For a good friend: To improve health for serious anemia through natural means, especially for those inclined towards plant-based or raw diets, incorporating specific foods and lifestyle changes can be beneficial. Here is a blog post I put together for you outlining natural ways to address serious anemia and sugar addiction: Anemia, characterized by low... Continue Reading →
WHAT IS ECO-ANXIETY Climate change is a reality and threatens the future of the Earth. This can cause psychological impacts on some people, a phenomenon which is known as eco-anxiety. Below, we review what it is, what causes it, what its symptoms are and what we can do to avoid it while taking care of... Continue Reading →
Eco-anxiety: the psychological aftermath of the climate crisis
Researchers from NASA monitor, using airborne observations, the levels of carbon monoxide and ozone in wildfire plumes (a) The distribution of ΔO3/ΔCO ratio along the longitude within the wildfire plume and (b) the estimated longitudinal CO plume age distribution based on the NAST-I measurements. Credit: The Authors doi 10.1117/1.JRS.16.034522 Wildfires, characterized by unplanned, uncontrolled, and... Continue Reading →
Understanding the effect of wildfires on air quality: a NASA initiative
Tap water is thousands of times better for the environment than bottled water, according to scientists. In fact, it takes three times as much water to produce a plastic bottle as it can hold. This might not come as a surprise but researchers at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal) have crunched the numbers... Continue Reading →
Bottled water is 3,500 times worse for the environment than tap water, say scientists
WHO and almost 200 other health associations urge governments around world to halt ‘environmental vandalism’ The World Health Organization (WHO) and almost 200 other health associations have made an unprecedented call for a global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty. A call to action published on Wednesday, urges governments to agree a legally binding plan to phase... Continue Reading →
Health groups call for global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty
End fossil fuels to protect human health | Carolyn Orr | TEDxUWA
Carolyn explores how fossil fuels are harming our health, and shows that a world without coal, oil or gas will be cleaner, healthier and safer for us all. She believes that each of us has the power and the responsibility to help hasten the transition to a world without fossil fuels. Carolyn is a Perth-based... Continue Reading →
Not all deaths are created equal. In February 2020, the world began to panic about the novel coronavirus, which killed 2714 people that month. This made the news. In the same month, around 800,000 people died from the effects of air pollution. That didn’t. Novelty counts for a lot. At the start of the pandemic,... Continue Reading →
Ten Million a Year
A new study from Boston University School of Public Health has found a link between living with exposure to more green space and an improvement in cognitive function. The research suggests that living near greenery could especially boost cognitive function for middle-age women, ultimately reducing rates of depression and possibly dementia. The paper, published in... Continue Reading →
Living Near Greenery Could Improve Cognitive Function
“We Created the Pandemicene”: Ed Yong on How the Climate Crisis Could Spark the Next Pandemic
Climate change is forcing animal migrations at an unprecedented scale, bringing many previously disconnected species into close contact and dramatically raising the likelihood of viruses leaping into new hosts and sparking future pandemics. That’s according to a new study in the journal Nature, which predicts that climate-driven disruptions to Earth’s ecosystems will create thousands of... Continue Reading →
By completely rewiring the network of animal viruses, climate change is creating a new age of infectious dangers. For the world’s viruses, this is a time of unprecedented opportunity. An estimated 40,000 viruses lurk in the bodies of mammals, of which a quarter could conceivably infect humans. Most do not, because they have few chances... Continue Reading →
We Created the ‘Pandemicene’
HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT ANDCLIMATE CHANGE COALITIONWorld Health Organization–UN Environment–World Meteorological Organization-United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Opens to a PDF on the Environmental Impact on Health