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Mosquitos are moving to higher elevations — and so is malaria

Grist

Researchers have documented the insects making their homes in higher places that are typically too cool for them, from the tropical highlands of South America to the mountainous but populous regions of eastern Africa. A recent Georgetown University study found them moving upward in sub-Saharan Africa at the rate of 21 feet per year.

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How Fossil Fuels Are Being Used To Reduce Carbon Dioxide Emissions

R-Squared Energy

What are the logistics of moving LPG into a developing country in central Africa, for example? And the analogy I like to use is I’ve travelled all over the world and I’ve travelled to villages across Africa. In 2004, over 90% of homes used kerosene for cooking. So, across Africa, for instance, it was about 5%.

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The disease after tomorrow

Grist

Many of us have spent the last two-and-a-half years worried about the health risks posed by other people. As the climate warms, more health risks will come not only from other people, but increasingly from the environment around us. The question remains whether we will be prepared.”. Since 2014, cases of the virus in the U.S.

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The Life and Death of a Pioneering Environmental Justice Lawyer

DeSmogBlog

When fierce storms appear on the horizon, the children get especially anxious and the elderly worry, which has impacts on their health. In 1987, while in law school at Harvard, Cole traveled to South Africa on a Harvard Human Rights Fellowship and volunteered for the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at Wits University.

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Top 10 Women of Solar

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

In this vision, GRID Alternatives , a non-profit solar installer, was formed in 2004. in Maternal and Child Health from University of California, Berkeley. She is a DrPH candidate at UCB, as well as Associate Director of Emergency Obstetric Research in West Africa for the Bixby Center for Population Health and Sustainability.

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Revealed: How Big Dairy Is Milking Net Zero

DeSmogBlog

Out of more than 200 groups currently listed on its website, 51 are from the United States and Canada, compared to only 11 from Africa. But the track record in East Africa of one of its founding partners and other supporters gives a flavour of what’s to come. But Global North groups dominate.

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ESG Reporting: What Is ESG Reporting and Why Is It Important?

Green Business Bureau

Social : Customer relations, employee relations, labor, employee wellbeing, community relations, health and safety, supply chains, human rights, and work-life balance. Evolving from SRI, in 2004, UN Secretary Kofi Annan asked major financial institutions to partner with the UN and the International Finance Corporation.

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