Tag: Pollution
Pollution behind every sixth death
Facts: The pollution The new report has been produced by a research association called the Global Alliance on Health and Pollution. It is about both air, water and soil where…
Pollution causes nine million premature deaths worldwide
News Published 14 hours ago, Reading 2 mins. According to a study published Wednesday in the journal Lancet, pollution has caused nine million premature deaths worldwide since 2019, a record…
Migratory birds threatened by public lighting
Migratory birds, essential links of biodiversity, face many threats during their journeys across the planet. Among them, light pollution, which causes the death of millions of birds every year. Reducing…
Radiative forcing: what is it?
The term radiative forcing is used in climatology to set the “difference between downward illuminance and upward illuminance”reads the glossary of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Understand, the…
India and Pakistan suffocate under heat dome and pollution from fires
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the oil company Perenco wants to be reassuring after the discovery of a leak near Port-Gentil
After the leak detected Thursday at a terminal in Cap Lopez, near Port-Gentil, the management of the Perenco company ensures that the situation is under control, but NGOs fear marine…
oil leak in a Perenco terminal, already blamed for repeated pollution
A leak detected Thursday, April 28 in an oil terminal near Port-Gentil, the economic capital of the country, caused a suspension until further notice of oil exports. Perenco, the company…
5 zero-waste accessories that are easy to adopt (for beginners)
Choosing zero waste can be scary. Drastically changing habits that have been ingrained for years is not a trivial act. And the risk is sometimes to derive frustrations rather than…
Another damage caused by air pollution has emerged
Globally, 91 percent of the population still lives in areas where recommended air quality guidelines are not met, according to the World Health Organization (WHO). Experts say that they observe…
New sound radars to fight against noise in Paris
These are radars that target the noisiest vehicles. Seven communities have applied to test these radars of a new kind, including the city of Paris which has just installed two…