Global expert Dr. Maria Neira, Director of the Department of Environment, Climate Change and Health at the World Health Organization, said that the UN considers air pollution a major public health emergency, because more than 7 million premature deaths occur annually as a result of exposure to air pollution around the world. Corona virus matter. … Read more
Published on : 27/01/2022 – 16:30 For its 4th edition, the School of the Anthropocene organized by the Urban School of Lyon brings together a hundred researchers, teachers, students, artists and writers to imagine, together, the possibilities around the global upheaval that occurs. Program recorded in Lyon, on the occasion of L’École de l’anthropocène. ► … Read more
An Argentine journalist recorded the sad reality of the Atacama Desert near Alto Hospicio: tons of unused clothes from all over the world that are discarded in this place. Sadly, the Atacama desert in Chile has been transformed into a clandestine dump of clothes from all over the world. New garments, with a label and … Read more
Gathered in congress this weekend in Lille, French pulmonologists are issuing an alert: according to a study carried out every ten years, lung cancer is progressing exponentially, especially in women. Another result is particularly worrying: if an overwhelming majority of these cancers remain linked to tobacco, more and more non-smokers are affected. These patients who … Read more
Published on : 21/01/2022 – 13:48 Scientists tell us that we have just crossed the fifth planetary limit, that of chemical pollution which “ is not compatible with remaining in a safe operating space for humanity “. We have a choice: react or ignore this degradation of our environment which threatens the habitability of the … Read more
S. M. Madrid Updated:11/01/2022 18:01h Keep Related news Long-term exposure to ambient air pollution may increase the risk of Covid-19 infection, suggests research published online in the journal «Occupational & Environmental Medicine». The average annual increase of 1 µg / m3 of particles is linked to a 5% increase in the infection rate. This is equivalent … Read more
The electoral campaign for the regional elections of February 13 in Castile and León, a region in northern Spain, has taken a carnivorous turn. The controversy had been brewing for a few months, it literally ignited after the statements at the end of December by the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Alberto Garzón, of the radical … Read more