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Environmental Protection: is the practice of protecting the natural environment by individuals, organizations and governments. Its objectives are to conserve natural resources and the existing natural environment and, where possible, to repair damage and reverse trends.
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OCT 28, 2025Cannabis Sciences
Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and researchers from the Integral Ecology Research Center (IERC) worke ...Written By: Kerry CharronJUL 07, 2025Microbiology
Scientists have discovered how a bacteria makes a kind of detergent, which could help eliminate some forms of pollution. ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 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 LeitchFEB 06, 2025Chemistry & Physics
What types of new plastics can be developed with enhanced recycling capabilities? This is what a recent study published ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJAN 26, 2025Earth & The Environment
Climate change is affecting a seemingly endless number of things, in increasingly drastic ways.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 LeitchNOV 29, 2024Earth & The Environment
Scientists have already said that 2024 will be the hottest recorded year, and 2023 had already set a record for being 2. ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 12, 2024Earth & The Environment
The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 scattered roughly 540 million tons of ash over an area of more than 22,000 squa ...Written By: Carmen LeitchNOV 05, 2024Earth & The Environment
The golden mussel is an invasive species that has used the ballast water of ships to spread to many places, and wreak ha ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 26, 2024Earth & The Environment
A new study reported in BMJ Global Health is highlighting the significant cost of bottled water. The study has estimated ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 24, 2024Earth & The Environment
Since the earliest civilizations, humans have used rivers to sustain us; they have provided an essential source of food ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 17, 2024Earth & The Environment
The fascinating and remote Rapa Nui or Easter Island, is ~2,000 km from the nearest Polynesian island and 3,700 km west ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 11, 2024Earth & The Environment
Researchers went 'bioprospecting' in marine microbes, looking for those that can perform helpful functions like eating p ...Written By: Carmen LeitchAUG 19, 2024Earth & The Environment
Scientists who were assessing the structure of different types of wood at the microscopic level have discovered a totall ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJUN 12, 2024Microbiology
In the late 1970s, a new branch was added to the tree of life, and archaea joined bacteria and eukarya, as domain classi ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 28, 2024Clinical & Molecular DX
Lyme disease occurs when someone is bitten by a deer tick that is carrying pathogenic bacteria called Borrelia burgdorfe ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 23, 2024Earth & The Environment
What impact can severe air pollution have on the health of senior citizens? This is what a recent study published in BMJ ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScFEB 11, 2024Earth & The Environment
Earth once hosted many massive creatures called megafauna, and humans drove the extinction of many. That seems to have c ...Written By: Carmen LeitchFEB 05, 2024Drug Discovery & Development
Immune link between Rheumatoid arthritis and cardiovascular disease - a recent study reveals promising new treatment for ...Written By: Amielle MorenoFEB 02, 2024Earth & The Environment
How can melting permafrost influence climate change? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the Nat ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScFEB 01, 2024Earth & The Environment
Radon is a natural gas that is odorless, invisible, and radioactive. It's generated by the breakdown of metals like uran ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 23, 2024Earth & The Environment
New research has determined that a type of fishing known as bottom trawling is a major, and unaccounted for source of ca ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 23, 2024Microbiology
We share the world with vast numbers of microbes, including archaea, bacteria, and viruses. These microbes have numerous ...Written By: Carmen LeitchJAN 09, 2024Earth & The Environment
As climate change continues to ravage the planet, coastal cities are at the highest risk due to coastal flooding attribu ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MSc
OCT 28, 2025
Cannabis Sciences
Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and researchers from the Integral Ecology Research Center (IERC) worke
...
Written By:
Kerry Charron
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
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
FEB 06, 2025
Chemistry & Physics
What types of new plastics can be developed with enhanced recycling capabilities? This is what a recent study published
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
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 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
NOV 29, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Scientists have already said that 2024 will be the hottest recorded year, and 2023 had already set a record for being 2.
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 12, 2024
Earth & The Environment
The eruption of Mount St. Helens in 1980 scattered roughly 540 million tons of ash over an area of more than 22,000 squa
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 05, 2024
Earth & The Environment
The golden mussel is an invasive species that has used the ballast water of ships to spread to many places, and wreak ha
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 26, 2024
Earth & The Environment
A new study reported in BMJ Global Health is highlighting the significant cost of bottled water. The study has estimated
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 24, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Since the earliest civilizations, humans have used rivers to sustain us; they have provided an essential source of food
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 17, 2024
Earth & The Environment
The fascinating and remote Rapa Nui or Easter Island, is ~2,000 km from the nearest Polynesian island and 3,700 km west
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 11, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Researchers went 'bioprospecting' in marine microbes, looking for those that can perform helpful functions like eating p
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
AUG 19, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Scientists who were assessing the structure of different types of wood at the microscopic level have discovered a totall
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JUN 12, 2024
Microbiology
In the late 1970s, a new branch was added to the tree of life, and archaea joined bacteria and eukarya, as domain classi
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 28, 2024
Clinical & Molecular DX
Lyme disease occurs when someone is bitten by a deer tick that is carrying pathogenic bacteria called Borrelia burgdorfe
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 23, 2024
Earth & The Environment
What impact can severe air pollution have on the health of senior citizens? This is what a recent study published in BMJ
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 11, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Earth once hosted many massive creatures called megafauna, and humans drove the extinction of many. That seems to have c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
FEB 05, 2024
Drug Discovery & Development
Immune link between Rheumatoid arthritis and cardiovascular disease - a recent study reveals promising new treatment for
...
Written By:
Amielle Moreno
FEB 02, 2024
Earth & The Environment
How can melting permafrost influence climate change? This is what a recent study published in the Proceedings of the Nat
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 01, 2024
Earth & The Environment
Radon is a natural gas that is odorless, invisible, and radioactive. It's generated by the breakdown of metals like uran
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 23, 2024
Earth & The Environment
New research has determined that a type of fishing known as bottom trawling is a major, and unaccounted for source of ca
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 23, 2024
Microbiology
We share the world with vast numbers of microbes, including archaea, bacteria, and viruses. These microbes have numerous
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
JAN 09, 2024
Earth & The Environment
As climate change continues to ravage the planet, coastal cities are at the highest risk due to coastal flooding attribu
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc