A health study in Pennsylvania, USA, shows that people living near fracking and other natural gas wells are more likely to suffer from skin conditions and upper respiratory symptoms. It calls for further study of the associations, including the role of specific air and water exposures.
… Skin, respiratory symptoms increase near gas wells The Ecologist | 25th September 2014 News Gas Fossil Fuels Science Fracking USA Health pa-gas-well-cut.jpg A health study in …
A new study in the US's 'fracking capital' Pennsylvania has found that pregnant women who live near gas fracking wells are far more likely to give birth prematurely or develop problems during their pregnancies.
… News Health Fracking Energy Science USA pa-gas-well-cut.jpg A new study in the US's … has found that pregnant women who live near gas fracking wells are far more likely to give … Expectant mothers who live near natural gas fracking wells are 40% more likley to give …
Record global temperatures in 2015 and 2016 are causing a humanitarian crisis that is more than double that of conflict as a cause of displacement and migration, the WMO stated today. Heatwaves, flood, drought and fires are all contributing to the declining food and water security affecting over 60 million people worldwide.
… breaking. Concentrations of major greenhouse gases in the atmosphere continue to increase … working to improve monitoring of greenhouse gas emissions to help countries reduce them. … have remained fairly stable. Greenhouse gas concentrations Annual average global …
Nanotechnology has the power to affect every aspect of life on the planet. Here, the Ecologist presents the many claims of its promoters and outlines some of the major developments taking place now or in the near future. In response, some of it’s leading critics analyse the risks that nanotechnology poses in their various fields of expertise.
… the lung’s defences into the spaces where gas exchange between the air and the blood … engineering nanotube-based sensors to detect gas leakages in chemical plants and … will cost 10 times less than conventional gas detectors and operate for a year on watch …
Sooner than it takes to build a nuclear power station, lithium-air batteries could be helping wind and solar to make coal, oil and nuclear obsolete, say Cambridge scientists. Five times lighter and five times cheaper than current lithium batteries, Li-air would open the way to our 100% renewable future.
… energy density would be comparable to that of gasoline - and would enable an electric car … batteries become a viable alternative to gasoline. Now researchers from the University … will be to make new investments in oil, gas, coal, or nuclear with a multi-decadal …