The forgotten borough is getting smoked out! New York’s controversial plan to enforce a $15 toll to drive on some of Manhattan’s busiest streets will just favor Midtown’s wealthy elite — and increase pollution in Staten Island’s minority neighborhoods, local pols claimed Thursday. “If someone wanted to deliberately create a plan with the goals that … Read more
We are all aware of the dangers of pollution to our air, water, and earth. In a letter recently published in Nature Human Behavior, scientists are advocating for the recognition and mitigation of another type of environmental pollution that poses equivalent personal and societal dangers: information overload. With the internet at our fingertips with smartphones, … Read more
A new method of timber analysis developed by researchers from the University of Gothenburg can confidently identify the location in which the tree was harvested. The method has been developed with the aim of combating illegal timber imports from Russia and Belarus. Illegal logging and the associated trade in wood products is a global problem … Read more
The period that liquid water was present on the surface of Mars may have been shorter than previously thought. Channel landforms called gullies, previously thought to be formed exclusively by liquid water, can also be formed by the action of evaporating CO2 ice. That is the conclusion of a new study by Lonneke Roelofs, a … Read more