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Biophilic Office: Interior Design Principles and Benefits

Green Business Bureau

Indoor air quality can be negatively impacted by printers and copy machines that emit toner particles and toxic gasses such as ozone, nitrogen dioxide and other volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Effects of biophilic indoor environment on stress and anxiety recovery: A between-subjects experiment in virtual reality. 2] Wheeler, G.,

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Air Travel and Climate Change

Green Market Oracle

Every day, the FAA's Air Traffic Organization provides service to more than 44,000 flights and 2.7 Nitrogen oxides produced by air travel increases ozone concentrations in the upper troposphere which warms the planet more than it would at lower altitudes. Air travel is a major source of climate change causing greenhouse gases.

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Understand more about Disinfection at lesser hazard

Econaur

Dissolving the pathogenic micro-organism using strong solvents like alcohol or soap. Oxidising (much-localised burning / disintegrating) the pathogenic micro-organism. There are two basic methods of disinfection-. To resolve this for disinfection of surfaces and contact points like handles etc. anthracis spores) (Buttner et al.

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Logging is destroying southern forests — and dividing US environmentalists

Grist

The signatories of the 2020 “agreement of principles” included conservation nonprofits like the Environmental Defense Fund, the American Forest Foundation, American Forests, and the Nature Conservancy, or TNC, the largest and wealthiest nonprofit conservation organization in the U.S. communities and destroyed U.S.

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‘How did we miss this for so long?’: The link between extreme heat and preterm birth

Grist

Basu analyzed 60,000 summertime births — those taking place between May and September — from 1999 to 2006, across 16 California counties. Pollutants from vehicle combustion, including nitrogen oxides and volatile organic compounds, react in sunlight to form ozone. And the U.S.

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Inside the University of Chicago’s controversial solar geoengineering initiative

Grist

In 2006, a group of preeminent scientists met for a two-day conference at the NASA Ames Research Center in California to discuss cooling the Earth by injecting particles into the stratosphere to reflect sunlight into space. At some point, one of the conference rooms became overheated.

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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

DeSmogBlog

Today K-Solv is legally allowed to release almost 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did back then. Tim Doty is the scientist who led the TCEQ mobile monitoring team that recorded Channelview’s high benzene levels back in 2005 and 2006.