We want to introduce you to Anita. She recently completed the COVID-19 Contact Tracing course from Johns Hopkins University and began working as a contact tracer to help combat the virus. Below, she shares her experience in the course and tells us about her background and future plans. Hello Anita! Thank you so much for […]
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Meet Anita: Lifelong Learner, Contact Tracer
We want to introduce you to Anita. She recently completed the COVID-19 Contact Tracing course from Johns Hopkins University and began working as a contact tracer to help combat the virus. Below, she shares her experience in the course and tells us about her background and future plans. Hello Anita! Thank you so much for […]
The post Meet Anita: Lifelong Learner,…
Pesticides and industrial pollutants found in snow atop Arctic glaciers
The long journey of these compounds – likely originating in the U.S. and Eurasia – shows the far-reaching impacts of industrial pollution. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/pesticides-industrial-pollutants-found-atop-arctic-glaciers…
BAME scientists half as likely to get funding from UK research council
Black, Asian and ethnic minority scientists in the UK are almost half as likely to be awarded funding to research environmental science than their white peers Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2246998-bame-scientists-half-as-likely-to-get-funding-from-uk-research-council/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Plastic Tea Bags Shed Millions of Microplastic Particles Into the Cup, Study Finds
An anonymous reader quotes a report from New Scientist: Tea drinkers have been urged to avoid plastic tea bags after tests found that a single bag sheds billions of particles of microplastic into each cup. A Canadian team found that steeping a plastic tea bag at a brewing temperature of 95C releases around 11.6 billion microplastics — tiny pieces of plastic…
Evolution doesn’t proceed in a straight line
If you go by cartoons and T-shirts, you might think evolution proceeds as an orderly march toward a preordained finish line. But evolution has no endpoint in mind. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/evolution-not-straight-line…
Americans May Be Ingesting Thousands of Microplastics Every Year
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Smithsonian: A new study is shining troubling light on the quantity of microplastics Americans are consuming each year — as many as 121,000 particles, per a conservative estimate. A research team led by Kieran Cox, a PhD candidate at the University of Victoria and a former Link Fellow at the Smithsonian Institute, looked at…
Microplastics found in remote Pyrenees Mountains
Microplastic particles – too small for the human eye to see – were blown into the once pristine region by the wind, according to a new study. Source: https://earthsky.org/earth/microplastics-found-pyrenees-mountains…
Biodegradable Bags Buried for 3 Years Are Still Usable
Olivia Rosane – Are biodegradable consumer products a sham? Source: https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/04/30/biodegradable-bags-buried-for-3-years-are-still-usable/…