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Human Health

Light Pollution: What’s The Bright Idea?

The city lights have been a subject of excitement and awe for many. There have been songs written about it and descriptions that describe excitement of the city lights has engaged many people. However, not all is positive with the big city lights. It has been labeled as a form of pollution [...]

Scope of Environmental Education Grants

The last few decades have seen an unprecedented growth of industry and business all over the world, also bringing along with it a series of negative impact and fallouts for the humanity on a whole.
However, the same has also been duly recognized by such business houses and the administration alike, who now seem to be [...]

Pollution in the Bedroom

Most people spend at least a third of their lives in bed. In fact, given that one’s face is planted right in a pillow or mattress much of the time, the potential for being, quite literally, gassed in your sleep is quite high. Many of the materials that make up modern pillows, mattresses [...]

Brighter Whites and Greener Waters

For many years, the use of phosphates in laundry detergents was responsible for making clothes appear far more “white” than they really were. Large ad campaigns throughout the second half of the 20th century re-enforced the notion that whiter laundry was cleaner laundry. In fact, this supposedly cleaner laundry was impregnated with chemical [...]

How Pollution Affects Endangered Species and Bio-Diversity

Pollution doesn’t only affect human health directly. It also has a tremendous impact on the natural environment and the organisms that inhabit it. This is especially true for endangered and threatened species that rely heavily upon specialized environments or lie high upon the food chain. Whether as a consequence of habitat destruction, [...]