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Pollution Studies
New biotech tools could clean up everything from construction to agriculture.
In this excerpt from "The Formula for Better Health," Tom Frieden explores how Alice Hamilton transformed public health in her fight against lead poisoning.
Across planet Earth, dark and pristine night skies are an increasingly rare resource. These photos showcase the best of what we still have.
The Roman Empire at one point emitted roughly 3,600 tons of lead dust per year, causing “widespread cognitive decline.”
They’re in our brains, hearts, and blood — but what are they doing to us?
It would get rid of our hazardous, radioactive, and pollutive waste for good, but physics tells us it's a losing strategy for elimination.
In 1957, humanity launched our first satellite; today's number is nearly 10,000, with 500,000+ more planned. Space is no longer pristine.
Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?
The ominous cloud of acid rain hasn't vanished but rather drifted toward the developing world.
Without even realizing it, we’ve actually become pretty god-like in our powers.
With LEDs bringing brighter nighttime lighting than ever before, and thousands of new satellites polluting the skies, astronomy needs help.
Finding alien technology on the seafloor would be truly incredible. This extraordinary claim, however, is debunked by the actual evidence.
In many ways, it was worse than Chernobyl.
Today, many Maya sites are polluted with toxic levels of mercury. The contamination likely originated from cinnabar paints and art.
Left to their own devices, yeast cells will consume all available resources and poison themselves to death. Is humanity smarter than that?
Many countries just ship their plastic waste overseas.
"Ghost gear" leads to hundreds of thousands of animal deaths.
Economic growth is more about quality than quantity.
Based on product labeling claims, scientists hypothesized that green cleaners were less toxic. They were wrong.
Scuba divers often appear to be swimming through a calm and muffled universe. This couldn't be farther from the truth.
‘Fast Optical Bursts’ will confound ground-based astronomy. As of 2021, planet Earth is currently experiencing the least pristine night sky in recorded history. Prior to the development of artificial lighting, […]
It would be the ultimate method for solving our pollution or hazardous/radioactive waste problems, but we’ll never do it. Here’s why. Imagine our planet as it was for the first 4.55 […]