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Environmental News Network -- Know Your Environment
What affects almost everything made of metal, from cars to boats to underground pipes and even the fillings in your teeth? Corrosion — a slow process of decay. At a global cost of trillions of dollars annually, it carries a steep price tag, not to mention, the potential safety, environmental and health hazards it poses.
It seems so obvious now: innovators are turning to nature for inspiration in building, chemistry, agriculture, energy, health, transportation, computing–even the design of organizations and cities. Biomimicry is taught from kindergarten to university and practiced in all scales of enterprise.
An apple a day may keep the doctor away, but the mold on it could make you sick.
Even if the planet only warms up by 1.5 degrees Celsius – which is what the signatories to the Paris climate agreement are aiming for – one-third of all Asian glaciers will have melted by 2100, according to a study carried out by Utrecht University researchers, which will be published in Nature on 14 September.
Ha habido un gran interés de los académicos y el público en general sobre los efectos nocivos de estar sentados en el trabajo por largos períodos de tiempo. La atención que se presta a sentarse – o a no sentarse - en el trabajo proviene del mensaje científicamente validado de que ser sedentario en general, tanto en el interior como en el exterior, es malo para su salud.
The Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM core satellite analyzed Hurricane Jose and found some very tall, powerful thunderstorms within, despite still being battered by wind shear as it moves between Bermuda and the Bahamas.
