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WHO Slashes Safe Air Pollution Levels as New Evidence Highlights Health Risks

WHO Slashes Safe Air Pollution Levels as New Evidence Highlights Health Risks

Subject: Environmental Science

The World Health Organization (WHO) has updated its worldwide air quality guidelines for the first time since 2005, suggesting that fine particulate matter concentrations be reduced by at least half. The WHO claims that “there…

So much Polar Ice is Melting that it’s Warping Earth’s Crust

So much Polar Ice is Melting that it’s Warping Earth’s Crust

Subject: Environmental Science

Everyone is in for some bad news: the Earth is losing ice at a rate that can only be defined as “staggering” and “truly the worst situation we could envision” due to global warming. According…

Unprecedented Arctic Ozone Hole Last Year Sparked by Record Heat in North Pacific

Unprecedented Arctic Ozone Hole Last Year Sparked by Record Heat in North Pacific

Subject: Environmental Science

The unusually large hole in ozone levels across the Arctic last year was probably caused by a series of events caused by record high sea surface temperatures in the North Pacific Ocean, according to a…

Telltale Signs of an Approaching Mass Extinction Event are on the Rise, Scientists Say

Telltale Signs of an Approaching Mass Extinction Event are on the Rise, Scientists Say

Subject: Environmental Science

A troubling new study published in the journal Nature has uncovered a common feature of almost all mass extinction events throughout history, and warns that the odds of the next one increasing owing to climate…

Jeff Bezos Pledges $1 Billion Dollars to Conservation Efforts after Spacecation

Jeff Bezos Pledges $1 Billion Dollars to Conservation Efforts after Spacecation

Subject: Environmental Science

Jeff Bezos, the Amazon CEO-turned-not-quite-astronaut, has been inspired by his stay on the moon. The media magnate announced the launch of the Bezos Earth Fund a year and a half ago: a $10 billion foundation…

SOSV is Building a New Jersey HAX facility for Industrial, Healthcare, and Climate Startups

SOSV is Building a New Jersey HAX facility for Industrial, Healthcare, and Climate Startups

Subject: Environmental Science

SOSV announced this morning that construction on a $50 million HAX facility in Newark, New Jersey, will begin soon. The facility will focus on fostering industrial, healthcare, and climate companies. The New Jersey Economic Development…

Global Warming is slowed by an Intensified Water Cycle

Global Warming is slowed by an Intensified Water Cycle

Subject: Environmental Science

Climate change is likely hastening parts of the water cycle as rising global temperatures increase the rate of evaporation globally. On average, more evaporation leads to more precipitation. We are already seeing the effects of…

Metals Boost a Promising method for Burying Harmful CO2 under the Sea

Metals Boost a Promising method for Burying Harmful CO2 under the Sea

Subject: Environmental Science

There is a global race to reduce the number of harmful gases in our atmosphere in order to slow the rate of climate change, and one method is carbon capture and sequestration, which involves sucking…

World’s Largest Tree Wrapped in Fire-Proof Blanket as Wildfires Rage Closer

World’s Largest Tree Wrapped in Fire-Proof Blanket as Wildfires Rage Closer

Subject: Environmental Science

Wildfires are threatening to engulf the Giant Forest of Sequoia and King’s Canyon National Parks, threatening the world’s largest tree (by volume) (KNP). Rangers have wrapped the base of the tree in a heat-proof foil…

Ozone Layer Hole over the South Pole is Larger than Antarctica this Year

Ozone Layer Hole over the South Pole is Larger than Antarctica this Year

Subject: Environmental Science

According to the Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, the hole that appears in Earth’s ozone layer every year is particularly huge this year, occupying an area greater than Antarctica (CAMS). Researchers at CAMS discovered that the…

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