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Radioactive Horn – Science Against the Rhino Black Market
Planet Earth has been home to rhinoceroses for millions of years—one of its oldest giants still walking today, albeit with an uncertain future. While the most extreme natural disasters failed to bring this species to the brink of extinction, humans…
Chernobyl: The Next Phase
At 01:23:40 on 26 April 1986, the failure of a routine test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, caused reactor 4 to explode, releasing parts of its radioactive core. It was the…
Japan Struggles to Relocate Fukushima Nuclear Waste
Japan is struggling to find a resting place for soil contaminated in the 2011 Fukushima Daiichi nuclear meltdown. In the years after the disaster, thousands of workers starting removing soil, debris and other contaminated material from the area in a…
NGO HEAL: The Amount of Particle Pollution from Air which We Are Exposed to
The numerous consequences of air pollution, including the contribution to mortality of one million people per year worldwide, are becoming a hot topic in Serbia. Exposure to air pollution is associated with a huge number of acute and chronic diseases,…
ECOHEALTH – In which Way Have We Disturbed Balance in Nature?
The occurrence of a type of pollution entails the disturbance of the natural balance in other parts of the ecosystem, affecting all human beings, since pollution does not know national and regional borders, nor racial, gender, and class differences. Despite…