Grist

JULY 20, 2023

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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Meanwhile, the permafrost that Kivalina sits on and that forms the banks of the river that sustains their community is melting and eroding into the water, threatening their drinking water treatment system and creating potential health problems. An avid birder, he first went to South America to visit friends.

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Grist

JUNE 21, 2021

It’s worsening the spread of infectious diseases, like dengue across South America, increasing the possibility of global pandemics in the near future. In 2004, he approached the president of the Wilderness Medical Society about spearheading a new committee that would train more young doctors like himself. “I

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