Mounting evidence suggests that environmental factors—in particular, those that we are exposed to during perinatal life—can dramatically shape
Other important considerations include gentrification, environmental justice, and health equity issues, which can be improved or worsened by the car-free initiatives. Resistance to sustainable development agendas globally highlights the concern from communities that the impact of well-intentioned policies coul...
January 16, 2025The complexity in comparing global warming data with India’s specific warming trends arises from several factors, including different data sets, geographical variations, and environmental conditions. Key challenges include: Baseline Differences Global Warming: Global warming measurements typic...
already acute. Introduction Environmental factors have a clear influence on how humans behave and perform. Excessive heat has been shown to be an important negative externality with an effect on the productivity of workers1,2,3,4,5. Excessively hot environments are precursors of biophysical and ...
Only Ed A free educational resource of current event news and views about environmental sustainability and human ecologyNew research in the Journal of Applied Ecology shows that ground beetles help farmers in the UK by devouring weed seeds before they can sprout. The researchers say the study ...
Department of Economic, Social and Environmental History, Institute of History, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland Christian Rohr & Oliver Wetter Department of Geography, University of Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Lothar Schulte Transdisciplinary Research Centre Culture, Space and Memory, University of ...
A second event occurred a few years later: the nation’s retail poultry supply was discovered to be widely contaminated with extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) producing bacteria. A prominent news story, alleging a direct link to the death of an infected person, heightened public health conc...
Environmental and social factors importantly contribute to this impact: conspiracy beliefs under a ‘sacred canopy’ (i.e., a social support buffer) can benefit an individual to a similar extent as being part of a religious or social organization; but these beliefs can exacerbate psychopathological...
Furthermore, the majority of existing (in vitro and in vivo) studies which have investigated the toxicity of environmental PM samples have been performed in the EU and US, and there is a lack of investigations of samples obtained from other countries. This is important as different emission ...
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