A deep orange-brown sun shined through hazy skies as smoke from Canadian wildfires spread across North America and beyond, choking millions of people and triggering severe air quality alerts.. - Wildfire smoke is more toxic than other types of smoke and can be more dangerous to human health than other sources of air pollution, for example.
It's cheap, recycled, and has centuries of tradition: "shimogoe" or "fertiliser from a person's bottom" is finding new favour in Japan as Ukraine's war hikes the price of chemical alternatives.. He started using shimogoe last year, "because I wanted to cut costs, and for the social good" of recycling waste.
It's cheap, recycled, and has centuries of tradition: "shimogoe" or "fertiliser from a person's bottom" is finding new favour in Japan as Ukraine's war hikes the price of chemical alternatives.. He started using shimogoe last year, "because I wanted to cut costs, and for the social good" of recycling waste.
For many Canadian parents, the start of the summer holidays is turning into a headache, as thick wildfire smoke forces them to check air quality indices the same way they might normally check the weather forecast.. There could be many more days like these throughout the summer -- authorities have warned that Canada's peak wildfire season is only just beginning, after an early start.
Extreme temperatures have combined with habitual smog in Houston for more than two weeks, and Erandi Trevino feels the hazardous combination in her body.. I feel it in my nostrils," Trevino says.
Environmental activist Greta Thunberg on Thursday denounced the ecological havoc caused by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the lack of international reaction to the disaster.. Zelensky has criticised what he says is the lack of an adequate international response to the disaster.
More than 2,000 people have suffered heat stress during the hajj pilgrimage, Saudi officials said Thursday, after temperatures soared to 48 degrees Celsius (118 degrees Fahrenheit) during the annual rites.. Maximum summer temperatures of 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) could become an annual occurrence by the end of the century, experts say. bur/ho/th/hkb/ami
Dutch police arrested seven people and two officers were injured on Thursday as angry farmers renewed their protest campaign against the government's environmental plans.. Two officers suffered minor injuries during an arrest," police said on Twitter.
A ranger at a DR Congo wildlife reserve was killed and a second wounded when their team came under attack near an illegal mine, the park said on Thursday.. A 26-year-old guard died "following an attack carried out by armed men against a team of eco-rangers who were on a surveillance missions near the 'Mondial', an illegal mining area" in the centre of the park, the RFO said in a statement.
Scientists have discovered a genetic variant linked with multiple sclerosis becoming more debilitating over time, in research hailed as a first step towards a new drug.. "It's the first step towards treatments that work in a different way," she said, emphasising that any such drug was a long way from being available.
