Tons of COVID Medical Garbage Threaten Health

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March 07, 2022

Pollution Tons of COVID Medical Garbage Threaten Health Burning piles of used gloves, test kits and syringes release toxic pollutants. But there are ways to improve medical recycling By Charles Schmidt

Policy Science News Briefs from around the World: March 2022 In case you missed it By Nikk Ogasa

Energy The Risks of Russian Attacks near Ukraine's Nuclear Power Plants Commercial plants have built-in safety systems but aren't designed with warfare in mind By Andrea Thompson

Public Health Making COVID Tests Better at Detecting Infectious People Scientists are debating whether to use a little-known measure to determine who is truly contagious. The NFL is already using it By Rae Ellen Bichell,Kaiser Health News

Fossil Fuels Amid War, Biden Reluctant to Unleash Clean Energy Rhetoric The president has not followed Europe's calls to produce more renewable energy to weaken Russia's global influence. By Adam Aton,E&E News

Evolution The Devastating Loss of Grandparents among One Million COVID Dead Grandparents are a majority of the pandemic's death toll By Robin Marantz Henig

Ecology Bird Feeders Are Good for Some Species--But Possibly Bad for Others Studies of bird feeding in the U.K. raise concerns about the ecological impacts of provisioning our feathered friends By Asher Elbein

Public Health The Push to Move Past the Pandemic: COVID Quickly, Episode 25 Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American's senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between. You can listen to all past episodes here. By Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Jeffery DelViscio | 07:26

Fossil Fuels Will the Russian Invasion Accelerate Peak Oil? Soon the globe could have more clean energy—or higher-priced oil By Benjamin Storrow,E&E News

Space Exploration The First Rocket Launch from Mars Will Start in Midair NASA's Mars Ascent Vehicle will attempt a wildly unconventional liftoff to bring Red Planet samples back to Earth By Jonathan O'Callaghan

History 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: March 2022 Human aura is ultraviolet; stimulating holly tea By Mark Fischetti

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FROM THE ARCHIVE COVID-19 Has Worsened the Ocean Plastic Pollution Problem A drastic increase in use of masks and gloves, plus a decline in recycling programs, is threatening the health of the seas By Dave Ford | August 2020

QUOTE OF THE DAY "The pandemic is shining a light on the inadequacy of global health care waste management systems that are long due for an overhaul." Ruth Stringer, international science and policy coordinator at Health Care Without Harm

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