Latest study of more than 50,000 people, about the effects of traffic noise pollution, it has found a ‘clear relationship’ between noise and heart attacks, reports journal PLoS ONE.
Environment
Cougars Recover To Repopulate Midwest After Predators Were Hunted To Near Extinction
For decades mountain lions or cougars were seen as a threat to livestock and humans and many States paid a bounty to hunters for killing them.
Ecosystem Collapse Could Happen This Century, Scientists Warned
The three tangibles seen that could cause collapse of the ecosystem as early as this century include climate change, population growth and environmental destruction, scientists warned in the journal Nature.
Sponge Like Material Is Being Developed, Holds Promise For Carbon Dioxide Capture & Storage
British researchers have developed a porous material that can preferentially soak up carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
WHO Reclassifies Diesel Engine Fumes Carcinogenic That Have Linked To Cancer
World Health Organization (WHO) has raised the status of diesel exhaust from ‘probable carcinogen’ to carcinogen as it belongs and of the same category of a mustard gas and asbestos which are ‘major cancer risk’.
Bluefin Tuna Carries Radiation That Emanates From Japan’s Crippled Nuclear Plant
Previously, smaller fish and plankton were found with elevated levels of radiation in Japanese waters after a magnitude-9 earthquake in March 2011 triggered a tsunami that badly damaged the Fukushima Dai-ichi reactors.
Plastic Eating Fungi Could Be The Answer To The Plastic Wastes Woes Proliferating In Our Environment
Polyurethane raw material is one of the most widely used plastics in the world.
Vast Quantity Of Plastic Wastes In The Pacific Ocean Rises A Hundred Fold Over Forty Years
Vast amounts of plastic have been dumped into the ocean over the last few decades.
Giant Dinosaurs’ Flatulence Could Have Heated Up The Earth During The Mesozoic Era
Giant herbivorous sauropod dinosaurs may have produced enough greenhouse gas with their flatulence as research suggests.
Use Of Wind Farms Aggravate Climate Change, As Surrounding Air Temperature Heats Up – Study
Scientists at the State University of New York at Albany studied satellite data of the areas around the wind farms, in Texas, from 2003 to 2011.