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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
A telltale signature of a cookstove, commonly used to prepare food or provide heat by burning wood, charcoal, animal dung or crop residue, is the thick, sooty smoke that rises from the flames.
According to a recent analysis of data from two major eye disease studies, adherence to the Mediterranean diet – high in vegetables, whole grains, fish, and olive oil – correlates with higher cognitive function.
As a persistent drought drags on, water levels are dropping at a key reservoir that supplies Santiago.
When a fire extinguisher is opened, the compressed carbon dioxide forms ice crystals around the nozzle, providing a visual example of the physics principle that gases and plasmas cool as they expand.
Look around. Can you see the air? No? Luckily, many of NASA's Earth-observing satellites can see what the human eye can't -- including potentially harmful pollutants lingering in the air we breathe.
Last year was one of the worst years on record for the Greenland ice sheet, which shrunk by hundreds of billions of tons.
