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Countering climate change: How cities are becoming more climate resilient

Wed, 2024-11-20 09:50 — mike kraft
Five ways that cities are adapting to extreme heat Heat waves are more frequent and more intense, and city dwellers are being hit hardest. Here's how cities are becoming more resilient. Brian Banks Corporate Knights

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Opinion: Improving builldings and infrastructure to strengthen resilience to climate changes

Wed, 2024-11-20 09:34 — mike kraft
Mitigation and adaptation: Building urban resilience to climate risks The challenges ahead are daunting, but we have the tools, data and collective responsibility to act decisively. With bold but science-based action, we can build a future that is both sustainable and resilient. For the international community, the time to act is now. Fang li,CGTN CGTN

 

 

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Economic burden of long COVID greater on women --studies

Tue, 2024-11-19 17:25 — mike kraft
Two studies describe economic burden, sex differences of long COVID Long COVID can cause substantial economic loss and missed days of work, and it can strike women more often than men—possibly because women have increased expression of an RNA gene implicated in autoimmunity—according to two new studies. CIDRAP

 

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Analysis: Understanding the COVID-19 pandemic -- study and 17 charts

Tue, 2024-11-19 11:47 — mike kraft
17 key charts to understand the COVID-19 pandemic The pandemic has resulted in over twenty million deaths. In this article, we review the key insights from global data on COVID-19. Our World in Data
 

 

 

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Analysis: How climate change prompted dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves--new studies

Mon, 2024-11-18 10:44 — mike kraft
Climate crisis to blame for dozens of ‘impossible’ heatwaves, studies reveal Exclusive: Analyses are stark evidence of how global heating is already supercharging deadly weather beyond anything ever experienced by humanity The Guardian
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Health agencies warn of measles surge and decline in vaccinations as Trump nominates vaccine-skeptic RFK Jr to head U.S. health agency

Mon, 2024-11-18 10:02 — mike kraft
CDC and WHO warn of rise in measles and decline in vaccinations The CDC and WHO teamed up to warn the world about a concerning explosion in measles cases, suggesting that drop off of vaccine rates is largely to blame Maiya Focht Daily Mail

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Since the Covid pandemic, the number of people skipping vaccinations has been increasing. The new report found only 83 percent of people worldwide in 2023 got the measles vaccine - mostly unchanged from a record low in 2021. 

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Four global policies could eliminate >90% of plastic waste and 30% of linked carbon emissions by 2050 --study

Fri, 2024-11-15 11:31 — mike kraft
Study finds four global policies could eliminate >90% of plastic waste and 30% of linked carbon emissions by 2050 A study released in Science determines that just four policies can reduce mismanaged plastic waste—plastic that isn't recycled or properly disposed of and ends up as pollution—by 91% and plastic-related ... University of California - Santa Barbara Phys.org

A study released in Science determines that just four policies can reduce mismanaged plastic waste—plastic that isn't recycled or properly disposed of and ends up as pollution—by 91% and plastic-related greenhouse gases by one-third. ...

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Analysis: Impact of Trump's climate policies 'recoverable'. climate change group estimates

Fri, 2024-11-15 11:11 — mike kraft
Researchers say impact of Trump's climate policies 'recoverable' US president-elect Donald Trump's expected climate rollbacks will likely have a "small" impact on global warming, as long as other countries resist the temptation to slacken their own carbon-cutting efforts, ... Kelly MACNAMARA Phys.org

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In a new analysis of countries' climate plans, the Climate Action Tracker (CAT) project said Trump's potential retreat from the green transition could increase global temperatures by around 0.04C by the end of the century.

Bill Hare of Climate Analytics, one of the groups behind the tracker, said the effect could be "really quite small".

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Many long COVID patients face slim recovery odds as attention fades

Fri, 2024-11-15 10:41 — mike kraft

Many long COVID patients adjust to slim recovery odds as world moves on

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The best window for recovery is in the first six months after getting COVID-19, with better odds for people whose initial illness was less severe, as well as those who are vaccinated, researchers in the United Kingdom and the United States found

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Third dose of COVID vaccines protect frontline workers from long COVID --study

Fri, 2024-11-15 10:24 — mike kraft
COVID vaccines protect frontline workers from long COVID, data suggest The study was based on outcomes seen among essential workers with COVID-19 infection from June 2021 to September 2022. CIDRAP

A third dose of COVID-19 vaccine offered essential workers some protection from developing long COVID during Omicron variant predominance, according to a new study in The Journal of Infectious Diseases.

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