Vitskapsdama

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Is green tea a fad or a real health boost?
medicalxpress.com - Dennis Thompson
(HealthDay)—Green tea is a popular health trend, with many people sipping in hopes of deriving benefits from the brew. There's nothing wrong with …
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Plastic
Ocean Plastic Is Now Forming Crusts On Rocky Shores
Forbes - Priya Shukla
I write about the ocean, climate change, and the future of our planet. Plastic pollution in the ocean is incredibly widespread. Globally production of plastic has ramped up in recent decades, with 320
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Helium
No more squeaky voices: We're running out of helium
bigthink.com - Matt Davis
• Although it's commonly used to make balloons float, helium is actually a precious, non-renewable resource. • Without helium, a great deal of scientific …
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Canadian News
Canada becomes first G7 country to ban shark fin imports
The Guardian - Leyland Cecco in Toronto
It was on a family visit to Hong Kong that Kristyn Wong-Tam noticed her uncle – a well-regarded chef – was the only person at the table not touching a bowl of shark fin soup. When he explained how fins
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The Brain
A scientific study just proved that ‘brain supplements’ are completely useless.
good.is - Steven DeKosky
Americans and others around the world have turned increasingly to dietary supplements in order to maintain or preserve their brain health.A recent …
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Filmmaking
Thousands petition Netflix to cancel Amazon Prime's Good Omens
The Guardian - Alison Flood
More than 20,000 Christians have signed a petition calling for the cancellation of Good Omens, the television series adapted from Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman’s 1990 fantasy novel – unfortunately addressing
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World News
Boaty McBoatface, Internet-Adored Sub, Makes Deep-Sea Discovery On Climate Change
NPR - Merrit Kennedy
Remember Boaty McBoatface? In the years since the naming snafu over a research vessel grabbed international headlines, Boaty has been off gathering crucial deep-sea data on the effects of climate change.
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Technology
Accidental cat filter appears on Pakistan official's briefing
The Guardian - Luke Harding
As a veteran journalist Shaukat Yousafzai was used to press conferences. He had also served as regional health minister, representative of the ruling Tehreek-e-Insaf party, and adviser to Pakistan’s prime
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Plastic
19 genius inventions that can stop us from using so much plastic
USA TODAY Money - Hristina Byrnes
Plastic was considered one of the greatest inventions of the 20th century. Available from the early 1900s, plastic was an absolute hit by the 1960s. It’s hard to imagine what the modern world would look
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Plastic
How you're recycling plastic wrong, from coffee cups to toothpaste
The Guardian - Charlotte Simmonds
It’s a familiar scene: you stand at the bin, trash in hand, and wonder: “Can I recycle this?” We tend to throw it in the recycling bin anyway, in the hope that some unknown person, somewhere else, will
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Permafrost
The poisons released by melting Arctic ice
BBC Future - Tim Smedley
Pollution, anthrax - even nuclear waste - could be released by global warming In 2012, Sue Natali arrived in Duvanny Yar, Siberia, for the first time. Then a postdoctoral research fellow studying the of
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Off-grid
The family-of-four living off grid
BBC News - Michael Cowan
The government proposes reducing UK greenhouse gas emissions to almost zero by 2050, under a new plan to tackle climate change. The Victoria Derbyshire programme met a family who live self sufficiently
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Liberal View
Scientists Have More Bad News About the Oceans. They Found It by Looking in the Past.
motherjones.com
This story was originally published by Wired and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Plankton don’t get nearly the respect they …
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Plastic
4ocean, the ocean cleanup company that's removed 4.7 million pounds of trash
CBS News
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced plans this week to eliminate single-use plastics nationwide as early as 2021, the latest move in a …
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Body Language
How to Practice Active Listening (A Step-By-Step Guide)
lifehack.org - Mat Apodaca
I am a huge proponent of the power of communication. Effective communication can make nearly every phase of your life better. Strong communication …
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Liberal View
Scared About City Chemicals? Don’t Be. I Did Every Test in the Book.
motherjones.com
This reporter was tested for over 1,530 chemicals to find out if she was toxic. This story was originally published by the Guardian and is shared here …
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World News
Oh Dear: Photos Show What Humans Have Done To The Planet
NPR - Jonathan Lambert
Humans have made an indelible mark on the planet. Since the mid-20th century, we've accelerated the digging of mines, construction of dams, expansion of cities and clearing of forests for agriculture activity
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Opinion (UK)
We must transform our lives and values to save this burning planet
The Guardian - Susanna Rustin
The case for action to tackle the climate emergency, on a scale far beyond anything that has yet been attempted, is increasingly widely understood. Almost three decades after the first UN climate treaty
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Particles
These gorgeous photos of Saturn’s rings are Cassini’s 'Grand Finale'
Popular Science - Sara Chodosh
NASA is collecting new info about the particles orbiting the gas giant As unmanned spacecraft Cassini gets closer to its final resting place, it's getting closer than ever to the massive rings that orbit
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Plastic
First UK Supermarket Chain to Eliminate Plastic From Produce Will Save 1,300 Tons of Plastic From Landfill
goodnewsnetwork.org - Good News Network
This week the third largest chain of supermarkets in the United Kingdom has committed to cutting a further 1,284 tons of plastic from their supply …
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World News
World’s fattest parrot, the endangered kākāpō, could be wiped out by fungal infection
The Guardian - Charles Anderson in Nelson
The world’s fattest parrot is facing an existential threat in the form of a dangerous fungal infection which has already endangered a fifth of its species. Seven of New Zealand’s native kākāpō have died
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Asteroids
Weird 'Anomaly' at the Moon's South Pole May Be a Metal Asteroid's Grave
space.com - Meghan Bartels
There's something very weird, and very dense, under the surface of the moon's South Pole-Aitken basin, new research suggests. That unexpectedly …
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Science
Ancient asteroid crater located off coast of Scotland
The Guardian - Ian Sample Science editor
The location of an ancient impact crater made by the biggest asteroid ever to hit Britain has been traced to a spot under the sea between mainland Scotland and the Outer Hebrides. Researchers at Oxford
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Rare Earth
Rare earth elements: Not so rare after all - 60 Minutes
CBS News - Kevin Livelli
This blog post by 60 Minutes' Kevin Livelli, one of the producers who reported on rare earth elements this week, was originally published on March …
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Plastic
Microplastic Is Ruining the Beauty of Monterey Bay
motherjones.com
In some places, microplastic is swirling in concentrations greater than at the surface of the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch. This story was …
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The Arctic
Disappearing sea ice is changing the whole ecosystem of the Arctic Ocean
rawstory.com - The Conversation
I drafted this while looking north over the frozen Lincoln Sea, at the northernmost tip of Ellesmere Island in Canada. I was at Alert, a Canadian …
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Glaciers
UK village considers the unfathomable: tearing itself down before nature does
CNN - Story by Thomas Page; video by Phil Black, Ingrid Formanek, Luis Graham-Yool and Lewis Whyld, CNN
(CNN) — Lee Bamber is standing in his garden on a gray day in Fairbourne, northwest Wales. The sea is within earshot -- in fact, it's just on the other side of a wall separating the Irish Sea from his
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Child Labor
Here's how much a chocolate bar made without child labor would cost
Popular Science - Donavyn Coffey
A new study lifts the wrapper on the cocoa industry. In Ghana or Côte d'Ivoire, the heart of cocoa country, 2 million kids do hazardous work to sustain the chocolate industry, according to the U.S. Department
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Coffee
Supermarkets in Asia are Now Using Banana Leaves Instead of Plastic Packaging
nextshark.com - Ryan General··6 min read
Supermarkets in Vietnam have adopted an initiative from Thailand that makes use of banana leaves instead of plastic as a packaging …
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Biodegradation
How to make biodegradable 'plastic' from cactus juice
BBC News
This Mexican researcher has discovered a way to turn cactus leaves into a material with similar properties to plastic. A film by Tom Heyden for People Fixing the World.