Tag: human health
Recycling Lead-Acid Batteries Has Significant Health Risks
Dealing with the health and environmental risks from recycling lead used in batteries is something most car makers want nothing to do with.
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Michael Mann To Bill Gates: What World Are You Living In?
Bill Gates pictures himself as a technology and system innovator. In October, the billionaire philanthropist recontextualized climate action, global health, and development as mutually exclusive and in competition with each other in advance of the international climate summit, COP30. With his status as one of the original Silicon Valley tech … [continued]
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What herring gulls tell us about plastic pollution
By Victoria Witke
Christina Petalas, a doctoral student McGill University, studies herring gulls to learn about plastic pollution near the St. Lawrence River. Across two studies, she found plastic additives in every bird sampled, which could have human health consequences.
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A Phyto Finish: Could Seaweed Be Mined for Critical Minerals?
Some Seaweeds Accumulate Critical Minerals. NREL Scientists Are Studying Which Ones Do It Best Seaweed: the phyto(mining) frontier? Puns aside, seaweed is emerging as a surprising mining source. NREL chemist Stefanie Van Wychen and a team of five departed Juneau, Alaska, on an early spring—and surprisingly green—April morning. The crew … [continued]
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COMMENTARY: Michigan’s waterways need restoration
Waterways across the state of Michigan struggle with the adverse effects of factories. To protect the water bodies of the state, clean-up projects for waterways are essential to combat ecosystem […]