Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The concept "precautionary principle" is generally considered to have arisen in English from a translation of the German term Vorsorgeprinzip in the 1970s in response to forest degradation and sea pollution, where German lawmakers adopted clean air act banning use of certain substances suspected in causing the environmental damage even though evidence of their impact was inconclusive at that ...
In January 2021 scientists reported that reductions in air pollution due to worldwide COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 were larger than previously estimated. It was concluded that, because of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the climate during that year, a slight warming of Earth's climate during the year was seen instead of a slight cooling.
Experts warn not to call the decline in emissions a silver lining: a sustainable emissions reduction can't totally splinter society
Moore is the founder of the Algalita Marine Research and Education [4] in Long Beach, California.. In 2008 the Foundation co-sponsored the JUNK Raft project, to "creatively raise awareness about plastic debris and pollution in the ocean", and specifically the Great Pacific Garbage Patch trapped in the North Pacific Gyre, by sailing 2,600 miles across the Pacific Ocean on a 30-foot-long (9.1 m ...
In Pittsboro, which takes its water from the Haw River downstream from pollution sources in Reidsville and Greensboro, the petition says 1,4-Dioxane levels have been measured at “more than 320 ...
To achieve environmental progress, we need solutions, innovation, and significant investments in new technologies, including advanced recycling. Opinion: When it comes to plastics pollution, we ...
Wallace-Wells is currently on staff at the New York Times with a weekly opinion newsletter and monthly long-form essays in The New York Times Magazine. His work has appeared in New York magazine, where he was the Deputy Editor for many years. [10] [11] He also writes for The Guardian. [12] He was a 2019 National Fellow at New America. [13]
One of the most notable scientific papers that first popularized hydroxychloroquine as a COVID-19 treatment was retracted from its journal due to ethical and methodological issues. Retractions in ...