In the phototropism phenomenon, for example,
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 29, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Bird Migration Shifts Climate change has been ongoing for decades, and as average temperatures around the world and in t
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 18, 2025
Earth & The Environment
It's estimated that 3.6 billion people are now living in places that are "highly susceptible to climate change" ..
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 14, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Inland waters, which include streams, rivers, lakes, and reservoirs, are crucial to the health of our planet and differe
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
APR 02, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Scientists have grown algae that was collected from the bottom of the Baltic Sea, and which probably sank about 7,000 ye
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 28, 2025
Earth & The Environment
A recent study reported in Nature Communications highlighted the loss of glaciers in the Arctic, which has been shown to
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 24, 2025
Neuroscience
Areas with higher numbers of well-arranged trees have lower mortality rates than areas with more sparse coverage.
Written By:
Annie Lennon
MAR 16, 2025
Earth & The Environment
This image by Jean-Philippe Maréchal shows a sargassum bloom, which has affected parts of the Caribbean since 2011
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 14, 2025
Microbiology
Plastic is a cheap and durable material that has been adapted and applied in innumerable ways. Vast amounts of plastic h
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 21, 2025
Microbiology
Two new studies have shown how climate change can increase disease. Both of these reports were focused on the increase i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 29, 2025
Earth & The Environment
When PFAS were developed, companies found a huge number of ways to apply them to different products. But while they have
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 26, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Climate change is affecting a seemingly endless number of things, in increasingly drastic ways.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 22, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Research has shown that flooding, caused by events like atmospheric rivers and torrential thunderstorms, is increasing i
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 19, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Hydroclimate whiplash is a term to refer to rapid weather shifts between very wet and intensely dry, and this phenomenon
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 14, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Some fungi have been very helpful to humans, like the ascomycetous fungi that generate the antibiotic penicillin. Scient
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 02, 2025
Cardiology
Increased air pollution appears to lead to decreased athletic performance.
Written By:
Savannah Logan
DEC 10, 2024
Earth & The Environment
According to NASA, the hottest years on record are the ten most recent years, and 2023 was the warmest on record since p
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
DEC 08, 2024
Earth & The Environment
High temperatures are known to be a killer, and historically, it is not unusual for extreme heat to cause tens of thousa
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch