Yet another reason to dispense with disposable coffee cups: nanoplastics, which are ingested when the coffee is drunk. The health implications of their ubiquity is unknown and has not yet been well-studied.
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Read more...Some Covid news, not encouraging but not yet alarming.
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Read more...A new article on how China is sticking to its zero Covid guns is revealing, and not in a good way.
Read more...Not only is permafrost releasing methane, but when it melts, it removes a key support, leading to collapsing soil and loss of lake drainage.
Read more...“It’s now or never, if we want to limit global warming to 1.5C,” IPCC Working Group III co-chair Jim Skea announced.
Read more...Why arctic greening is yet another feel-good idea that does not pan out in practice.
Read more...Carefully mapping the changing topology of the Arctic Ocean floor, scientists are racing to study submarine permafrost.
Read more...Why part of Antarctica suffered wildly out of band warmth.
Read more...Experts say institutional biosafety committees are a crucial to ensuring the safety of biomedical research. Critics say they are too opaque.
Read more...We predicted the new CDC head, Rochelle Walensky, would do badly. A New York Times story shows how she’s underperforming our low expectations
Read more...[Jaws theme song] BA.2 is coming….Maybe it won’t be that terrible, but you might get out of the water.
Read more...New information on the airborne spread of Covid.
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