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As climate change intensifies, heat health risks from accelerated aging to bad decision-making grow worldwide. Here’s what you need to know. By Keerti Gopal Kevin Miller can get a person to the brink of heat stroke in 30 minutes.
John Galgiani has been waiting for this call. The 79-year-old physician is sitting on a chair in a side office at a health clinic in Phoenix, Arizona, long legs crammed under the table in front of him, hands folded at…
What is valley fever and how does it spread? Valley fever is an infection spread by a fungus that grows in the top few inches of soil in parts of the American West. It is transmitted when soil is disturbed…
This summer, national park employees and visitors were asked to do something highly unusual: report any signs that failed to make America look great. The effort, stemming from an executive order from President Donald Trump, has already resulted in the…
Migration minister Mike Tapp accuses Reform UK’s head of policy of ‘snowflakery’ Good morning. The Labour conference is over, the Conservative party one starts on Sunday, but both of them have got significant policy announcements out today. For Labour, Keir…
Edgemere Farm was born out of a climate catastrophe and community resilience. In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, volunteers transformed an abandoned, flood-damaged, city-owned plot into a lush organic garden. One day in mid-September, the half-acre site in Far Rockaway,…
The theme of this year’s Women By Women exhibition, Rooted in Resistance, is to showcase images of women defending their land and communities from destruction – by powerful people and corporations or the climate crisis. The pictures, taken by female…
JAKARTA — Even as UNESCO hails Raja Ampat as a global conservation model, nickel mining threatens to carve up its forests and coral reefs. On Sept. 27, UNESCO designated 26 new biosphere reserves across 21 countries — the highest number…
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch says her party would axe legally binding targets to cut emissions.
The IUCN, the global wildlife conservation authority, has established a new expert group that will help shape conservation priorities for a previously overlooked but vital group of organisms: microbes. In a recent commentary, the Microbial Conservation Specialist Group (MCSG), formed…