Category: Biodiversity / Biodevastation

E-cigarettes can quickly lodge toxic metals deep into the lungs, where they may damage tissue, according to new research that provides detailed evidence about risks of vaping. Even short-term exposure produces a measurable buildup of toxic metals in lung tissue, potentially increasing the risk of chronic lung problems, cancer, cardiovascular disease, and other conditions.

Trees are central to mitigating the various consequences of rising temperatures and heatwaves. Various scientific studies show the impact of trees and parks on temperatures in their vicinity. In 2024, researchers Harini Nagendra and Seema Mundoli wrote in Article 14 that their research revealed stark differences between roads lined with trees and those without. Across…

Jim Pattiz examines the Fix Our Forests Act and argues that the legislation would significantly expand federal authority for large-scale logging across U.S. national forests. The article details proposed changes to environmental review, endangered species protections, judicial oversight, and forest management rules, while placing them in the context of recent executive actions and timber production…

Cuban scientists are known for ingenuity in the face of adversity. Over the years, as U.S. sanctions coupled with government mismanagement worsened the island’s economic woes, Kalet León Monzón and his colleagues at the Center of Molecular Immunology (CIM) in Havana continued to develop and produce monoclonal antibodies and recombinant proteins, resorting to clever workarounds…

Indian cities are entering a new phase of climate stress where extreme heat is increasingly combined with rising humidity, creating dangerous “heat index” conditions. This article examines how urban expansion, concrete-heavy infrastructure, loss of water bodies, waste burning, vehicular emissions, and weak planning are intensifying heat stress in cities like Delhi, Hyderabad, and Ahmedabad. It…

Behind the Dominican Republic’s assault on Haitian water sovereignty stands an Israeli Occupation apparatus – arming border forces, training police, and designing a thirty-year plan to control their island’s water supply.

As of April 28th, the U.S. Drought Monitor confirmed much of the country in various stages of drought with some regions in serious condition. The Plains States and entire Southeast are trapped in various stages of unending drought. The West is another story altogether, experiencing lost snowpack like never before in history.

Why, as neoliberalism has intensified wealth extraction to levels unseen in modern history, have so many working people turned not against those extracting from them, but toward political movements that promise to accelerate the very processes destroying them?

A new study finds that toxic dust from the shrinking Salton Sea is impairing lung growth in children living nearby. As water levels decline due to drought, agricultural diversion, and climate pressures, exposed lakebed releases dust laden with chemicals and metals. Researchers tracking over 700 children report reduced lung function and higher respiratory symptoms, with…