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Heart-disease risk soars after COVID — even with a mild case
Feb 19, 2022 12:36Massive study shows a long-term, substantial rise in risk of cardiovascular disease, including heart attack and stroke, after a SARS-CoV-2 infection, according to an article published in the Nature.
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As crypto goes mainstream, its carbon footprint can’t be ignored
Jan 30, 2022 07:04The increasing popularity of cryptocurrency has environmentalists on edge, as the digital “mining” of it creates a massive carbon footprint due to the staggering amount of energy it requires.
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More than 400 weather stations beat heat records in 2021
Jan 13, 2022 11:53Maximiliano Herrera, watcher of extreme weather and a climatologist who has been compiling weather records for over 30 years, says last year likely to be in top five or six hottest in history.
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Immunity against Omicron from breakthrough infection could be a matter of timing
Jan 12, 2022 12:01Research from Japan suggests that COVID-19 vaccination followed months later by a breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infection offers greater protection against the Omicron variant than do closely spaced vaccination and infection.
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World’s top 2021 climate disasters cost nearly $200 billion: Study
Dec 30, 2021 11:14A new report shows that 2021 continued the trend of annual climate devastation worldwide that is costing the global economy hundreds of billions of dollars as planet-heating emissions unleash exactly the kind of damage scientists have warned about for decades.
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Why Omicron may be the final variant of concern?
Dec 29, 2021 06:59Even if highly contagious COVID-19 variant maximizes its potential, laws of biochemistry show the virus cannot keep improving indefinitely.
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Scientists say warmer winters can wreak as much havoc as hotter summers
Dec 19, 2021 06:49Warmer winters are happening across the globe, and can be drivers of catastrophic weather events and profound changes.
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Does the Omicron variant mean COVID is going to become more transmissible?
Dec 05, 2021 07:00In the case of coronavirus, there is also an obvious hole in the argument: transmission normally occurs before symptoms start or during the earliest stage of symptoms, meaning that severity of illness has little influence on the spread of the virus.
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The new variant is worrying – but it doesn’t change how we tackle COVID
Dec 02, 2021 06:37The only way to stop B.1.1.529 and other coronavirus mutations is through testing, masks, and getting vaccines to everyone in the world
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Cause of the pathetic plight of children worldwide
Nov 25, 2021 15:30Unfortunately, the modern world of science and technology which has drifted away from spiritual values, has become totally devoid of humanitarian tendencies, and begun to view children as objects of the carnal and commercial desires of the unprincipled adults.