Remove Africa Remove Cooling Remove Health Remove Medicine
article thumbnail

Na’im Merchant Is Advancing a Blueprint for Equitable Carbon Removal Policy

Elemental Excelerator

trillion tons of excess CO2 into the atmosphere since industrialization, so even if we stop emitting CO2 by 2050, the planet won’t just cool right down. That is, if policymakers and innovators act quickly and equitably. We’ve emitted close to 1.5 And that could be really bad — especially for many countries in the Global South.

Policy 64
article thumbnail

Can Asia’s infectious disease-producing wildlife trade be stopped?

Grist

On February 24, the government initiated a permanent ban with a decree titled, “ Comprehensively Prohibiting the Illegal Trade of Wild Animals, Eliminating the Bad Habits of Wild Animal Consumption, and Protecting the Health and Safety of the People.”. But will the ban simply drive a long-thriving trade underground?

Medicine 128
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Why massive Saharan dust plumes are blowing into the US

Grist

A satellite captures a dust plume leaving Africa on June 19. The dust plume arrived in the Caribbean a few days after it left Africa. Here you can see one plume moving through the Caribbean, while another leaves Africa. You have this cool air underneath warm air, and then the atmosphere in that case is very stable.”.

Africa 93
article thumbnail

Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

EDF + Business

Prior to his current role he worked as scientist in a public health lab, and as post-doctoral fellow at the University of Southern California. Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication.

article thumbnail

25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

Boma Brown-West, Director of Consumer Health, EDF+Business. We want to call attention to how the biggest environmental impacts and the biggest health impact of products is really due to the products themselves and the creation and the use of a product," Brown-West noted at the time. LinkedIn | Twitter. LinkedIn | Twitter. For HP Inc.,