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‘How did we miss this for so long?’: The link between extreme heat and preterm birth

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Basu analyzed 60,000 summertime births — those taking place between May and September — from 1999 to 2006, across 16 California counties. Singh has reviewed a number of heat action plans created by city and state governments globally to improve heat advisory messaging or build cooling spaces and environments.

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Want to prevent California’s looming flood disaster? Grow a marsh.

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But as sea levels rise and the islands continue to subside, the costs of fortifying and maintaining the structures may exceed the value of the land and agricultural production behind them, says Alf Brandt, counsel to the State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon. Think of it as preventive medicine.

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