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Plastic pollution is one of the fastest growing environmental threats. Microplastics and nanoplastic are everywhere: in our drinking water, the air we breathe and even ours brains. Beizhan Yan, an environmental geochemist at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, which is part of the Columbia climate school, has presented new methods to detect and analyze these particles…

Abstract He has probably heard that the ocean is in trouble. One reason is that we are catching too many fish, which is bad for fish and the environment. But there is a great solution to that problem called Protected Marine Areas (MPA). These are special areas in the ocean where fishing is limited. This…

You could be 45 on paper but 60 in your kidneys. Turns out, your organs have birthdays of their own — and how well they’re faring may set the pace for your health, researchers report July 9 in Nature Medicine. Using data from nearly 45,000 people, scientists developed a blood-based test to estimate the biological…

NASA’s recent announcement brought millions of people around the world relief: the land is no longer in danger of being attacked by Asteroid 2024 years 4. This massive space rock, which once represented a serious threat, will pass safely for the earth in 2032. However, the situation is still far from establishing. Although the earth…