Month: January 2025

Healthy tree canopies are incredibly underrated, yet they bring so much value to urban neighbourhoods . They provide shade, improve air quality, reduce urban heat, and create more beautiful, liveable streets . Let's prioritise planting and preserving more trees in our cities to foster healthier, greener, and more welcoming spaces for everyone. (picture: @berkie1) #UrbanGreening #TreeCanopies...

Disposable paper cups have become popular in today’s society. It is the preferred choice of most beverage companies as it is supposedly more environmentally friendly compared to its counterpart, disposable plastic cups. Besides that, the paper cup is light in weight, convenient and easy to take and use, and the heat insulation effect is better than that of the plastic cup when holding hot...

People who drink loose leaf tea might be on to something: scientists in Spain have found evidence of plastic pollution getting into human cells after being leached from tea bags. Published in the journal Chemosphere, the research by a team from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, Sohag University in Egypt and the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, Germany, found that...