A sulphurous end for the dinosaurs, according to new research
Climate cooling associated with sulphur gases directly contributed to the extinction of the dinosaurs, research carried out at the Universities of St Andrews and Bristol has found. (Source: University of Bristol news)
Source: University of Bristol news - March 21, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: Research; Faculty of Science, School of Earth Sciences; Press Release Source Type: news
Tonga tsunami: Health warnings over toxic volcanic ash and sulphur
People are being advised to remain indoors to escape the dangerous ash and gases in the air. (Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition)
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - January 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Tonga tsunami: Health warnings over toxic volcanic ash and sulphur
People are being advised to remain indoors to escape the dangerous ash and gases in the air. #tonga (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - January 19, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Sulphur-crested cockatoos learn to open wheelie bins in Sydney – video
Sulphur-crested cockatoos are learning to pry open bins, with researchers finding the new skill has caught on in 44 Sydney suburbs in just two years. With help from the public, Australian and German ecologists have documented cockatoos learning the bin-diving behaviour through social interactions. The research, published in the journalScience, also found differences in the cockatoos ’ bin-opening technique between different suburbs, arising from 'local subcultures'.Video courtesy of the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour, Australian Museum Research Institute and Taronga Conservation Society Australia. Continue...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - July 22, 2021 Category: Science Tags: Birds Animals Australia news Science Zoology Animal behaviour Sydney Wildlife New South Wales Source Type: news
Reducing the melting of the Greenland ice cap using solar geoengineering?
(University of Liege) Injecting sulphur into the stratosphere to reduce solar radiation and stop the Greenland ice cap from melting. An interesting scenario, but not without risks. Climatologists from the University of Li è ge (Belgium) have looked into the matter and have tested one of the scenarios put forward using the MAR climate model developed at ULi è ge. The results are mixed and have been published in the journal The Cryosphere. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - July 7, 2021 Category: Biology Source Type: news
Nigeria: How Nigerians Are Paying Deadly Price for Europe's Dirty Fuel
[Premium Times] Nigeria has made several promises to ensure its fuel contain low sulphur, but its petrol and kerosene have sulphur over 20 times times what they should be. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - January 11, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news
Hair loss treatment: Sulphur supplement shown to improve alopecia without side effects
HAIR loss treatments that survive scientific scrutiny are few and far between and for good reason - it is extremely difficult to develop a successful treatment. Evidence hints at the promise of a number of natural products, however. One that has attracted the interest of researchers is a sulfur-rich supplement. (Source: Daily Express - Health)
Source: Daily Express - Health - January 6, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
Long COVID symptoms may include parosmia as people report 'disgusting' smells of fish, burning and sulphur
Loss of smell is a coronavirus symptom, but some with long COVID are detecting unpleasant odours months after catching the virus. (Source: Reuters: Health)
Source: Reuters: Health - December 28, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news
App allows city-dwellers to turn citizen scientists and track Australia's urban birds
Big City Birds app launched to help researchers better understand sulphur-crested cockatoo, ibis and brush-turkeyThere ’s a new reason to engage with some of Australia’s most ubiquitous birds. A new app allows users to record the whereabouts of “big city” species like the sulphur-crested cockatoo and the Australian white ibis.Researchers at the University of Sydney and Taronga Conservation Society have launched the Big City Birds app to assist scientists with data collection and help them better understand some of our most common species.Continue reading... (Source: Guardian Unlimited Science)
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - November 11, 2020 Category: Science Authors: Mostafa Rachwani Tags: Birds Australia news Wildlife Animals Environment Science Research Source Type: news
Improving the monitoring of ship emissions
(University of Oldenburg) A new EU-project aims at developing a sensor network to monitor ship emissions. A German-French team led by marine scientist Oliver Wurl of the University of Oldenburg, Germany, will develop a network of data bouys for autonomously measuring soot, oil, sulphur dioxide or plastic debris at the sea surface and in the air. Drones and devices deployed from aboard research vessels will supplement the system. (Source: EurekAlert! - Biology)
Source: EurekAlert! - Biology - August 3, 2020 Category: Biology Source Type: news
UN Chief Warns of Deadly Germs as Potential Bioterrorist Weapons
Credit: United NationsBy Thalif DeenUNITED NATIONS, Jul 8 2020 (IPS) The coronavirus—which has claimed the lives of over 538,000 people and infected more than 11.6 million worldwide—has destabilized virtually every facet of human life ever since its outbreak in late December.
Providing a grim economic scenario of the devastation caused by the pandemic– including rising poverty, hunger and unemployment– UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned last week of the possibility of an even worse disaster: the risks of bioterrorist attacks deploying deadly germs.
He said it has already shown some of the ways in...
Source: IPS Inter Press Service - Health - July 8, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: Thalif Deen Tags: Armed Conflicts Featured Global Global Geopolitics Global Governance Headlines Health IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse Peace TerraViva United Nations Source Type: news
Katherine Johnson, NASA Mathematician Whose Work Inspired the Film Hidden Figures, Dies at 101
Katherine Johnson, a mathematician who calculated rocket trajectories and earth orbits for NASA’s early space missions and was later portrayed in the 2016 hit film “Hidden Figures,” about pioneering black female aerospace workers, has died. She was 101.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said on Twitter that she died Monday morning. No cause was given.
Bridenstine tweeted that the NASA family “will never forget Katherine Johnson’s courage and the milestones we could not have reached without her. Her story and her grace continue to inspire the world.”
The @NASA family will never forget ...
Source: TIME: Science - February 24, 2020 Category: Science Authors: BEN FINLEY / AP Tags: Uncategorized NASA onetime Space Source Type: news
Bayreuth researchers discover new arsenic compounds in rice fields
(Universit ä t Bayreuth) University of Bayreuth researchers, together with scientists from Italy and China, have for the first time sys-tematically investigated under which conditions, and to what extent, sulphur-containing arsenic com-pounds are formed in rice-growing soils. In the journal " Nature Geoscience " the scientists present their re-sults and identify the urgent need for research with a view to protecting consumers from health risks. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - February 11, 2020 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Source Type: news
Ghana: Reducing Air Pollution in Accra
[Ghanaian Times] Air pollution is a type of environmental pollution that affects the air and is usually caused by smoke or other harmful gases, mainly oxides of carbon, sulphur and nitrogen. (Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine)
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - December 11, 2019 Category: African Health Source Type: news
