environment and health

The effect of street lighting on wild rodents. Illustration: Avi Blizovsky via DALEE

Artificial night light disrupts the immune system of wild rodents

A study from Tel Aviv University found that artificial lighting at night, even at the intensity of street lighting, disrupts the activity patterns of the immune system in wild rodents and may increase the risk of mortality.
Poisoning of vultures, October 2021, in the Nahal Kina area in the south. Photo: Shlomit Shavit, Israel Nature and Parks Authority

The blessing and curse of pesticides

Following mass poisonings of wildlife from improper use of pesticides – here's how to reduce the risk of the next poisoning
A sign of a pharmacy in Italy, with a temperature of forty degrees on it. Illustration: depositphotos.com

Study: Climate crisis could reduce life expectancy by six months

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A one-degree Celsius increase in global average temperature due to man-made climate crisis could shorten life expectancy by about 5 months, with women and residents of developing countries disproportionately affected.
environmental protection. Illustration: depositphotos.com 2011.

War in nature

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The planet "City". Illustration: depositphotos.com

Why are more and more people moving to cities and is it worthwhile?

The cities are dense and have a fast pace of life, but still more and more people are moving to them, especially in the developing countries
Prof. Shimshon Belkin, Hebrew University. Photo by Yoav Dudkevich

A biological database named Sewage

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Researchers from the Hebrew University have developed a method for quick and efficient monitoring of substances harmful to humans in sewage water and other environmental samples * Prof. Shimshon Belkin and his group have developed through genetic engineering a series of cellular sensors, which become
Cellular antennas - the fifth generation. Illustration: Image by Ria Sopala from Pixabay

Who is afraid of generation five?

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City of summer

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Quality tests for drinking water inside educational institutions are the only way to make sure that the water is safe. Illustration: https://plumbwellplumbers.com.au

What is in the water our children drink at school?

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Exposure to polluted air is known to be associated with a wide range of health problems. Photo: Nik Shuliahin on Unsplash.

air business

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One of the most surprising findings in the study was that no relationship was found between the variety or amount of insects and the lifestyle of the residents of the house. Photo: Annie Spratt.

A hotel for insects

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Air pollution in Beijing. Photo: 大杨.

New window screens will filter air pollutants

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Illustration: pixabay.

is there water

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Osteoporosis is the most common cause of broken bones in the elderly of both sexes. Illustration: pixabay.

Bone penetrating infection

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New research will monitor infections from space

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Illustration: pixabay.

breathe easy

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Ebola virus. Source: CDC/Cynthia Goldsmith.

Did you cut down a forest? Beware of Ebola

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Illustration: pixabay.

Fatal exposure in pregnancy

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The lands in the arctic circle have been frozen for thousands and sometimes even hundreds of thousands of years. Photo: NASA.

When the ground disappears under your feet

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Air pollution originating from power plants, industry, transportation and more causes up to 2,253 deaths per year. Illustration: pixabay.

Air pollution: the silent killer

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In the poorest and most densely populated areas on Earth, drinking water wells, dug to avoid the need to use surface water contaminated with bacteria, are poisoned by arsenic originating from groundwater. Now these too are in danger. Illustration: pixabay.

Death in the water: Arsenic is poisoning people around the world

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A power plant in Colorado, United States, that stopped burning coal this year. The old station began operating in 1924. Photo: Carol Jacobs-Carre.

Coal records

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In the last twenty years there has been a sharp increase in the percentage of children suffering from obesity worldwide. Photo: US Department of Agriculture.

What is fattening around?

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Sandstorm in Iraq, 2005. Photo: Corporal Alicia M. Garcia, US Marine Corps.

The genetics of dust storms

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The Aedes aegypt mosquito, which is among the transmitters of the Zika virus. Source: James Gathany / PHIL, CDC.

The diseases spread by climate change

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Urban landscape with trees. Better to focus on lower vegetation. Photo: Vladimir Kudinov.

The generous discourse

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Exposure to chronic air pollution is equivalent to two years of accelerated aging in terms of cognitive ability. Photo: Wiebrig Krakau.

Aging in a polluted world

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Nighttime satellite photo of the Nile Delta. The lifeblood of Egypt. Photo: NASA Earth Observatory.

The environmental disaster that will shake the Middle East?

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Thawing frozen soil witness in Alaska. Source: NPS Climate Change Response.

As the Earth warms, there is increasing concern about the return of frozen diseases

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From the right: Prof. Ora Peltiel, director of the School of Public Health at the Hebrew University and senior physician in the hematology department at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital and doctoral students Gefen Kleinstern and Rania Abu Sir (who received their PhDs as part of the research). Source: The Hebrew University.

Is there a difference between Jews and Palestinians in the risk factors of getting cancer?

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Livestock animals, who are raised in high density, are given antibiotics that encourage resistance in bacteria, which eventually end up in our food. Source: pixabay.

The pathway of drug-resistant bacteria from the farm to the dinner table

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A phosphate mine in the state of Utah, United States. Source: Jason Parker-Burlingham.

The mission: improving the estimation of particle emissions from phosphate mines

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The plant Arabidopsis, after genetic engineering (right) during which 11 genes involved in the production of cholesterol were inserted into it, produces cholesterol in a quantity 15 times greater than a normal white Arabidopsis (left). Source: Weizmann Institute magazine.

green cholesterol

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Researchers have discovered a bacterium residing in the common sponge Theonella Swinhoe, which stores huge amounts of the toxic chemical element arsenic, and can help develop methods for effectively cleaning water from the toxin. Source: Courtesy of Tel Aviv University.

Researchers have discovered a bacterium that stores huge amounts of arsenic

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snow in Jerusalem. Photo: Miriam Mezzera, Flickr.

Why is it colder in my house?

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The exposure to the dangerous substances occurs not only through eating and drinking food products that contain them, but also through the respiratory system and external contact. Photo: pixabay.com.

Children's meal with pesticides

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Source: pixabay.

long term vegetables

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Home growing of vegetables using the hydroponic method. Photo: Courtesy of Flux

The robot that will grow your salad

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Photo: orientalizing, Flickr

So what did we have this year?

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X-ray of a healthy breast (left) versus a breast with cancer. Source: Wikimedia.

A winning medicinal combination

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tomato. Source: Wikimedia / Manjithkaini.

Why not peel a tomato

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That is, about 2.5 million tons of food at a cost of about NIS 18 billion is lost every year. Photo: TAZ.

save the food

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Defective male hormonal communication during the development of the reproductive system in the fetus prevents a normal transformation of the fetus from a female configuration to a male configuration. Illustration photo: Tyler Mullins.

Environmental feminization

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Illustrating the need for clean water supply. Illustration: shutterstock

World Health Organization official: We can save millions of lives if we stop warming

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Graphene. Illustration: shutterstock

The dark side of graphene / Catherine Burzak

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Prof. Yaakov Ketan. Photo: The Hebrew University.

Israel Prize for Agriculture and Environmental Sciences to Prof. Yaakov Katan who developed a pest control system with the help of solar energy

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Bones of a Neanderthal who lived 120 years ago in the area that is today Croatia, with a cancerous tumor on them. Photo: Janet Monge et al

A 120-year-old cancerous tumor was found in Neanderthal bones

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Hospital Healing Garden in Celebration_Health, Florida. From Wikipedia

Health Sciences - Medicinal Gardens / Deborah Franklin

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The procedure for testing the sample and running the exam paper. Take a 10 mm piece of the collection paper. The metal particles are acid-dissolved in the microwave for 45 seconds. The paper is then neutralized with a basic substance and placed on top of the test paper. Adding water to the test paper causes the ionized metals to move to the detection points on the paper, where they are attached From the beginning of the desired reactants for identification using a color change Photo: American Chemical Society

An innovative device warns of high levels of metals in the air

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Right: Prof. Brian Berkowitz and Dr. Yishai Dror. Purified water

Take out the poison

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