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In countries like the United Kingdom and the United States, smoking is now accepted as a definite health hazard. Research has indicated clear links between smoking and a wide range of potentially lethal illnesses. Whereas at one time almost everyone smoked, this is no longer the case and in many people's eyes …

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Mitsubishi's Claim of Best Hand Dryer for the Environment Supported by Recent Study


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The debate over which is better for the environment - paper towels of hand dryers - continues to be debated, but a recent peer-reviewed study of seven hand drying systems found that high speed hand dryers …

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Chris Stringer of the Natural History Museum in London confirms that "out of Africa", 50,000 years ago, humans colonised far and wide. An ancient Asian skull of modern Homo sapiens clinches this, and confirms that claims for humans as far away as Australia and New Guinea a few thousand years later are …

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Ocean Health Index provides valuable data




Nature have published an earth-shattering or rather ocean-shattering index and report. It has triggered a new website and regular reports will be published on the Ocean Health Index. Benjamin S. Halpern and a flotilla of marine scientists launch this assessment of the health and benefits …

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Carbon sinks, such as oceans and forests are still soaking up half of the greenhouse gases produced by human activity but for how long?



With countries like the US, China and India producing more and more emissions that warm our planet, some good news on carbon dioxide is long overdue. What seems to be happening is …

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More of Greenland's surface ice sheet has melted this month than since records began 30 years ago.

A massive 97% of the surface ice sheet melted in July and was so large that scientists could scarcely believe it. Much of the meltwater freezes again later, but the findings still give cause for concern.

But …

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When the screw-corvette (ie. steam-assisted, Pearl class) Challenger began taking sub-surface sea temperatures in 1872, she was so much the equivalent of current space shuttles that one was named after her! This significant vessel, during her even more significant 4-year voyage, also took the first ever …

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We have too much carbon dioxide.

We need more food for an ever increasing population.

Join the two global problems together and the obvious solution is, plants.

The photosynthetic ability to absorb CO2 is exclusive to green plants and experiments have indeed proved they can adapt to take in more.

When we realise that …

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Climate change is the biggest and most controversial environmental issue of our times. Or rather, the cause of climate change is.

The fact that the Earth's climate has changed over its history - sometimes with cataclysmic consequences, called mass extinctions, for many of the planet's inhabitants - is not disputed. However, …

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