The potential of virtual healthcare technologies to reduce healthcare services' carbon footprint
The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the potential to reduce our carbon footprint especially by reducing travel.
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Environmental
A collection of 1043 articles
Exposure Characteristics and Cumulative Risk Assessment of Bisphenol A and Its Substitutes: The Taiwan Environmental Survey for Toxicants (TEST) 2013
Ever since the use of bisphenol A (BPA) has been restricted, concerns have been raised regarding the use of its substitutes, such as bisphenol S (BPS) and bisphenol F (BPF).
On proposing relational environmental metaphors to stimulate engagement and foster well-being in the midst of climate change
Messages regarding climate change that are intended to stimulate responsible engagement can impact our mental health in both positive and negative ways, which in turn can increase or limit the potential engagement being sought through those very messages. Increasingly alarmist environmental metaphors are being brought into question due to their
A LARGE AND FEASIBLE NATIONAL SURVEY REPRESENTATIVE OF POPULATION EXPOSURE TO OUTDOOR GAMMA RADIATION IN URBAN AREAS
Background: Although data on outdoor gamma radiation are available for many countries, they have generally been obtained with measurements performed in undisturbed environments instead of in urban areas where most of the population lives. Only one large national survey, with on-site measurements in urban areas, has been found worldwide, probably
Empower ing Pro-Environmental Behavior in Tourists through Digital Media: The Influence of Eco-Guilt and Empathy with Nature
In the digital economy era, leveraging digital media to foster tourists’ pro-environmental behavioral intention (TPEBI) has become crucial in the field of sustainable tourism.
No Smoke Without Fire: The Green King (Part 5)
Lighting the fire once again, Brian Gerrish and Debi Evans go where angels fear to tread, and continue their voyage of discovery to find out who Charles III really is and who keeps close company with our sustainable King. We shine a light on the reality and extent of the
Discovering the sensory, emotional, and interactive experiences of a place
This article proposes a data collection technique for describing experiences of a built environment.
Integrated metabolomic and metagenomic strategies shed light on interactions among planting environments, rhizosphere microbiota, and metabolites of tobacco in Yunnan, China
Changes in climatic factors and rhizosphere microbiota led plants to adjust their metabolic strategies for survival under adverse environmental conditions.
Inverting social innovation to transform health system responses to climate change adaptation and mitigation in the global south
Systems thinking is aimed at understanding and solving complex problems that cut across sectors, an approach that requires accurate, timely, and multisectoral data.
Does the level of burnout differ between occupational groups in Lithuania?
Background: The strain on workers of the healthcare system and education sector increased psychological distress and burnout.
Coal mining environment causes adverse effects on workers
Background: The objective of this study is to study the adverse effects of coal mining environment on workers to discover early effective biomarkers.
“Climate change” profiteering from the Amazon versus the needs of the population causes tensions in Guyana and Brazil
As is a common theme behind the “climate change” agenda, local and indigenous people suffer at the hands of those who seek to capitalise on the natural world and profit from it.
The Story of Rachel Carson: How Her Love for Nature Changed the Way Humans View the Environment
One of the most celebrated American writers of her time, Rachel Carson, achieved the impossible: convincing a society intent on mastering and controlling nature that we, as humans, must view ourselves as being part of nature rather than separate from it.
Climate-Con and the Media-Censorship Complex – Part 1
The gauntlet has been cast by the media-censorship complex.
This Easter in the New Normal
Our successor to This Week in the Guardian, This Week in the New Normal is our weekly chart of the progress of autocracy, authoritarianism and economic restructuring around the world.
1. Climate Change is altering time!!!
A new study published this week caused multiple papers to run headlines along these