Ecology

German scientists conducted a study to find out how much dust settles on every square meter of German apartments. It turned out that, on average, three grams per day. But this is in Europe, and in Ukraine, due to the nature of the soil, dust generation is much higher. In addition, the amount of dust depends on the age of the building - the older it is, the more dust.

The World Health Organization has concluded that the exhaust of diesel engines provokes the development of lung cancer and bladder cancer. Experts who participated in the WHO conference in Lyon, France, during the week studied the latest research of scientists from around the world, where the relationship between the inhalation of diesel fumes and the development of cancer was monitored.

It is known that children from large cities suffer much more from allergies than children from rural areas. Scientists of the University of Chicago Ruhi Gupta have created a map of the prevalence of childhood food allergies in the United States.

World Environment Day, annually celebrated on June 5, is one of the main ways for the United Nations to attract world attention to environmental problems, as well as to stimulate political interest and appropriate actions aimed at protecting the environment.