The five most contaminated places on a plane that are best not to touch

For its Marketplace program, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation examined over 100 samples taken from aircraft on 18 flights by three airlines. Samples were taken from seat belts, folding tables, head restraints, toilet handles, and seat-back pockets. These are the surfaces that we inevitably touch ...

In Montana, a bridge collapsed when a train passed over it: dangerous substances poured into the river

On June 24, a train derailed on a railway bridge crossing the Yellowstone River in Stillwater County, Montana. The bridge collapsed, several railway cars ended up in the river. The incident is fraught with a spill of hazardous substances, according to KTVQ. In Stillwater County, Yellowstone County Water Stations is introducing…

You can not drink, fish and even swim: almost half of the water bodies in the United States are heavily polluted

The Clean Water Act, passed 50 years ago, has not achieved its goals, according to a new analysis. Nearly half of the rivers and streams in the US are considered too polluted to meet quality standards for swimming, recreation, fish consumption, or use as sources of drinking…

The man of the plastic age: how people destroy themselves and the Earth

The entire planet is teeming with microplastics. But humanity still knows very little about the risks it poses to living beings. Therefore, scientists decided to explore global questions that have so far remained unanswered. The BBC writes about it. Postgraduate researcher from the London…

Modern children consume a catastrophic amount of microplastics: research

Many microplastics have been found in children's feces, Wired reports, based on a recent study. Whenever a plastic bag or bottle decomposes, it disintegrates into smaller and smaller pieces that make their way into the nooks and crannies of the environment. When you wash ...

Drinking water in the USA is contaminated with toxic substances at a faster rate than previously thought

Tap water in the United States is becoming contaminated with toxic fluoride chemicals at a higher rate than previously thought, according to a new report. Fox News writes about this. "It is virtually impossible to avoid contaminated drinking water from these chemicals," said David Andrews, senior scientist...

The dirtiest places at the airport: scientists have figured out what is best not to touch

A recently published study has shown that there is no need to touch objects in the airport - these objects are dirtier than a toilet. The only problem is that avoiding contact with them is not so easy. The airport only seems to be a clean place, but the reality is much worse, the researchers found out that there are ...

US leads on microplastic contamination of tap water

Researchers who tested tap drinking water found that 83% of the samples were contaminated with microscopic plastic fibers. The United States had the highest pollution rate at 94%. In addition, contaminated tap water was sampled from the Congress building, the headquarters of the Environmental Protection Agency ...

Los Angeles tops the list of cities with the most polluted air

The air in Los Angeles was the most polluted of any city in America. This is stated in the report of the American Lung Association. According to the report, 166 million Americans, or 52,1 percent of people living in the US, live in counties with unhealthy levels of air pollution. Almost 20 million people ...

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