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How supermarket freezers are heating the planet, and how they could change

How supermarket freezers are heating the planet, and how they could change

1 Comment / Climate Change, Global Warming, Pollution / By / January 30, 2023

Grocery chains under pressure to switch from HFCs to natural refrigerants to curb climate change Climate-conscious shoppers may buy local food and try to cut packaging waste, but those efforts could be negated by potent greenhouse gases leaking from supermarket fridges. Refrigerants called hydrofluorocarbons or HFCs are widely used to keep food cold or frozen at …

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Climate change is adding to a growing infectious disease burden – we need coordinated action now

Climate change is adding to a growing infectious disease burden – we need coordinated action now

1 Comment / Climate Change, Health, Information, Pollution, research, Save Earth / By / January 19, 2023

Tuberculosis (TB) is curable and preventable. Yet in 2021, around 1.6 million people died from the disease. Worldwide measles cases spiked by 79% in the first two months of 2022, despite a licensed vaccine against the disease being available since 1963. In refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, an outbreak of diphtheria – another disease preventable through vaccines – saw nearly …

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Scientists are finding increasing evidence for a link between air pollution and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s

Scientists are finding increasing evidence for a link between air pollution and neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s

Leave a Comment / Climate Change, Global Warming, Health, Pollution / By / January 13, 2023

The air in Mexico City was once so toxic that people watched as dead birds fell out of the sky. In 1992, the United Nations declared the city the most polluted in the world, with its unregulated diesel engines, factory production, fossil-fuel powered energy plants, and widespread use of internal-combustion engines, all trapped in a …

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EPA proposes plan to tighten air quality standards, cut down on deadly particle pollution

EPA proposes plan to tighten air quality standards, cut down on deadly particle pollution

2 Comments / Climate Change, Global Warming, Pollution, research, Save Earth / By / January 9, 2023

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Friday proposed a plan to tighten air pollution standards for the first time in a decade. The shift would aim to cut down on deadly particle pollution, otherwise known as soot, which is responsible for killing thousands yearly and disproportionately causing negative health …

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9 climate change apps that could help you live greener in 2023

9 climate change apps that could help you live greener in 2023

Leave a Comment / Brand, ChangeMaker, Climate Change, Environment, Innovation / By / January 5, 2023

Apps have their limits and challenges. But these nine offer tips, resources and motivation to help users be better climate citizens in the coming year. Want to produce less waste in 2023? Buy greener products? Support eco-friendly causes? There is, of course, an app for that. Actually, there are well over 100 apps, for both …

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