| Indoor Air Alert: Ozone Reacts with Human Skin to Produce Potential Irritants When it's smoggy outside, the ozone (O 3 ) responsible for the murk slips indoors, too, wafting through doors or ventilation systems. Once inside, the volatile oxygen molecule reacts with carpets, chemical cleaner residue and human skin. [More] rss.sciam.com |
Britain's rare birds get more common, as common birds get rarer More than half of the U.K.'s rarest birds have seen recent population increases, according to the 10th annual "State of the U.K.'s Birds" report (pdf) . rss.sciam.com |
Wildlife Organization Offers a Thousand Green Reasons to Help Save Endangered Species If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, you can win $1,000 or more by locating and helping to conserve endangered species. [More] rss.sciam.com |
The fly's revenge: Are cadmium-contaminated insects killing endangered meat-eating plants? Around the world carnivorous plants are on the decline, the victims of habitat loss, illegal poaching and pollution. But now a new factor has come to light: The very insects the plants rely on for food may be poisoning them.According to new research by Christopher Moody and Iain Green of Bournemouth University in England, prey insects could be contaminated with toxic metals such as cadmium that, when ingested by meat-eating flora, affect the plants' growth. [More] rss.sciam.com |
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