The hotel’s basic ozonation and composting systems lack advanced treatment needed for sensitive coastal zones. Without independent monitoring, there’s no way to confirm that wastewater meets safety standards. On an island without a municipal sewage network, any leakage could threaten coral reefs, seagrass beds, and turtle habitats.
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Paris said au revoirs to cars and see how air pollution halved.
A new peer-reviewed study in Science connects long-term exposure to fine particulate matter (PM2.5) with higher risk of Lewy body dementia (LBD) in a dataset of 56.5 million US Medicare records, and backs it up with animal experiments that show PM2.5 triggers toxic α-synuclein clumps — the protein aggregates that define LBD.
Crucially, the study clarifies how pollution interacts with brain biology: only mice capable of producing α-synuclein developed dementia-like brain damage after PM2.5 exposure — a mechanistic clue echoed by a Johns Hopkins release and Columbia Mailman overview. As Nature reports, PM2.5 doesn’t necessarily cause LBD from scratch — it can accelerate the development in people already genetically predisposed, notes clinician-neuroscientist Hui Chen (University of Technology Sydney – Nature).
Why millennials should care
PM2.5 is small enough to reach the bloodstream and brain, with established risks for heart and lung disease — and growing evidence for cognitive harm and dementia. See U.S. EPA: PM Basics, EPA: Health Effects, WHO: Air Pollution & Health, and a Harvard meta-analysis on pollution-dementia links (Harvard T.H. Chan School). Policy matters, fast: cutting fossil pollution saves lives and money within years — co-benefits quantified in recent modeling for the US and globally.
Eco Action steps that actually help
Drive electric, support clean transit
Vlakfest on a train in Europe
Tailpipe emissions are a prime PM2.5 source; electrifying cars, buses, and freight slashes exposure. EPA and NIH summarize health benefits; U.S. rules are tightening PM standards. From the region: EV adoption and smarter policy can reduce urban smog and climate pollution.
See Green Prophet’s coverage of EV policy and options:
Israel’s EVs & taxation rethink,
Lebanon’s EV Electra.
Power up renewables
Solar and wind displace combustion, cutting NOx and PM2.5 — a direct brain-health win alongside climate action.
Regional snapshots:
Wind farms of the Middle East,
Masdar–Bahrain wind buildout,
Extreme heat & Israel’s solar share.
Get outside: “forest bathing” and brain health
A forest in Nipissing, Ontario near Bearland
Time in nature is linked with lower stress and improved cognition; experimental work shows 90-minute nature walks reduce rumination and dampen maladaptive neural activity.
Local inspo and guides from Green Prophet:
Green self-care & forest bathing,
Overcoming nature phobias,
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