Year: 2019
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Vinyl Glove: States Ban Finds Toxic Chemicals
We must ban vinyl gloves. Harmful plasticizer chemicals have been detected in some food service vinyl gloves. These plastics can leach into food upon contact. Thereby harming children and pregnant women which are most vulnerable. Maine has now banned this plastic! PVC in Vinyl Gloves An alarming new report finds that disposable PVC food-handling vinyl…
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Threats to the Carbon-Storing Capacity of the Amazon Rainforest
CORVALLIS, Ore. – The vast forests of the Amazon rainforest stores enormous amounts of carbon. All that help moderate the Earth’s temperature. However, a study shows that over-hunting in the Amazon rainforest is threatening its carbon-storing capacity. There’s a wide-scale reduction of large fruit-eating mammals such as primates and tapirs. Subsequently, the disbursement of seeds…
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Understanding Climate Change on Biodiversity Ecosystems
The U.S. Climate Change Science Program Synthesis and Assessment Product 4.3 is more than overwhelming news. Biodiversity is also a fundamental building block of the services that ecosystems deliver to human societies. Intrinsically important because of its contribution to the functioning of ecosystems. Essentially biodiversity. So the variation of life at the genetic, species and ecosystem…
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Let’s Really Talk about Our Arctic Melting!
Arctic sea ice levels plus permafrost issues. All updated by Bai and Wang. As well as according to NCA 2014 holy sea levels. I mean and updated by Bai and Wang, rising temperatures are reducing ice cover on land. That’s as well as permafrost and ice at lakes. Moreover and changes in the sea. Most noteworthy,…
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Australian Wildfires plus Temperatures are No Joke!
So Australian residents are really bracing through severe fires across NSW, Victoria and Tasmania. As the Guardian reports, all of Australia’s mainland states, and the Northern Territory, had areas that reached more than 40C on Wednesday. That’s as residents were warned it was too late to leave as two serious bushfires hit areas of South…
