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As much as 47 percent of the edible U.S. seafood supply is lost each year, mainly from consumer waste, new research from the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future (CLF) suggests. The findings, published in the November issue of Global Environmental Change, come as food waste in general has been in the spotlight and concerns have been raised about the sustainability of the world’s seafood resources.
While rain forests have long scored attention for their role in trapping carbon, discussions concerning the Arctic have centered on whether or not, or how much, we are going to allow companies to drill for oil far up north. Now, scientists are suggesting the Arctic should have renewed focus for another reason: Climate change, accelerated by the melting of permafrost and resulting greenhouse gas emissions, could cost the global economy, in the long run, as much as $43 trillion.
A new Yale-led study reveals that we’re disposing of more than twice as much solid waste as we thought we were here in the good ol’ U.S. of A.
Published on Sept. 21 in the Nature Climate Change journal and co-authored by Yale professor Julie Zimmerman and University of Florida professor Timothy G. Townsend, this study found that based on landfill measurements instead of government estimates, analysis of figures revealed that America tosses five pounds of trash per person per day.
Let that soak in for a moment. Five pounds of garbage. Per day. Per person. But it gets better, and by better, I mean worse.
Un nuevo estudio dirigido por la Universidad de Yale revela que estamos disponiendo de más del doble de los residuos sólidos que cuando estábamos en el bueno y viejo EEUU.
Publicado el 21 de septiembre en la revista Nature Climate Change y co-escrito por la profesora de Yale Julie Zimmerman y el profesor de la Universidad de la Florida Timothy G. Townsend, este estudio encontró que en base a mediciones en los confinamientos, en lugar de las estimaciones del gobierno, el análisis de las cifras revela que EEUU desecha cinco libras de basura por persona por día.
La inmensidad de los océanos del planeta hacen pensar que es casi imposible que nuestras acciones podrían llevarlos a un punto de no retorno, pero un nuevo informe ha encontrado que estamos causando una alarmante disminución de los ecosistemas marinos y las especies que dependen de ellos.
Existe una creciente cantidad de datos que sugieren que la fracturación hidráulica (fracking) puede tener efectos adversos sobre el medio ambiente. Un nuevo estudio, sin embargo, sugiere que las poblaciones que viven cerca de sitios de fracking, también tienen una mayor incidencia de complicaciones de salud.
