Environment
Disappearing Beaches: Climate Change Could Wipe Out Half of the World’s Sandy Shorelines
As global temperatures continue to rise, driven by emissions of heat-trapping greenhouse gases, melting ice will raise sea levels and extreme weather ...
Heat Stress May Affect More Than 1.2 Billion People Annually By 2100
Heat stress from extreme heat and humidity will annually affect areas now home to 1.2 billion people by 2100, assuming current greenhouse gas emission...
‘Dead on Arrival’: Environmentalists React as Us Panel Approves Pipeline, Natural Gas Terminal in Oregon
A US regulatory agency on Thursday approved a controversial natural gas pipeline and marine export terminal project in Oregon, with one member say...
Financial Fallout from Coronavirus Could Devastate the Fracking and Plastics Industries
As the U.S. braces for the social and financial impact of the novel coronavirus pandemic, some financial analysts predict that two markets will be amo...
OSHA Issues Respiratory Fit Guidance During COVID-19 Outbreak
New temporary guidance has been issued to ensure healthcare workers have adequate access to N95 respiratory protection. The mass purchasing of respir...
Happier Meals? Mcdonald’s to Scrap Plastic Toys
Every McDonalds Happy Meal in the UK and Ireland will include either a soft toy, paper-based toy or book from 2021, the fast-food chain announced yest...
World ‘Way Off Track’ on Climate Targets, UN Experts Warn After Five Hottest Years on Record
The world is “way off track” from meeting targets to limit global warming as the signs of a climate emergency grow more damaging, the Unit...
‘Worst Case Scenario’: Polar Ice Caps and Greenland Ice Sheet Melting Six Times Faster Than in 1990s
The polar ice caps and the Greenland ice sheet are melting six times faster than they were in the 1990s, according to the most complete picture of po...
Coronavirus Causes Air Pollution Over Northern Italy to Plummet as Factories Close and Travel Halted
Air pollution over northern Italy has fallen sharply after the coronavirus forced the country into a nationwide lockdown, satellite imagery has reveal...
Eleanor Nwadinobi, Fighting for Nigerian Women’s Rights to Health and Protection
Eleanor Nwadinobi is a Nigerian medical doctor, mother of four children and four-times grandmother. An influential woman in Nigeria, she is curr...
EPA Outlines Civil Inspection Procedures in New Rule
The EPA has promulgated a final rule listing the general procedures (that is, procedures that are applicable under all federal statutes implemented by...
OSHA’s Combustible Dust Program: Where are We Today?
OSHA put its Combustible Dust National Emphasis Program into place over 10 years ago. Since then, new NFPA standards on combustible dust have been iss...