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Almost nowhere on Earth safe from PM2.5, says Melbourne study

Envirotec Magazine

Calcutta, India: In southern Asia and eastern Asia, more than 90% of days had daily PM 2.5 Now this study, led by Professor Yuming Guo, from the Monash University School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine in Melbourne, Australia, and published in Lancet Planetary Health , provides a map of how PM 2.5 The highest PM 2.5

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Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand?

GreenBiz

A few tech companies are working to grow clean hydrogen in Europe and Asia and, lately, California. SGH2 CEO Robert Do, whose background is in physics, medicine and business, can’t name companies yet but said, "We have also had enormous interest from other buyers in California and globally. The image above describes SGH2's process.

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Demo plant produces industrial sugars from mixed household waste fractions

Envirotec Magazine

The South Wales-based plant’s commissioning marks the next phase of the innovative VAMOS (Value Added Materials from Organic Waste Sugars) project, set up to examine the feasibility of innovative resource recovery techniques to use municipal waste as a raw material feedstock for the circular and bio-based economy.

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Can Asia’s infectious disease-producing wildlife trade be stopped?

Grist

Aili Kang, director of the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Asia program , believes COVID-19 may finally provide sufficient motivation to do so. Kang, who grew up in China, explains that while medicinal use of wild animal products has long held a central role in Chinese medicine, historically, consumption as food was restricted to nobility.

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Dengue, Lyme, and cholera: how climate change is spurring disease

Grist

It also has resounding implications for how insects and other organisms move through the world, intermingle, and spread disease to human populations. Insects and other organisms that carry disease spend much of their lives in the same place, which is why certain diseases are endemic to specific areas.

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Major Animal Pharma Industry Group Forced to Remove UN Logo from ‘Misleading’ Briefing on Livestock Climate Impact

DeSmogBlog

The policy briefing document was released in early January by Belgium-based organization, HealthforAnimals (HfA), which represents some of the world’s biggest and best known animal pharmaceutical companies, including Zoetis, Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, Merck Animal Health, Elanco Animal Health, IDEXX, and Ceva Santé Animale.

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Persistence is key: Unpacking the PFAS remediation conundrum

Envirotec Magazine

One signatory, Associate Professor Tony Fletcher, from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said: “We have found effects on human health in the few specific PFAS which have been studied in detail, and exposure up to now is so widespread.” “As Signatories include most UN member states (although notably not the US).

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