Sioux Falls, SD—New research co-authored by OmegaQuant's William S. Harris, Ph.D., showed that women who had a higher Omega-3 Index were more protected from the adverse effects on the brain from air pollution than those with a lower Omega-3 Index. In the study, which was published in Neurology, Omega-3 Index...
Lockdown due to COVID-19 has dropped greenhouse gas emissions off a cliff, giving many cause to hope for a silver lining to the pandemic. However, experts note that emissions aren’t dropping as far as they need to, and that other pollutants are popping up. The good news: Two new studies...
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) led a study measuring pollutants that found that personal care products emit harmful chemical vapors in enormous quantities, according to the NOAA's website. Decamethylcyclopentasiloxane, or D5 Siloxane, is added to personal care products to give them a smooth, silky feeling. It’s in a...
According to the BBC, the World Health Organization is launching an investigation into the potential risks of consuming plastics that contaminate drinking water after a report from Orb Media found that bottles of drinking water were contaminated with particles of plastic. Their study included 250 bottles across 11 brands bought...
Large retail chains are discovering that reducing greenhouse gases is easier said than done, reports NPR. Specifically Walmart, which unveiled Project Gigaton, a plan to reduce its emissions of greenhouse gases by a billion tons of carbon between now and 2030 — almost as much carbon that is released from...
Washington, D.C. — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) reported that the latest dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico measures 8,776 square miles, about an area the size of New Jersey, making it the largest dead zone since mapping began in 1985. A dead zone is a an...
As someone often suffering from the ill effects of toxic indoor air quality, I have become a fresh air enthusiast. After a year of inhaling what seemed to be indoor poison coming from my heating and cooling vents, I headed to the mountains for a large dose of fresh air.
Richmond, BC, Canada - The organic breakfast and snack food production business, Nature’s Path Foods, has received a Zero Waste Certification for its third facility in Sussex, Wisconsin. Green Business Certification Inc. (GBCI) has recognized the sustainability efforts of Nature’s Path and have also given Zero Waste Certifications to its...
A new study published in the Journal of Public Analysis and Management has found evidence that prenatal exposure to emissions from a Pennsylvania Power Plant in a large region of New Jersey downwind from the plant had an impact on the birth weight of infants. Researchers studied singleton births between...
Polluting the shores of all five continents as well as lakes and rivers around the globe, microplastics are tiny pieces of debris formed from the degradation of plastic. Scientists have expressed increasing concern over the potential threat to aquatic systems and public health by the accumulation of these microparticles. Here,...
