Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

A new study appears to reveal rapid degradation in air quality in megacities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East – as well as increases in urban exposure to air pollutants hazardous to health. of up to 12% for ammonia and up to 11% for reactive volatile organic compounds. The researchers also found 1.5-

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 31, 2024

“These misleading ads are deeply offensive to every healthcare worker who has to treat patients suffering from the health effects of climate change,” said Dr. Melissa Lem in a statement. Ad Standards is a national not-for-profit advertising self-regulatory organization in Canada. A Canada Action ad appearing in February 2024.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

The signing of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in 2001 marked a historic moment, as it was the first global treaty aimed at eliminating or restricting chemicals harmful to human and environmental health.

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The City Fix

MARCH 24, 2023

About two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. While cities are hubs of innovation and opportunity, the increasing pace of urbanization also exacerbates inequality, stresses infrastructure, and fuels climate change, air pollution and other environmental problems.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

As a researcher at the California Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, Basu knew that other vulnerable populations, notably the elderly, were particularly susceptible to heat. Higher temperatures will also have knock-on impacts to gestational and fetal health. percent in South Asia.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In more modern times, support for aquaculture has ebbed and flowed along with concerns about animal health and welfare, worries over the effluent pollution caused by wastewater discharges, and the unintended impacts of production infrastructure such as pipes and pumps on natural ecosystems. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Conversely, the domestic and livestock sectors drive organic and pathogen pollution worldwide”, Jones remarks. Our simulations show that, for a large part of the year, water quality in several regions would still exceed critical thresholds for human uses and ecosystem health. Difficult puzzle.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2023

The region of Central and South Asia was home to eight of the world’s ten cities with the worst air pollution. Everyone deserves to have their health protected from air pollution,” states Aidan Farrow, Sr. Bangladesh (65.8 µg/m 3 ) more than 13 times higher than the WHO PM2.5 annual guideline. guideline value of 5 µg/m 3.

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Green Living Guy

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

News Release | 24 November 2022Read time: 3 mins MANILA, PHILIPPINES (24 November 2022) — Countries in central and west Asia have endorsed three new cross-border cooperation initiatives to help accelerate the region’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, improve food security, and boost the development of clean energy.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 14, 2021

For the last two decades, the European Union has played a leadership role in tackling the risks hazardous chemicals pose to our health and environment. Several countries in Asia, including China, the world’s largest chemical producer, have developed national chemical regulatory programs strongly influenced by the EU’s design.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

Currently, five golf organizations have joined: the United States Golf Association (USGA); Waste Management Phoenix Open; The International Golf Federation; World Minigolf Federation; and Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore. Nonprofit organizations such as the National Links Trust , recent bid winners to take over operations of Washington, D.C.’s

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Grist

JULY 25, 2023

Public health officials are particularly concerned about TBE, which is deadlier than more well-known tick diseases such as Lyme due to the way it has quickly jumped from country to country. According to the World Health Organization, there are between 10,000 and 12,000 cases of the disease in Europe and northern Asia each year.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

From our favorites like bees and butterflies, to the lesser appreciated organisms such as wasps and mosquitoes, insects are facing threats such as climate change, and a myriad of other ills such as habitat loss and pesticide use. Human health and food security is intrinsically tied to the health of insect populations.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The experiment was set up by the University of Oxford’s Professor Andy Hector and colleagues over twenty years ago as part of the SE Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP). This includes both the physical and environmental conditions that the species is adapted to, and how it interacts with other organisms.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2021

Greenpeace said the decision “disregards the human rights and interests of the people in Fukushima, wider Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.”. An issue that concerns environmentalists is the confusion around tritium, and the failure of data and modelling to explain the impact of organically bound tritium (OBT).

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 1, 2024

Animal agriculture giants are waging a disinformation war, threatening public health and the planet,” said Nicholas Carter, the report’s lead researcher. “We It is crucial that we take action to address this misinformation and its potentially devastating consequences on our environment, health, and food security.” In the U.S.

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 22, 2023

In Liberia, over 60 youth organizations collaborated to create a collective position on the nation’s climate goals, urging political leaders to act. Despite the despair, youth groups have embraced their awareness of these implications and fostered progress through intergenerational unity.

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Grist

AUGUST 1, 2023

That March, we started to see cholera, which is usually endemic in Malawi, becoming an outbreak,” said Gerrit Maritz, a deputy representative for health programs in Malawi for the United Nations Children’s Fund. Limited health resources were also stretched thin by COVID-19 and a polio outbreak, the first in 30 years.

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Grist

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the summer of 2022, one of the worst monsoons on record turned swaths of Bangladesh, a low-lying country in South Asia, into huge, muddy lakes. The true scale of the toll has not been fully captured by local officials, aid organizations, or the international research community. Death is the most severe health outcome,” said Schwarz.

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Grist

JUNE 5, 2024

Emissions of the tiny particles that cause smogs, collectively known as aerosols, are in decline across most of the world — apart from South Asia and Africa. Thanks to clean-air legislation intended to protect public health, aerosol emissions have been reduced in Europe and North America since the 1980s. That is changing, however.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. Chantelle Ludski is serving as the North America and Asia Pacific COO for the Anthesis Group sustainability consultancy. Thought for Food announced Melissa Ong as its Southeast Asia CEO. Who's news.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Clean water is critical to good health, yet according to the World Health Organisation, 1 in 3 people globally still do not have access to safe drinking water. This would reduce the need to add whole seed extract to water and minimise the presence of unnecessary organic matter that could encourage the growth of further micro-organisms.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

Given the fundamental importance of the ocean to all life on Earth, it is striking that there has not yet been a serious scientific assessment at scale of marine chemical pollution and its impact on biodiversity and marine ecosystems, and the overall health of the ocean. A coordinated approach.

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

But we know that in our communities, health and well-being varies significantly according to who you are and where you live. Our communities in these areas are bearing an unfair share of the health impact. And nearly every legislative district has neighborhoods highly impacted by environmental health hazards. .

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Greenpeace said the decision “disregards the human rights and interests of the people in Fukushima, wider Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.”. An issue that concerns environmentalists is the confusion around tritium, and the failure of data and modelling to explain the impact of organically bound tritium (OBT).

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Front And Centered

JANUARY 10, 2021

Asia Tail is the fellow and cofounder of the Y?haw? She is an artist, curator, and arts organizer based in Tacoma, Washington. Asia was the recipient of the first Vadon Foundation Native Artist Fellowship, and was named one of Seattle Magazine’s Most Influential People in 2019. Meet the Frontline Community Fellows!

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GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

A few tech companies are working to grow clean hydrogen in Europe and Asia and, lately, California. Combined with a push for decarbonization, these economics could drive demand, project energy experts. . Technology & Investment Solutions is among those doing research for California.

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

It also has resounding implications for how insects and other organisms move through the world, intermingle, and spread disease to human populations. Insects and other organisms that carry disease spend much of their lives in the same place, which is why certain diseases are endemic to specific areas.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 22, 2020

Related: Orcas threatened by highly contagious respiratory virus, CeMV “We must urgently recognize the links between the destruction of nature and human health, or we will soon see the next pandemic,” said Marco Lambertini, director general of WWF International. “We

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Today, it is focused on Latin America, tomorrow on Europe (my own backyard), Thursday on Asia and Friday on Africa. Energy poverty already has powerful implications today from a public health or productivity point of view, for example, as it may harm one’s ability to live a decent life or perform a job. Have you read?

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

The policy briefing document was released in early January by Belgium-based organization, HealthforAnimals (HfA), which represents some of the world’s biggest and best known animal pharmaceutical companies, including Zoetis, Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health, Merck Animal Health, Elanco Animal Health, IDEXX, and Ceva Santé Animale.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

The tag “forever chemicals” is clearly very appropriate for a class of synthetic compounds whose unusual molecular structure, including the carbon-fluorine (C-F) bond (considered one of the strongest found in organic chemistry), appears to offer little scope for any thermal or other degradation at all, so they endure permanently.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. With this Global North-financed fast-food expansion comes a host of environmental, social, and health concerns in regions often unprepared to field them.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 25, 2022

The company sources this food waste — which it likes to call “organic byproduct”– from food processors, retail food chains, and fruit markets. There has to be a significant health or nutrition benefit that would push this into the human market.” ” What they’re saying.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

OCTOBER 1, 2020

In this role, you will be a senior member of the team and face off to Institutional Investors globally, with primary focus on investors in the US and Asia. We are seeking a talented, highly motivated Director of Business Development to join our Investor Relations team. Our Ideal Candidate will be…. Qualifications. Bachelor’s degree required.

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Front And Centered

JANUARY 10, 2021

Asia Tail is the fellow and cofounder of the Y?haw? She is an artist, curator, and arts organizer based in Tacoma, Washington. Asia was the recipient of the first Vadon Foundation Native Artist Fellowship, and was named one of Seattle Magazine’s Most Influential People in 2019. Meet the Frontline Community Fellows!

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 3, 2019

This was due to the outbreak of African Swine Fever (ASF), which has led to the culling of over one million pigs in China, according to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). Fitch also notes that environmental, ethical, and health concerns may also be driving demand for fake meat in China. Check it out, here.

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