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Socio-economic, environmental impacts of COVID-19 quantified

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

How is COVID-19 impacting people and the planet and what are the implications for a post-pandemic world? A new study quantifies the socio-economic losses and environmental gains.

Why Is the South Pole Warming So Quickly? It’s Complicated

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

Much of the warming is linked to natural climate cycles happening thousands of miles away in the tropics.

COVID-19 is laying waste to many US recycling programs

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

The trends we see in the making and consuming of single-use goods, particularly plastic, could have lasting negative effects on the circular economy.

Why 'I can't breathe' is resonating with environmental justice activists

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

Elevating racial justice issues within the environmental movement has been a struggle even though black communities are the most at risk from climate change.

For indigenous protesters, defending the environment can be fatal

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

These are some of the most prominent examples of violence faced by environmental activists in recent years

Climate change increases migration at the expense of the poor

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

When a climate event was announced, the number of migrants also increased in equilibrium beyond pure poverty migration.

Climate change: Scientists fear car surge will see CO2 rebound

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

Daily global emissions of CO2 fell by 17% at the peak of the shutdown because of measures taken by governments in response to Covid-19, say scientists.

Project seeks 4D view of Earth's mantle

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

Some of the most sophisticated models of the Earth's interior ever constructed will be produced in a new project led from Cardiff University.

The New Alzheimer’s–Air Pollution Link

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

Toxic airborne particles can travel from lungs and nose to the brain, and exposure is linked to memory loss.

Vitamin D levels appear to play role in COVID-19 mortality rates

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

Patients with severe deficiency are twice as likely to experience major complications.

One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

Human cost of climate crisis will hit harder and sooner than previously believed, research reveals

COVID-19 is a dress rehearsal for entrepreneurial approaches to climate change

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

successful environmental entrepreneurs tend to see themselves as both environmentalists and business-people.

Scientists find highest ever level of microplastics on seafloor

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

An international research project has revealed the highest levels of microplastic ever recorded on the seafloor, with up to 1.9 million pieces in a thin layer covering just 1 square metre.

New Trump Nuclear Plan Favors Uranium Mining Bordering the Grand Canyon

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

The administration, seeking to restore America’s “competitive nuclear advantage,” also wants to create a $150 million uranium reserve in the coming decade.

Chernobyl – the world’s worst nuclear disaster revisited

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

The Chernobyl disaster is the worst recorded nuclear power plant disaster.

Covid-19 – a blessing for pangolins?

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

Pangolins are the world’s most trafficked mammals, but there is evidence that they were the source of the new coronavirus – which could end the trade.

New geochemical tool reveals origin of Earth's nitrogen.

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

Researchers have used a new geochemical tool to shed light on the origin of nitrogen and other volatile elements on Earth, which may also prove useful as a way to monitor the activity of volc

Nature’s Blueprint

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

An economy is an ecosystem, with we humans as its species.

Polar bears are getting thinner and having fewer cubs. Melting sea ice is to blame

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

The impact of the climate crisis is becoming more and more obvious to humans and their animal neighbors. But among all species, polar bears might be some of the hardest hit.

Flying into Danger

Tiredearth

30 Nov 2024

You may have heard a lot of people talking and writing about solutions to the world environmental, But do you ever wonder why still the relentless environmental slide goes on?