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Two new satellites to be launched this year to track Earth’s rising oceans
Jan 19, 2020 06:01Josh Willis, a climate scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, said in a statement “Global sea level is, in a way, the most complete measure of how humans are changing the climate.”
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Body temperature: What is the new normal?
Jan 15, 2020 12:43Body temperature can indicate and be influenced by many factors; lifestyle habits, age, and ambient temperature can all influence how our body disperses heat. Body temperature is also a marker of metabolic health.
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Debt will kill the global economy, but it seems no one cares
Jan 10, 2020 06:03The World Bank said emerging-market and developing economies (EMDEs) had pushed their borrowing to a record $55 trillion (£42 trillion) in 2018.
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People with mental illness less likely to get cancer screening
Jan 06, 2020 12:59Lead author Dr. Marco Solmi, a psychiatrist and researcher at the University of Padua in Italy and colleagues said: “Early cancer screening has been shown to reduce mortality, and delayed cancer diagnosis among people with mental illness could be one reason they are also more likely to die of cancer than the general population.”
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End of disastrous 2019, start of unpredictable 2020
Jan 01, 2020 10:52Wednesday marks the start of the year 2020 of the Christian Gregorian calendar that was ushered in at midnight in the West and in societies influenced by western culture.
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Climate crisis threatens a third of plant species, endangering food supply
Dec 26, 2019 05:01"Botanists have made a new census of terrestrial plants — only to find that with nearly 40% of them rare, or extremely rare, this may put food at risk", says Tim Radford, environmental activist in an article published in the Truthout website under the heading: “Climate crisis threatens a third of plant species, endangering food supply.”
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5G won’t give you cancer, but it is messing up weather reports
Dec 26, 2019 04:54Both 5G and weather monitoring rely on the electromagnetic spectrum to work. If 5G encroaches into the space the weather satellites need to work then it creates an interference that blinds weather monitoring systems.
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Plastics chemicals are disrupting our hormones, and the FDA is dragging its feet (2)
Dec 23, 2019 12:57"It is clear that the FDA is not using modern science in protecting the public from potentially toxic chemicals. It is also clear that BPA and other endocrine disruptors threaten to disrupt the status quo of toxic chemical regulation", says Lynne Peeples, environmental health reporter from Seattle.
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Low income and work stress contribute to link between education, heart disease, stroke
Dec 22, 2019 07:00Among healthy individuals, those with a low educational level have a higher risk of developing cardiovascular disease than those with a high educational level.
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Forget about water at your peril
Dec 21, 2019 12:34Even by climate change's destructive standards, water is in an increasingly grim bind. Droughts and monster floods are having devastating effects on the human civilisation, as the situations in much of Africa, Australia, and China attest.