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How Serious Is Indoor Air Pollution

“Indoor” mainly refers to the living room. Indoor air pollution refers to indoor environmental pollution behaviors that cause harmful substances in indoor air to exceed the standard due to various reasons, thereby affecting human health. Harmful substances include formaldehyde, benzene, ammonia, radioactive radon, etc. When the pollution level is aggravated, the human body will produce …

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Indoor Cleaning for Pets

Nowadays, more and more young people choose to become a pet family and raise a cute pet to accompany them. With their cute appearance, pets have indeed brought a lot of happy time to the shoveling officers. A cute furry child can welcome you back. It sweeps away the fatigue of the day and release …

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To save California’s whales, put overlooked threats into policy

The study, published for open access this week in the journal Marine Policy, examines the main causes of death for nine whale species in the California Current Ecosystem, which stretches from British Columbia, Canada to Baja California, Mexico. The whales considered in the study include humpback, gray, blue, fin, minke, sei, sperm, North Pacific right, …

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Cleaning Every Corner

The corners around the room or the joints between the carpet and the wall are the most difficult dead corners to clean, and it is very easy to produce mildew. You can try to clean it with an old toothbrush. If you encounter more tenacious dirt, you can use a toothbrush dipped in detergent to …

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Atmospheric Thirst

The study was published in the Journal of Hydrometeorology and assessed trends in evaporative demand across the U.S. during a 40-year period from 1980-2020 using five datasets. Evaporative demand, sometimes described as “atmospheric thirst,” is a measure of the potential loss of water from the earth’s surface to the atmosphere based on variables including temperature, …

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Simulations Explaining Greenland’s Slower Summer Warming

A puzzling, decade-long slowdown in summer warming across Greenland has been explained by researchers at Hokkaido University in Japan. Their observational analysis and computer simulations revealed that changes in sea surface temperature in the tropical Pacific Ocean, thousands of miles to the south, trigger cooler summer temperatures across Greenland. The results, published in the journal …

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Earthworms

Soil is becoming increasingly contaminated by fragments of plastic — especially microplastics less than 5 mm wide — that have broken off of larger plastic waste or have been directly released from products as small particles. Previously, researchers have shown that earthworms will ingest these synthetic particles, even breaking them apart into smaller pieces. But …

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Treated Plastic Waste

What seems like a win-win for a pair of pressing environmental problems describes a Rice University lab’s newly discovered chemical technique to turn waste plastic into an effective carbon dioxide (CO2) sorbent for industry. Rice chemist James Tour and co-lead authors Rice alumnus Wala Algozeeb, graduate student Paul Savas and postdoctoral researcher Zhe Yuan reported …

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