Environment

Short-term exposure to air pollution can disrupt heart rate, whether someone is awake or asleep, and this effect is more pronounced in obese people.

BMC Environmental Health

Deep sea species are especially vulnerable to climate change, largely because they are used to more stable temperatures. This risk may last through the century, even if greenhouse gases are reduced.

Environment

Shifting global food production from animal-based to plant-based diets by 2050 could help limit global warming.

Increasing conserved land area from 15% to 50% of the planet could combat climate change, protect biodiversity, and benefit indigenous peoples.

Environment

Adding unmalted cereals like wheat, barley, rice, and maize to beer changes the flavor when compared to malted beers, but is more sustainable and cost-efficient.

Beverages

Ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun causes thousands of changes every day to genes inside human skin cells. Cancer risk increases as the number of DNA changes increases, but the majority of DNA changes in healthy skin cells will not cause cancer.

PLOS Genetics

Flowers are changing their petal colors in response to increasing temperatures and loss of the ozone layer, which may impact pollination by wildlife.

Environment

Across North America, climate change is intensifying pollen seasons which start earlier, last longer, and have higher pollen concentrations than 30 years ago. This can be a greater trigger for allergy and asthma symptoms.

PNAS
APnews

In the two month period around the US' withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, Twitter bots were responsible for about 25% of tweets about climate change, and were more likely than human users to tweet about climate denial research.

Systemic racism and structural inequalities reduce biodiversity in low-income and racial minority neighborhoods compared to affluent communities.

Environment