Where did the ingredients in that sandwich come from? Our global nutrient tracker tells a complex story
Have you ever looked down at your breakfast, lunch or dinner and considered where the ingredients traveled from to reach your plate?
Have you ever looked down at your breakfast, lunch or dinner and considered where the ingredients traveled from to reach your plate?
Analytical Chemistry
Feb 5, 2024
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An international study led by scientists at the Yale School of Public Health warns that ozone-related deaths will rise significantly in many parts of the world over the next two decades unless current climate and air quality ...
Earth Sciences
Jan 25, 2024
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Over the last century, die-offs of animal populations, known as mass mortality events (MMEs), have increased in frequency and magnitude. The scale of these events can be staggering: billions of dead fish, hundreds of thousands ...
Ecology
Jan 23, 2024
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Sharks have persisted as powerful ocean predators for more than 400 million years. They survived five mass extinctions, diversifying into an amazing variety of forms and lifestyles. But this ancient lineage is now among the ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 11, 2024
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Frequent visits to oil palm plantations are leading to a sharp increase in mortality rates among infant southern pig-tailed macaques (Macaca nemestrina) in the wild, according to a new study published in Current Biology. ...
Plants & Animals
Jan 8, 2024
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It has become an article of faith among many economists that China's pro-market reforms of the 1980s and 1990s ushered in a sustained reduction in poverty.
Economics & Business
Jan 8, 2024
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On the first day of 2024, a 7.5 magnitude earthquake struck Japan, killing at least 57 people and destroying thousands of homes.
Earth Sciences
Jan 3, 2024
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A new study has been published as part of the TRUUD project, a research project led by the University of Bristol that aims to reduce non-communicable disease (such as cancers, diabetes, obesity, mental ill-health and respiratory ...
Environment
Dec 7, 2023
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A new study from researchers at UC San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography and UC San Francisco estimates 152,753 excess infant deaths were attributable to living in flood-prone areas in Bangladesh over the past 30 ...
Environment
Dec 5, 2023
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Vampire bats may soon take up residence in the United States and bring with them an ancient pathogen. "What we found was that the distribution of vampire bats has moved northward across time due to past climate change, which ...
Ecology
Nov 27, 2023
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