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Areas reserved for biodiversity not respected With an agreement concluded in 2010 almost two hundred nations pledged to reserve by 2020 seventeen percent of the globe's territories to areas reserved for the protection of biodiversity through parks and other naturalistic sanctuaries in order to be shield plants and animals for pollution, land clearances and climate change; but a third of these areas are now subject to human exploitation with the construction of roads, cities, farms and railways, at least from what would result from a research carried out in Australia that has calculated in about six million square kilometers the loss in biodiversity. To make a figurative example it is as if a territory that includes India and Argentina combined was subjected to human exploitation also (with some exceptions) forcing in practice the species that populate them to migrate and thus influencing the biodiversity of other areas generating conflicts between species and unhealthy natural imbalances. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 19, 2018 
n°: 3769
 Safe reconstruction after earthquakes In a celebration carried out by the Chinese authorities in memory of a disastrous earthquake ten years ago in Sichuan that caused seventy thousand victims, the investment department for reconstruction would have said that hardly a similar tragedy would now occur because the houses were rebuilt with anti-seismic criteria (although there are in some cases of controversy) hoping that other Asian nations where the risk in case of earthquake remains very high, aggravated by an uncontrolled type of urbanization, follow the same example. Moving the attention to Italy in the city of Fermo in the Marche region to report a case on which is still try to clarify and probably due to lack of proper verification after the earthquake of 2016; in fact, for the failure of a truss collapsed the roof of a computer school classroom of a historical building just before the students entered the school. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 15, 2018 n°: 3765 Soil moisture fluctuations monitored Using climate models related to soil humidity of thirty-seven simulations to calculate which regions will experience the largest positive and negative fluctuations until 2100 European researchers identified how the tropics are the areas most at risk and therefore the poorest countries could suffer the greatest fluctuations because of climate change increasing effects; in practice the threat will be for water resources and food making life increasingly difficult. For each degree of climatic overheating the study foresees a temperature variability of more than fifteen percent in Amazon and in the south of Africa and of ten percent in the Sahel region in Africa, India and southeast Asia. One of the most important mechanisms in the climatic fluctuations would be the drying of the soil and also a small increase of the temperatures decreases the cooling effect of a humid soil. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: May 08, 2018 n°: 3759 Inconvenience by heat wave on the Philippines Due to temperatures of more than forty-one degrees Celsius monitored in at least fourteen areas of the Philippines the meteorological bureau of the state would have advised the population as a precaution to stay indoors and maintain good hydration in addition to remain in the lower floors of homes in environments not overheated by sunlight avoiding outdoor activities for the risk of cramping and heat exhaustion. In the province of Cavite in the locality of Sangley Point the monitored temperature was higher than forty-seven and half Celsius degrees and generally as often happens in case of heat waves the authorities recommend very lightweight clothes of light colors (in natural fibres) that can reflect the sun's rays and in case of a drink only abundant water; in fact alcohol dehydrates the body, then it might be useful to make small and frequent meals avoiding protein-rich foods that increase the metabolic heat. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Apr 23, 2018 n°: 3748 Stop smoking without electronic cigarettes For the smokers who decide to quit smoking is better not using electronic cigarettes as a substitute to ignite normal ones with tobacco to give up the little healthy habit, at least according to the results of a study in which American researchers treated with targeted health care over one thousand and three hundred-fifty smokers who expressly asked to stop, of these twenty-eight percent used electronic cigarettes occasionally for three months after they stopped, and after six months it would have been verified with lab tests that a ten percent of these had actually stopped smoking in comparison to a twenty-seven percent that had not used electronic cigarettes. Changing completely topic but remaining on health issues to report that in the little yellow ducks of rubber to put in the bath of children have been then found potentially pathogenic bacteria. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 30, 2018 n°: 3729 The selfies photograph a distorted face profile When take a photograph of the face with the smartphone using the self-timer type function of the selfies the nose will be wider than it is in reality and apparently has happened that people have gone to the plastic surgeon with the request to be subjected to cosmetic procedures so that the photographs can be more pleasing, then it happens that many want to try to improve the photo on the platforms of social media. It was also measured the distortion caused by selfie that tends to widen the size of the nose and that would be a thirty percent for males and a twenty-nine percent for females with a selfies made from the distance of thirty centimeters from the face, but if get away from a meter and a half this distortion will minimize so much that is possible adjust the distance of the camera to emphasize more less or less a detail of the face. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 08, 2018 n°: 3710 A supermarket without plastic packaging If there are gluten or lactose, and fat free products in the same way the consumer should have the opportunity to buy unpackaged products in plastic, at least according to statements by managers of a Dutch chain of supermarkets that opened one in Amsterdam where in the lanes everything can put in the trolley is packaged using glass, metal, cardboard or compostable and biodegradable materials. This is the first supermarket in the world without plastics with the intention by the end of the year to adapt to this choice more friendly environment all seventy-four outlets since plastic is becoming one of the worst threats to humanity. It is estimated that more than eight billion tons of various plastics produced from the 1950 over six have become wastes that remain for centuries in the oceans and landfills and only nine percent would have been recycled. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Mar 02, 2018 n°: 3705 Clarifications on biodegradable plastic Consumers may be misled about the use of certain products marketed as "biodegradable plastic" thinking that once disposed can slowly disappear completely from the environment when instead containing high percentages of plastic derived from fossil fuels in practice initially have a very polluting impact and then disintegrate into microplastic with the effect of causing further ecological problems; at least according to a Norwegian study that warns that biodegradable plastic is not recyclable and cannot be part of a circular economy. Must to pay attention to the right type of use and for example those who use the so-called dog bags biodegradable for animals should not think that if not properly disposed can be degraded by the environment and still it is better to use bags completely biodegradable just to one hundred percent. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Feb 21, 2018 n°: 3697 Do not try to smoke and watch out for films Anyone who has tried to smoke a cigarette is likely to become smoker, at least from what results from a research carried out for six years on two hundred and fifteen thousand people with questionnaires that would have verified that about sixty percent of these state that they have tried to smoke; then nearly sixty-nine percent continued to smoke in the following days. This is approximate data with some limitation because people do not always remember well the time when they turned on the first cigarette and subject to errors of assessment but that emphasizes how important it is not to have experience of cigarettes. Another study shows that it is common for young people to see in films of recent production and in television others who smoke or take a cigarette from a package and then be enticed to smoke. To minimize the damage from smoking once freed of the unhealthy vice can eat many apples and tomatoes. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Jan 12, 2018 n°: 3663 Little salutary marathon in the New Delhi smog Despite the negative opinion of the health authorities thousands of citizens of New Delhi joined a very little salutary (half) marathon; in fact the quality of the air has been evaluated as very low even if efforts have been made to try to improve the situation by washing the roads with a substance that absorbs the particulate and limiting the circulation of cars, then a slight rain had given another little help. From the early days of November New Delhi (very polluted metropolis from over twenty million inhabitants) and other parts of northern India find themselves in a hood of smog that envelops every inhabited with a kind of toxic fog so many people have presented themselves as sick in the hospital and many schools have been closed; so it is easy to imagine what damage to the body can have to a person who runs in these conditions by conveying more particulate matter in the respiratory tree. e-mail: info@salutary.eu Tel: +39 338 1809310 Date: Nov 20, 2017 n°: 3619 Salutary and Well-being * 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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