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Microplasty in the depths of the North Sea In thirty-five specimens collected in the depths of the North Sea and Barents at installations of exploitation of hydrocarbons and gases was found of the microplasty, at least from what is apparent from the analyses of a Norwegian institute that would have found that there is a danger to the food chain because of the bristle worms very present in the seabed they feed inadvertently of microplasty and then are eaten by the fishes and then by the men. For the moment, the real risks to health are not well known but Norwegian researchers who are surprised to make this discovery farther away in the sea would be making a map on the sources and the type of microplasty found even if some samples do not know the origin; morover a high number of fragments resemble plastic but can't tell if they really are. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 21, 2019 
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 Production of plastic destined to increase Although efforts have been multiplied to try to replace plastic with ecological materials and there have been agreements in the first weeks of 2019 among the major petrochemical industries to reduce its environmental impact (defined more than other than façade) it is expected that the production of plastic will continue to increase in the coming years and perhaps it will come to quadruple it for the 2050, considering that much of it would end up at sea and in the environment since the shares of material actually recycled are in practice a minimum percentage. The ever-increasing demand for petrochemical plants could become the main growth boost to fossil fuel consumption with consequent large amounts of carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. Plastic is part of everyday life and hides in many unsuspected products, but we have to renounce it because it has already entered the food chain. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 08, 2019 n°: 4000 Shortage of water reserves for irrigation Intensive agriculture requires large quantities of water whose demand can hardly be fulfilled and this problem was evident in Spain affected as other European countries by a prolonged heat wave in summer; in fact according to some the incident occurred to a child precipitated in an illegal, unfenced well in Andalusia was caused by the need to find new sources of water. Low rainfall, heatwaves and too exploited territory means less hydroelectric power and therefore to compensate for more CO2 emissions from fossil fuels, then digging wells requires energy, pumps and irrigation, also considering the impoverishment of parks and naturalistic areas that once were rich in water. The global problem of having to find new water reserves must be resolved if new conflicts between nations are not wanted. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 02, 2019 n°: 3995 Little groundwater for climate change The entire underground system impregnated with water consists of layers of soil, rock and sand that supplies the groundwater reserves is being impoverished because of climate change with already tangible effects and a risk that increases more and more with time considering that more than two billion people use it to drink and irriform the fields. It is a kind of natural recharge mechanism through rainwater that filters from the surface to the subsoil keeping in equilibrium with rivers, lakes and oceans where it slowly flows; Therefore any variation is carried out by chain and has a kind of long-term memory, for example in the Sahara that suffers the effects of climate change that occurred ten thousand years ago. Immediate action is needed for future generations also against the pollution to protect this indispensable natural resource. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 22, 2019 n°: 3985 Potatoes little adaptable to climate change The plant of the potato seems to grow rather well with the climatic overheating but what then imports for the harvest is the production of tubers which according to a new study decreases drastically; in fact while the chlorophyla content throughout the plant grows the tubers crop decreases to ninety three percent depending on the type of cultivars (some are not even able to form the tuber) and the simulated conditions by researchers with temperatures of thirty-five degrees Celsius in the daytime and twenty-eight at night have already been actually tested in reality. Difficult to find a cultivar that adapts to global warming since the best selection would have achieved a seventy percent decrease in the crop however will have to try to minimize the problem with new varieties and also a shorter harvest season. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 21, 2018 n°: 3959 Food choices affect the climate Meat eaters must be aware that this little healthy food choice can affect the global climate heavily; in fact for example Brazil does not want to respect the Paris agreements on reducing polluting emissions and proceed without prohibitions, considered penalizing, to the deforestation of the Amazon forest to obtain pastures for the cattle to be slaughtered. Without the so-called green lungs of the planet already heavily damaged with the cutting of trees in an area of over seven thousand square kilometers it will be really difficult to contain the rise of global temperatures, then have to take into account the deforestation in many countries of the globe make room for vast plantations of oil palm trees much used in low quality sweets and harmful to the health. This vicious cycle that feeds the greenhouse effect will eventually damage even the crops that allow proper feeding. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Dec 05, 2018 n°: 3945 A whale full of plastic waste in Indonesia In the stomach of a whale in an advanced state of decomposition localized in the east of Indonesia have been found one hundred and fifteen plastic cups, four bottles, twenty-five plastic bags... and another thousand residues of plastic material for a total of almost six kilograms; so this discovery makes one suspect that many other marine animals are contaminated in the same way by the pollution produced by plastics and this is very dangerous even for human life. Indonesia is an archipelago of two hundred and sixty million people and is after China the second largest environmental polluter regarding plastic waste (on nearly three million tonnes produced over one million ends at sea); moreover, according to some people should be able to understand to the population that this pollution is a common enemy starting from teaching in schools and with initiatives that aim at reducing the use of plastics. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 21, 2018 n°: 3933 Restrictions in Germany against glyphosate In order to protect biodiversity in Germany, farmers should continue to use glyphosate and other similar herbicides from 2020 to avoid spreading these pesticides on ten percent of the agricultural land with the intention also of changing the legislative approval process so that there is no harmful impact on the environment of other possibly even more dangerous molecules used to replace glyphosate; then there will be prohibitions for ecologically more sensitive areas and at water protection zones. The regulations in general will provide for a ban on the use of pesticides within twenty metres of water sources; moreover in private gardens and parks there would be a suggestion to ban the use of herbicides. It should also be noted that a chocolate ice cream distributed in France, Germany, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom in which traces were found considered risky of glyphosate had provoked the protests of environmentalists. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 07, 2018 n°: 3920 Pay the bus with used plastic bottles It is estimated that the archipelago of Indonesia islands are second only to China regarding the pollution of plastic residues in the ocean and to solve the problem the authorities of the large city of Surabaya located east of Java would have promoted an ecological plan initiative to pay two hours of travel on buses with plastic waste, ten containers or at least five bottles (depending on size); in fact the data showed that the fifteen percent corresponding to four hundred tonnes of Surabaya's daily waste is made up of plastic. The lettering applied to bottles or other containers and the plastic plugs are removed after collection and the waste is sent to the recycling plants, then the proceeds of the recovered raw material is destined to the transport bus companies and to create green spaces in the city, also contributing to improve the urban aspect and that of the beaches. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 24, 2018 n°: 3908 Less beer for cause of the climate change The increasingly frequent heat waves and drought periods damage barley crops, one of the main ingredients in brewing beer together with malt, so it is expected in the future more scarce harvests and with a much lesser quality considering that high-quality barley is more sensitive to climate change; also, the price of this fairly healthy beverage if drunk in moderate doses could also double (in the worst conditions). The production of beer in 2017 was two hundred billion liters being the most popular alcoholic beverage, but being a substantially luxury product some argue that since climate change also damages other crops, impoverish them of nutritional properties, the barley could be used for the primary livelihood of the populations rather than in the production of beer. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Oct 16, 2018 n°: 3902 Nutrition * The author doesn't assume some kind of responsibility for the bad use of the articles councils (all rights are reserved) |
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