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Global vision is declining
Environment

Global vision is declining

In many areas of the world, the foresight in the days of cloudiness has decreased since the 1970s due to the increase of environmental pollutants.

December 16, 2018
Earth's stealth equator
Environment

Earth's stealth equator

British scientists claim that the atmosphere of the northern and southern hemispheres is separated by a huge chemical band in the western Pacific.

December 16, 2018
Hanoi: Winter, the most polluted season
Environment

Hanoi: Winter, the most polluted season

Hanoi in the east, along the main traffic routes, each hour, has more than 0.3 milligrams of PM10 dust (dust less than 10 microns in size) crawling into people's lungs.…

December 16, 2018
Fine dust in the air: Very worrying!
Environment

Fine dust in the air: Very worrying!

30-40% of pollutant emissions are caused by traffic, 20% is from burning garbage and straw. The rest is due to cooking food and industrial activities. The most concerned…

December 16, 2018
Hanoi: Polluted winter air is higher than summer
Environment

Hanoi: Polluted winter air is higher than summer

This statement of Professor Pham Duy Hien, former Director of Da Lat Nuclear Institute also affirmed: the highest level of air pollution is in December, January, the low…

December 16, 2018
Detecting pollution dust attacking the brain
Medicine - Health

Detecting pollution dust attacking the brain

Researchers have recently discovered tiny pollutant molecules inside brain tissue samples, suggesting that dust pollution not only attacks the lungs but also the nervous…

December 15, 2018
Smoke incense causes pneumonia
Medicine - Health

Smoke incense causes pneumonia

In many previous works, Yeatts and his colleagues had research related to incense smoke and some health problems including eyes, nose, throat, skin irritation, respirato…

December 14, 2018
Contaminants cause children to grow slowly
Medicine - Health

Contaminants cause children to grow slowly

A study showed that Russian children living in high-contaminant environments are of smaller stature than their peers in a healthy environment.

December 14, 2018
The danger from the parking lot
Medicine - Health

The danger from the parking lot

Lack of ventilation, non-ventilation systems, parking tunnels are easy to accumulate pollutants, radon gas ...

December 14, 2018