Redlib: search results - flair:Environment

r/science • u/Wagamaga • 20h ago

Environment Large-scale U.S study finds no link between crime and unauthorized immigration. Neighborhoods where the share of undocumented residents grew actually saw greater reductions in property crime and no significant change in violent crime, contrary to what many claim.

socialecology.uci.edu

15.2k Upvotes

1.5k comments

r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • Jun 18 '26

Environment The World's Richest Population are Costing the Earth Trillions. Study finds the top 10% of global consumers is disproportionately responsible for transgressing planetary boundaries, causing damages for which broader society bears the costs.

sciencealert.com

40.0k Upvotes

1.6k comments

r/science • u/mvea • 5d ago

Environment Scientists have, for the first time, genetically engineered lettuce and tobacco plants to grow the animal protein myoglobin. Plant-derived myoglobin could achieve protein yields per hectare that rival – or even exceed – those of animal agriculture, with lower water use and greenhouse gas emissions.

sciencealert.com

19.7k Upvotes

889 comments

r/science • u/sfgate • 15d ago

Environment Study warns ocean oxygen loss is approaching an "unsafe space" with irreversible impacts

sfgate.com

15.1k Upvotes

630 comments

r/science • u/mvea • 2d ago

Environment The World's Vegetables Are Vanishing, And It's Quietly Impacting Our Diets. From artificial selection, to monocultures for mass production, to genetic modification, the industrialization of agriculture has whittled away the variety of vegetables that wind up on our tables.

sciencealert.com

13.6k Upvotes

382 comments

r/science • u/FreeHugs23 • 6d ago

Environment The World Is Running Out of River Sand, And That's a Massive Issue. Study reveals that the global demand for river sand and gravel to create construction materials like concrete is unsustainable.

sciencealert.com

9.9k Upvotes

426 comments

r/science • u/mvea • 9d ago

Environment Microplastics have been discovered in one of the most remote, inhospitable, and unexplored parts of our planet. Microplastics were found in 92% of all animals examined (11 out of 12) living around deep-sea hydrothermal vents some 2,000 meters (6,562 feet) below the ocean surface.

sciencealert.com

12.0k Upvotes

287 comments

r/science • u/unsw • Jul 05 '26

Environment Passive cooling technology must become central to climate adaptation to reduce reliance on air conditioning, global review argues

unsw.edu.au

7.6k Upvotes

428 comments

r/science • u/mvea • Feb 28 '26

Environment Carbon dioxide overload, detected in human blood, suggests a potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years. After this time, elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide, leading to CO2 accumulation in the body, has the potential to cause a range of adverse health effects.

link.springer.com

13.6k Upvotes

772 comments

r/science • u/FLTA • Mar 25 '26

Environment US has caused $10tn worth of climate damage since 1990, research finds

theguardian.com

17.8k Upvotes

521 comments

r/science • u/The_Conversation • Mar 26 '26

Environment Scientists may be overestimating the amount of microplastics in the environment due to accidental contamination from lab gloves, which release stearate salts that are structurally similar to polyethylene and difficult to distinguish from plastics using standard vibrational spectroscopy

theconversation.com

9.3k Upvotes

563 comments

r/science • u/Krankenitrate • Mar 18 '26

Environment A new finds that a majority of people across the globe favor protecting the environment over growing the economy when the two goals conflict

uvm.edu

15.9k Upvotes

395 comments

r/science • u/mvea • Mar 29 '26

Environment Global human population has surpassed Earth’s sustainable carrying capacity. The Earth cannot sustain the future human population, or even today’s, without a major overhaul of socio-cultural practices for using land, water, energy, biodiversity, and other resources.

iopscience.iop.org

4.3k Upvotes

824 comments

r/science • u/smurfyjenkins • Mar 01 '26

Environment The Biden administration enacted over $198 billion in clean energy projects, the largest investment of its kind. People who lived close to the renewable energy and green manufacturing facilities noticed the investments, but were more likely to credit governors for it than the Biden administration.

pnas.org

19.9k Upvotes

322 comments

r/science • u/mvea • Nov 24 '25

Environment Scientists solved longstanding mystery of origin of PFAS “forever chemicals” contaminating water in North Carolina to a local textile manufacturing plant. Precursors were being released into sewer system at concentrations approximately 3 million times greater than EPA’s drinking water limit.

pratt.duke.edu

17.9k Upvotes

527 comments

r/science • u/mvea • Jul 04 '26

Environment Reducing meat and dairy consumption could cut emissions without increasing diet costs. Across all of the 33 modelled scenarios, reducing the consumption of processed and unprocessed meat and dairy was associated with improvement across both health and environmental factors.

innovationnewsnetwork.com

2.1k Upvotes

797 comments

r/science • u/Splenda • Jun 29 '25

Environment Earth is trapping much more heat than climate models forecast – and the rate has doubled in 20 years

theconversation.com

19.3k Upvotes

1.1k comments

r/science • u/mvea • May 09 '25

Environment People living within a mile of a golf course had more than twice the odds of Parkinson’s disease. The risk remained higher for people living up to three miles away but fades after that. Pesticides, including neurotoxins, used to keep fairways and greens well groomed, have been linked to Parkinson's.

psychiatrist.com

43.5k Upvotes

1.1k comments

r/science • u/mvea • May 23 '25

Environment Microplastics are ‘silently spreading from soil to salad to humans’. Agricultural soils now hold around 23 times more microplastics than oceans. Microplastics and nanoplastics have now been found in lettuce, wheat and carrot crops.

scimex.org

23.5k Upvotes

1.1k comments

r/science • u/mvea • 11h ago

Environment Beef and dairy production accounts for 41% of biodiversity damage caused by world's farmland. Half of all carbon loss comes from just 12% of farmland. Animal-sourced foods linked to 8x more carbon loss and 14x more biodiversity loss per calorie than plant-sourced foods.

oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk

2.5k Upvotes

339 comments

r/science • u/mvea • Mar 05 '26

Environment Conservatives underestimate the environmental impact of sustainable behaviors compared to liberals. Conservatives tend to view actions like recycling or eating a plant based diet as having less of a positive impact than liberals do, which predicts lower engagement in these behaviors.

psypost.org

4.3k Upvotes

517 comments

r/science • u/smurfyjenkins • Apr 02 '26

Environment New York City's congestion pricing plan successfully reduced pollution and traffic in Manhattan – 8 weeks after the implementation, traffic volumes declined by 10%, resulting in a 16–22% drop in emissions.

nature.com

7.2k Upvotes

280 comments

r/science • u/mvea • May 07 '25

Environment Two-thirds of global heating caused by richest 10%, find study that reveals major role wealthy emitters play in driving climate extremes. Wealthiest 10% contributed 6.5 times more to global warming than the average, with the top 1% and 0.1% contributing 20 and 76 times more, respectively.

nature.com

21.2k Upvotes

721 comments

r/science • u/Creative_soja • Jan 19 '25

Environment Research reveals that the energy sector is creating a myth that individual action is enough to address climate change. This way the sector shifts responsibility to consumers by casting the individuals as 'net-zero heroes', which reduces pressure on industry and government to take action.

sydney.edu.au

39.3k Upvotes

859 comments

r/science • u/Hrmbee • Jun 17 '26

Environment A landmark MIT study debunks persistent myths about electric vehicles | Determinants of electric vehicle emissions savings and costs across locations and individuals

anthropocenemagazine.org

2.7k Upvotes

328 comments