This blog is run by Xelyn (X) and Yilan (Y), NUS students taking the module GE3246: Environmental Pollution under Prof. David Taylor. We will post interesting insights and articles relating to how pollution affects humans on a weekly basis. A little bit about our blog name – POLLUTO. When you say it quickly enough, it… Read more

Chemical weapons have a part to play in causing marine pollution. This can be seen in 9/11 whereby pollution arose from the burning of the World Trade Centre buildings, which were made up of toxic metals, asbestos, dioxins, among others.  Other than this, chemical weapons also contribute to marine pollution. Some of them were dumped… Read more

It’s a bit late for a Halloween-themed post, and anyway the title is a bit misleading. It’s not really bones I’m going to talk about, but the body in general — truly ‘the body’ as a whole. Today’s gonna be about epigenetics. I came across two really fascinating articles about the relationship between epigenetics and air… Read more