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Six Environmental Research Studies Reveal Critical Health Risks from Plastic

Exposure to Bisphenol A (BPA), phthalates and flame retardants (PBDEs) are strongly associated with adverse health effects on humans and laboratory animals. A…

For Easy Sleep Along the Shore: Making Hazard Warnings More Effective

“One of the biggest lessons we learned from the tsunami was how lacking Sri Lanka was in terms of an emergency warning system. The most tragic aspect of the…

Coastlines could be protected by Invisibility Cloak

Mathematicians at Liverpool, working with physicists at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and Aix-Marseille Universite have found that…

Cranking up the volume – Sounds travel farther underwater as world's oceans become more acidic

Conservative projections by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) suggest that the chemistry of seawater could change by 0.3 pH units by 2050…

From Mothballs to Mobilization: Taking the Salt out of Sea Water

Geoscientist David Kreamer of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, noting that at least 37% of the world’s population lives within 100 kilometers of a…

The green Sahara, a desert in bloom

Although there is still little known about the Earth’s tropical and subtropical regions, these regions are thought to play an important role in both the…

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