environment and health
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- March 24, 2024
Studies have long shown that nature has many benefits that affect our physical and mental health. Now a new Israeli study has found that high exposure to a green environment may reduce the chance of contracting different types of cancer
- Avi Blizovsky
- March 22, 2024
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Dutch researchers found that this process happens all the time and damages all genes, but the longer the genes, the more likely they are to be damaged because they have more sites. Especially the great damage is to nerve cells due to their inability to regenerate
- Avi Blizovsky
- February 20, 2024
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This is according to a report published in recent days by the International Journalism Institute. Environmental reporters are exposed to physical and verbal threats, difficulties in accessing information and financial pressure, sometimes while hiding from the eyes of the authorities and even with their encouragement
- Avi Blizovsky
- February 13, 2024
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A one degree Celsius increase in global average temperature due to the man-made climate crisis could shorten life expectancy by about 5 months, with women and residents of developing countries disproportionately affected
- The Voice of Science website - the Israel National Science Foundation
- February 13, 2024
Researchers examined the tourist experience in Jerusalem and discovered the moments when the emotional arousal of visitors increases - for better or for worse
- Science site The Conversation
- May 22, 2023
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Studies conducted in Canada found that some of these products contain per- and polyfluoroalkyls (PFAS), some of which are prohibited for marketing, in concentrations significantly higher than the threshold proposed in the standards. Frequent use of these products corresponds to high concentrations of these substances in the body and in breast milk
- Dr. Moshe Nahamani
- March 16, 2023
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For the past hundred years, the chemical trichloroethylene [TCE] has been used in decaffeinated coffee, metal cleaners, and dry-cleaned clothes. The substance itself is known to be a carcinogen, it is associated with miscarriages, congenital heart disease and a fivefold increase in the incidence of Parkinson's disease
- Avi Blizovsky
- February 12, 2023
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On the day we go to the "Mitzpe Ha'Ba'ani", we will enlist in the "Climate Corps" and obey the safety instructions of the "Salt Brigade": a unique installation offers to think about the disturbing fate of the Dead Sea through an interactive journey between sites in the area's fictional future
- Avi Blizovsky
- January 27, 2023
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Soroka Hospital, the MDA Blood Services, the National Public Health Laboratory and Ben Gurion University are partners in the study, funded by the Ministry of Environmental Protection * The connection to industry comes from the location of the subjects in relation to polluting industrial plants and mining, but the authors of the study want to conduct a more direct examination
- The Hebrew University
- November 30, 2022
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In the most comprehensive study conducted on the subject, it was found that sperm quality deteriorates over the years in men all over the world, including in Africa, Latin America and Asia, and that the rate of decline even increases in the 21st century * "This study is a wake-up call for researchers, policy makers, health authorities and the public throughout the world and in Israel, which requires consideration and taking actions to correct the existing situation"
- Avi Blizovsky
- October 26, 2022
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The Ministry of Environmental Protection publishes for public comment the draft Israeli green taxonomy, for classifying economic activities according to their impact on environmental goals; The Israeli taxonomy will make it possible to define environmental and climatic effects of economic activities, will allow positive investments for the environment and climate and will prevent greening
- Avi Blizovsky
- October 3, 2022
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In preparation for a recommendation to the government on a policy to stabilize the level of the Dead Sea: the Minister of Environmental Protection, Tamar Zandberg, led a multi-participant tour of the Dead Sea region to examine the public comments received on the draft policy document for the future of the Dead Sea published by the ministry
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- September 9, 2022
A new Canadian study reveals a significant link between air pollution and autoimmune diseases. Could it be that our immune system reacts even before us to the changing world outside?
- Avi Blizovsky
- August 1, 2022
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A new study supported and funded by the Ministry of Environmental Protection and carried out by researchers from the Hebrew University, Hadassah, the Technion, the Medical Corps and the National Center for Disease Control of the Ministry of Health, provides evidence that environmental exposure to industrial air pollution in the Haifa Bay at a young age is associated with cancer incidence between 1967 and 2012.
- Avi Blizovsky
- August 1, 2022
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A study was published today that unequivocally states that environmental exposure to industrial air pollution in the Haifa Bay at a young age is associated with cancer incidence between the years 1967 and 2012. It is interesting why this research was not done for decades, even though the figure was known, among other things thanks to the exposures of the writer of these lines
- Dr. Asaf Rosenthal
- May 3, 2022
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- Haifa University
- February 24, 2022
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"Wherever there are trees, fires are likely to occur," says Prof. Leah Wittenberg from the University of Haifa, the Israeli representative on the UN team of experts that compiled the report * Even the arctic regions are no longer immune
- The science service
- December 2, 2021
The earliest documentation of the use of paint for wall decoration is from 17,000-40,000 years ago, for which an emulsion was used that contained a pigment mixed with a liquid medium. Today's paints voluntarily stopped using lead until 1979 when it became a mandatory standard
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- July 12, 2021
Besides the enormous environmental damage, it turns out that the smoke from the fires can be a carrier of disease-causing viruses and bacteria over a long distance
- Avi Blizovsky
- June 20, 2021
- 6 תגובות
New estimates indicate that the regions of Central America, South America and Southeast Asia are the most affected
- The science service
- February 8, 2021
- 14 תגובות
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- December 14, 2020
So far, scientific reports have been published that plastic parts that reach the natural environment cause the death of many animals, especially seabirds, turtles and marine mammals). Now it turns out that they also have health damage
- The science service
- October 9, 2020
- Angle - a news agency for science and the environment
- August 29, 2020
At the end of May, a red spill was reported in the banks of the Ambranaya River that spilled into Lake Pyasino, near the city of Norilsk in northern Siberia, Russia. About 20 thousand tons of oils (mainly diesel fuel) leaked from a fuel storage tank into the tributaries of the river. According to the reports, the leak occurred as a result of the thawing of "permafrost" - which caused the ground to sink and become unstable
- Dr. Asaf Rosenthal
- June 9, 2020
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