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Prenatal POP exposure may increase the risk of metabolic disorders in adolescence Exposure before birth to persistent organic pollutants (POPs)-- organochlorine pesticides, industrial chemicals, etc.--may increase the risk in adolescence of metabolic disorders, such as obesity and high blood pressure. This was the main conclusion of a study by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a research centre supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation. The study was based on data from nearly 4...

 E-Mail Exposure before birth to persistent organic pollutants (POPs)-- organochlorine pesticides, industrial chemicals, etc.--may increase the risk in adolescence of metabolic disorders, such as obesity and high blood pressure. This was the main conclusion of a study by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a research centre supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation. The study was based on data from nearly 400 children living in Menorca, who were followed from before birth until...

Al Bussaya, Muthanna Province, Iraq – The wind whipped relentlessly across the open deserts of Muthanna province as Ali Thajeel moved his camel herd along the rugged plains in search of greenery. Decades ago, he remembered, April was a time when the sandy soil turned into grazing land to allow his livestock to gain weight ahead of the scorching summer heat. But in recent years, his camels had to make do with scattered patches of scruffy grass. “There’s no rain, and the land is dry. The gr...

‘There’s no rain’: Climate change threatens Iraq’s Bedouins Simona Foltyn UP NEXT Al Bussaya, Muthanna Province, Iraq – The wind whipped relentlessly across the open deserts of Muthanna province as Ali Thajeel moved his camel herd along the rugged plains in search of greenery. Decades ago, he remembered, April was a time when the sandy soil turned into grazing land to allow his livestock to gain weight ahead of the scorching summer heat. But in recent years, his camel...

Apr 22, 2021 Selena Gomez by Lisabjo and Cate Blanchett by Gage Skidmore and Salma Hayek by Gage Skidmore and Mark Ruffalo by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Orlando Bloom en El Hormiguero de Pablo Motos by ElHormiguero is licensed under CC BY-ND 2.0. Pharrell by Karl Hab and Meryl Streep from ‘Florence Foster Jenkins’ at Opening Ceremony of the Tokyo International Film Festival 2016 by Dick Thomas Johnson is licensed under CC BY 2.0 It’s the 51st anniversary of Earth Day, a...

A new report by the United Nations and Oxford University calls on countries to use economic recovery spending on climate action.

Download 12.87 MB The welfare of animals and the war against poachers attracts a lot of international attention but what about the welfare and working conditions of the park rangers? Fadzie Mushonga has spent time on the front line embedded with rangers in Zimbabwe and saw first hand how the militarisation of conservation has adversely affected not only the rangers but also the communities who live near by.  Guest

Benchmarking Building Control Systems Thanks to Calibrated Models Sponsored by CSEMJan 19 2021 Buildings play an important role in total energy consumption and worldwide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Smart control strategies are key technological enablers for reducing the GHG footprints of buildings. 3,4 but their simple nature, combined with possible tuning errors, can lead to sub-optimal control behavior. 5 Automatized, efficient building control can significantly reduce ene...

Are all those beaches shrinking and islands drowning? - Politicsweb 8 March 2021 - Back in 1989 Noel Brown, director of the New York office of the United Nations (UN) Environment Programme, said that entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend was not reversed by the year 2000. Melting polar ice caps would cause sea levels to rise by three feet, enough to cover the Maldives and other flat-island nations, he warned. John Kane-Berman  ...

A new UN report estimates 17 per cent of the food produced globally each year is wasted. That represents a big environmental toll. Canadians are more wasteful than Americans, the report found.