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World Environment Day 2021 date: On June 5 every year, the World Environment Day is observed. If we do not save nature now, we will not be able to achieve sustainable development, the UNEP chief said. Know all about the theme and importance this year

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Andersen said without both methane and carbon dioxide reductions the world cannot achieve the goals in the 2015 Paris climate agreement. Study lead author Drew Shindell, a Duke University Earth sciences professor, said recent acceleration of methane pollution “is really taking us far far off” the Paris goals. Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer, who wasn’t part of the report and co-wrote a study last week on the gas, called methane “the best dial we can turn to slow the rate of warming.” Methane reduction can provide short-term help in the long effort to curb...

Childhood Behavioral Problems Linked to Maternal Smoking by Colleen Fleiss on  May 1, 2021 at 1:10 AM Behavioral problems in early childhood are associated with a pregnant woman's exposure to tobacco smoke and pollution from road traffic, revealed a recent study led by a team from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a centre supported by the "la Caixa" Foundation. The study, published in Environmental International, is the first to investigate the impact of the exposome--i.e. the set of all environmental exposures, both chemical and non-chemical, during t...