By Elias Marat A humongous mass of heavy, stinking seaweed stretching from the Gulf of Mexico to West Africa has already become the biggest seaweed bloom in recorded history, according to the journal Science. And the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt, as it is now known, could be a sign of […]
By Daisy Luther If you were caught up in the midst of a massive earthquake – the kind that takes down buildings and buckles roads – would you know what to do? I’m not talking about a minor temblor that shakes a glass off the counter and sends it to […]
By Mayukh Saha In true Scottish fashion of bringing something new to the world, Linkwood Steadings Housing development present in Elgin, Scotland has built a road using about 17000 bags of plastic. But how does one do that? Well, flexibility is an advantage, but that’s just a property useful for […]
By Catherine J. Frompovich The “hurry up” 5G rollouts have been instituted in various cities around the United States within the last few months. These locales include, but may not be limited to, selected areas of: Atlanta, GA; Austin, TX; Charlotte, NC; Dallas, TX; Houston, TX; Indianapolis, IN; Jacksonville, FL; […]
Adolescents exposed to elevated levels of pesticides are at an increased risk of depression, according to a new study led by Jose R. Suarez-Lopez, MD, PhD, assistant professor in the Department of Family Medicine and Public Health at University of California San Diego School of Medicine. The study was published […]
By Michael Snyder Even though most people don’t seem to realize it yet, we are in the midst of a major extinction level event. And even though it is happening in slow motion, given enough time we would see most life on this planet completely wiped out. Insects are absolutely […]
By Catherine J. Frompovich Imagine this weather shift: 88 degrees, then 6 feet of hail from an ice storm dumped on Guadalajara in northern Mexico on Sunday, June 30, 2019. If you don’t believe that, just check it out in this report from CBS News. What caused such a weather […]
In a recent study with 3 to 7-year-old children provided an example of how children’s daily living environment and motor skills are closely related in the Finnish context. The main finding revealed that residential density is related to children’s motor skills, engagement in outdoor play and organised sports. It was […]
By Elias Marat With the world’s oceans awash in plastic, beaches and islands across the globe are waging an uphill battle in the struggle to manage the plastic debris washing ashore—especially the millions of tiny microplastics that are nearly impossible to sift from the sand. In Hawaii, however, authorities hope that a […]
Bees are valuable to humans not only because they produce honey, but also because they pollinate wildflowers and food crops. They exclusively eat nectar and pine pollen. So in areas where intensive agriculture is practised, they suffer from the thin supply of flowers in May and June, when cultivated oilseed […]