Health

Could the Drying Up of Europe’s Great Rivers Be the New Normal?

From the Danube to the Loire, Europe’s prime rivers — lifelines for the continent’s economy — are running low after a brut...

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More than 90% of identifiable trash in North Pacific Garbage Patch comes from just six countries

A team of researchers with the Ocean Cleanup project and Wageningen University, both in the Netherlands, has found via sampling an...

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Deadly Floods Devastate an Already Fragile Pakistan

Across Pakistan, torrents of floodwater have ripped away mountainsides, swept buildings off their foundations and roared through t...

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Forest fires are getting worse, 20 years of data confirm

Across Russia, Europe, Indonesia, the Amazon Basin, North America, Australia, and beyond, we have watched fires blaze across lands...

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How Seoul failed its most vulnerable, flooded in their basement homes

As rainwater gushed into Yoon Jin-hyeok’s semi-underground apartment on Monday,the night of South Korea’s historic downpour, t...

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58% of human infectious diseases can be worsened by climate change – we scoured 77,000 studies to map the pathways

Climate change can exacerbate a full 58% of the infectious diseases that humans come in contact with worldwide, from common wate...

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It’s so hot in Europe that roads are literally buckling

Europe is baking under heat so extreme that it’s causing train tracks to bend and roads to buckle. The heat wave, which brought...

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Garbage island no more: how one Japanese community triumphed over a toxic waste dump

Toru Ishii remembers when the shredded car tyres, batteries, and runoff the colour and consistency of treacle blighted the landsca...

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Almost Half the World’s Rivers Poisoned With OTC, Prescription Drugs: Study

Almost half of the world's rivers are poisoned with over-the-counter and prescription drugs, according to new research. They range...

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The race to reclaim the dark

hundreds – and, as his eyes adjust, thousands – of stars studding the night sky. th, a region renowned for its rugged moors, g...

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When the world actually solved an environmental crisis

1985, atmospheric scientists in Antarctica noticed something troubling. For decades, they’d been measuring the thickness of the ...

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As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, Utah Faces An ‘Environmental Nuclear Bomb’

Climate change and rapid population growth are shrinking the lake, creating a bowl of toxic dust that could poison the air around ...

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