Laws and regulations to protect people from getting sick from air pollution have also been very good for birds. New research shows that if the United States had not introduced stricter laws against air pollution, there would have been 1.5 billion fewer birds in the...
About a month ago, the Swedish government’s research grants were presented. Extra money is needed in research due to the pandemic. Matilda Ernkrans (S) Minister for Higher Education and Research told Forskning & Framsteg:βWe invest billions in research and...
Today’s atomic clocks are so accurate that if they were built at the birth of the universe 13.8 billion years ago, they would only have lasted half a second today . But even the enormous precision is not enough for a research team from MIT that has now developed...
Nature and the Great Outdoors is back on the map! While spending much of our time isolated indoors this last year, nature took on significance. People found both refuge and entertainment outdoors, in nature. In America, the passage of the Great American Outdoors Act...
Every year the UN holds a contest where ambitious, brilliant and brave environmentalists from the age 18 to 30 can enter. This year seven Young Champions of the Earth was selected – one from each region of the globe. How does the contest work? In short, everyone...
Poor air quality is a major problem around the world. In Europe alone, more than 400,000 people die prematurely due to air pollution. But the development is going in the right direction and the trend is very promising.A report by the European Environment Agency, EEA,...