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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
A new study by scientists from the University of Tasmania, CSIRO and the University of South Australia is the first to find a relationship between plastic debris ingested by seabirds and liver concentrations of mineral metals, with potential links to pollution and nutrition.
The Paris Agreement in 2015 proposed a target to limit global warming to less than 2℃ and pursue efforts to limit warming to less than 1.5℃.
Conventional plastic is made from oil. The production of plastic is not sustainable, and it can contain substances we know are dangerous if ingested.
A team of leading environmental experts, spearheaded by the University of Nottingham, have warned that the current war on plastic is detracting from the bigger threats to the environment.
Secondary forests play an important part in carbon capture because they tend to absorb a larger amount of carbon than they lose to the atmosphere.
There has never been a more dangerous time than the COVID-19 pandemic for people with non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as diabetes, cancer, respiratory problems or cardiovascular conditions, new UNSW Sydney research has found.
