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Higher global temperatures are projected to have a wide range of impacts with potentially severe consequences for human societies and natural ecosystems, including rising sea levels, increased rates of infectious disease, heat waves, droughts, more frequent and severe wildfires, floods, extreme weather events, melting polar and glacier ice, species extinctions, shifts in species distributions, changing […]
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Natural scientists have described global warming as perhaps the preeminent environmental risk confronting the world in the 21st century. Meanwhile, social scientists have found that people respond to hazards based on their perception of the risks. What the public perceives as a risk, why they perceive it that way and how they will subsequently behave […]
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One of the SDGs is to ensure sustainable management of sanitation and water for all. Any system through which the open space defaecation is avoided and the effective use of toilet and proposal disposal of animal and human wastes are promoted is referred to as sanitation. Moreover, the procedure of sanitation includes disposal of wastage […]
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The bottled water users may claim that the bottles can be recycled and reused, so it is alright use them, but the reality is that only two of every eight bottles end up in the recycle bin while the rest of them end up in the heaps of garbage, leaching toxicants into the ground. The […]
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Although it was known that maternal smoking had negative effects on the weight of an infant at birth, previous findings on the association between smoking and fetal and infant mortality have not been reliable. This study proved its reliability by using the largest ever database on this topic which envisaged 360,000 births and 2,500 fetal […]