Grist

MAY 23, 2024

The most dominant polymer found in the samples was polyethylene, which is the most commonly produced plastic globally. Microplastics are particles less than 5 millimeters in diameter — about the width of a paperclip — and they tend to slough off of larger plastic items as they break down. In a testicle that weighs 20 grams (0.7

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

Most people get so used to treating their health conditions with pharmaceutical pills that the thought of using herbs as medicine seems outdated to them. The post 6 Reasons Why You Should Switch To Herbal Medicines appeared first on Green Living Guy. It’s important.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2025

Partner Insight: Jihane Ball, lead sustainability director at Dow, discusses the importance of achieving a global treaty to end plastic pollution, and the role of meaningful stakeholder collaboration in enabling it I've worked across many roles at Dow, the materials science company, over the last 18 years.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Choosing reclaimed wood reduces the fossil fuel use and pollution that comes from clearing and processing trees into lumber. RECYCLED PLASTIC. And unlike wood and PVC, Tangent Materials structural lumber doesn’t need to be chemically treated, avoiding the release of harmful pollutants into the air, water and ground. in one hour.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

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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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

In the 1970s, Dr. Bernard Goldstein, a young professor at the New York University School of Medicine, researched the health impacts of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) produced by gas stoves. This shaped federal regulation of both indoor and outdoor air pollution. Our new report shows that gas stove emissions should also be added to that list.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Goods such as food, timber and medicinal ingredients. In the food sector, which accounts for more than half of this pressure, deforestation, overfishing and plastic waste are among the biggest issues, while energy impacts come from pollution and greenhouse gas emissions. Cultural, spiritual, education and recreation needs.

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Grist

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The Two Medicine River, sacred to the Amskapi Pikuni, the Blackfeet, rushes nearby. The mammals leave their scat, infused with whatever toxins were originally in the insects, on the sides of the Two Medicine and other water bodies on the reservation. She knows this landscape by heart. Frost dives after it, ecstatic.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The use of CBD is rapidly increasing across various dimensions – be it medicinal or skincare. However, the hype of CBD is significant in its therapeutic use, where the CBD infused products are used for healing insomnia, depression, acne, and various other health issues.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

P&G and GSK are among companies to commit to reducing their plastics impact and CO2 emissions as part of a new charter on sustainable self-care.

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 1, 2022

Many natural products have overtaken their synthetic counterparts for a larger share of the consumer market. Others are just becoming popular now. Here is a look at 10 natural products that have been widely embraced over the past 10 years. Green Cleaning Products Gone are the days when the cheapest or strongest-smelling cleaner won […].

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 9, 2024

In the time it takes you to read this sentence — say, four seconds — the world produces nearly 60 metric tons of plastic, almost entirely out of fossil fuels. Those numbers are fueling widespread and growing contamination of Earth’s oceans, rivers, and the terrestrial environment with plastic trash.

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Grist

JULY 24, 2019

Lycorma delicatula , named for the lantern-shaped body of the adult that appears to glow under its dull wings, is used in traditional medicine in China, its native land. Land use, pollution, fire history—all factor into ecology. Since the bug was first identified in 2014, it has been devastating vineyards and orchards in the Northeast.

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GreenBiz

MAY 24, 2021

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

We often take the land for granted, even though - or perhaps because - it is literally the foundation of everything we do, from the materials that make up our homes, workplaces, and transport systems to the source of our food, water, and medicines. And those are the only the most obvious essential services provided by the land.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Through targeted or accidental by-catch around the world, fisheries pose the largest threat to these graceful creatures, with the international trade of gill plates (used in Chinese medicine as pseudo-remedies) being the primary driver of mobulid fisheries.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 19, 2020

While the news often mentions the terrible things in the sea, such as gyres of plastic and other trash, the oceans also hold an extremely valuable resource: seaweed. This renewable and easily harvestable organism is used for everything from food to spa treatments to a possible COVID-19 medicine.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

Related: Light pollution, habitat loss and pesticides push fireflies toward extinction Present-day wild axolotls have not fared well. Whatever water has remained is polluted by litter and offal, pesticides and non-organic fertilizers, heavy metals and toxic chemical runoff.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2019

And despite its many shortcomings, plastic continues to take market share from leather. The invention of the car came with urban sprawl, pollution, and over 1.25 Wherever we look, humans have consistently built technologies that surpass their animal predecessors. Food may be next. million fatalities each year.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The leader in water, hygiene and energy services sells to a diverse collection of institutions such as hospitals, food and beverage providers, as well as heavy industry including power plants and plastic manufacturers. The ride-sharing brand positions this as a radical shift that will benefit communities, partly by reducing pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

From a well-defined community like a dorm, epidemiological monitoring becomes more challenging as you scale it up, and attempt to monitor neighbourhoods or cities, as another talk explained, this time by Ted Smith, an associate professor of environmental medicine at the University of Louisville school of medicine, in Kentucky. .

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

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AGreenLiving

MAY 24, 2021

The facts have emerged through decades of publications that document the disproportionate risk of Black, Latino, Asian and Native American populations from pollution sources (proximity to manufacturing, storage, processing and waste management facilities, highways, landfills, contaminated water bodies and other dispersed sources).

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication. Leisure activities: Biking, Board Games, Traveling, Hiking, Brewing(coffee and beers), and Books (science and philosophy). every month.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Hurst’s causes outside Amazon include board positions with Stolen Youth, an organization dedicated to eradicating sex trafficking; as well as with the roundtable for sustainability that’s part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. million pounds of plastic, or 60 million bottles. LinkedIn | Twitter.

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Grist

JANUARY 18, 2024

Rick Tsai searches for evidence of lasting pollution in the creek water at a construction site at Leslie Run. In rubber boots and waders, smartphones strapped to their chests to document the pollution, they wield shovels and rods to dislodge rocks and earth that harbor reserves of substances persistently leaching into the creeks.

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