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Trees in cities throughout the UK could be significantly improving the quality of the air we breathe by decreasing pollution levels for pedestrians, researchers from the University of Leicester have revealed.
Las ramificaciones económicas, si continúa el modelo económico del siglo 20, en el que la extracción no sostenible y la contaminación dan una ventaja competitiva, están entrando en un enfoque muy claro. Citigroup ahora proyecta un asombroso costo global de $ 72 billones de dólares, ligado al cambio climático inducido por el hombre, durante el siglo 21. Se trata de una escala casi incomprensible de daño económico que es igual a la pérdida de cuatro años de todo el producto interno bruto de Estados Unidos.
El material particulado y la contaminación atmosférica por NO2 se asocian con un mayor riesgo de ataques cardíacos severos a pesar de estar dentro de los niveles recomendados por la Unión Europea, según un estudio presentado en el Congreso de la Sociedad Europea de Cardiología (ESC por sus siglas en inglés) por el Dr. Jean-Francois Argacha, cardiólogo del Hospital Universitario de Bruselas (UZ Brussel-Vrije Universiteit Brussel).
The collective climate targets submitted by Governments to the UN will lead to global emissions far above the levels needed to hold warming to below 2°C, researchers at the Climate Action Tracker warned today.
The analysis by the consortium of four research organisations was released today in Bonn where Governments are meeting for the second to last week of negotiations ahead of the Paris summit on climate action.
While many are used to thinking of ants as pests (especially during the summertime), new research published in British Ecological Society’s Journal of Applied Ecology says not so fast. Ants are actually pest controllers. They’re efficient, sustainable and safe, and these little guys are making a big impact on our planet.
A new satellite study has calculated that there are more than 3 trillion trees on Earth, around 422 trees for every person, although the number is believed to have dropped by 46 percent since the start of human civilisation. The Yale-led international research found the result of the tree count is around seven and a half times more than some previous estimates.
