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WEB50 years ago, some of plastic’s toxic hazards were exposed. Worker exposure to vinyl chloride became tightly regulated after the chemical was linked with liver cancer. Now, its use may be on the ...
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WEB2 days ago · Environment. The new estimate, based on data from 135 low- and middle-income countries, is more than double the World Health Organization’s official count. By Claire Yuan August 15, 2024. 1 2 3 ...
What lifestyle changes will shrink your carbon footprint the most?
WEBMay 14, 2020 · Americans, specifically, waste about 25 percent of the food we buy. According to Project Drawdown, adopting a vegetarian diet can also cut emissions, by about 63 percent, while going vegan can ...
Mass shootings and gun violence in the United States are increasing
WEBMay 26, 2022 · On May 24, at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, 19 children and two teachers were killed by a shooter. Just 10 days earlier, a white gunman was accused of a racially motivated shooting in a ...
Social media harms teens’ mental health, mounting evidence …
WEBFeb 20, 2024 · The concern, and the studies, come from statistics showing that social media use in teens ages 13 to 17 is now almost ubiquitous. Two-thirds of teens report using TikTok, and some 60 percent of ...
How science has evolved in the 100 years since Science News' …
WEBApr 2, 2021 · A century ago, articles in the precursor to Science News frequently focused on astronomy and space, exploring such issues as whether other planets existed beyond Neptune. SCIEPRO/Science Photo ...
How plate tectonics upended our understanding of Earth
WEBJan 13, 2021 · Kevin Schafer/Alamy Stock Photo. Plate tectonics describes how Earth’s entire, 100-kilometer-thick outermost layer, called the lithosphere, is broken into a jigsaw puzzle of plates — slabs of ...
How scientists found out that climate change is real and …
WEBMar 10, 2022 · In 1979, Charney and other experts met in Woods Hole, Mass., to try to put together a scientific consensus on what increasing levels of CO 2 would mean for the planet. The resulting “Charney ...
Are viruses alive? And why does it matter? | Science News
WEBNov 1, 2021 · In the 1800s, they were called biological particles. By the early 1900s, they’d been demoted to inert chemicals. Throughout, viruses have rarely been considered alive. More than 120 definitions ...