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06/22/2025

Micro plastics

Glass bottles can leak 50x more microplastics than plastic. Researchers trace it back to bottle caps. https://bit.ly/3HSHFDS

03/22/2025

Clean your air naturally

02/23/2025

Scientists have known for a while now that the bottled water you're drinking probably contains tiny bits of plastic, otherwise known as microplastics or nanoplastics. However, they had never known how much, what kind, and where they were coming from until early 2024.

You may have heard that your bottled water contains tiny particles known as microplastics, but it's not just the bottle itself that's to blame.

02/12/2025

You heard right! A spider plant needs to be in your future 🪴

Sources:

https://www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/1999/Spider-Plants-and-Clean-Air

https://mouldremovallondon.co.uk/plants-for-mould-prevention/

01/26/2025

01/14/2025

A new study reveals that older adults experience the least attention difficulties when home temperatures remain between 68–75 ˚F (20–24 ˚C).

01/05/2025

A long-awaited report from the Environmental Protection Agency has found that formaldehyde presents an unreasonable risk to human health.

The report was published weeks after a ProPublica investigation found that the chemical causes more cancer than any other toxic air pollutant and can trigger asthma, miscarriages and fertility problems.

12/25/2024

A team of scientists from the University of Valencia and Darwin Bioprospecting Excellence SL in Spain has profiled the ecosystems living in our microwaves, and they've found some pretty extreme things going on in there.

Once gleaming with futuristic ambition, microwave ovens are often taken for granted in our modern kitchens and offices.

11/27/2024

Tiny fragments of microplastics are making their way deep inside our bodies in concerning quantities, significantly through our food and drink.

11/22/2024

Plumbed drinking water in developed countries is pretty clean, but invisible contaminants can still lurk.

Plumbed drinking water in developed countries is pretty clean, but invisible contaminants can still lurk. One mysterious “phantom chemical” has haunted drinking water for decades, and now researchers have identified it – and found it’s completely new to science.