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

Grist

If this is a biological response, imagine what’s happening in places like India and Africa where the heat can get to an unbearable 130 degrees Fahrenheit,” Basu remembers thinking. Ana Bonell, a researcher at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, studies heat and birth outcomes in western Africa and Pakistan.

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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. We’ve emitted close to 1.5 We’ll be locked in to whatever temperatures we’re experiencing when we get to zero.

Policy 64
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Can Asia’s infectious disease-producing wildlife trade be stopped?

Grist

Conservationists have also leapt at the opportunity to advance their battle against the global wildlife trade, which is driven largely by China , where rare and endangered species are trafficked as both medicine and luxury food. Eating exotic species is about people showing on social media that they are cool.”.

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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.”.

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Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

EDF + Business

Areas of interest: Personalized medicine, Bioinformatics, Public health policy, Environmental sustainability, Sanitation, Water, Ecology, Biodiversity, and Science education and communication. Leisure activities: Biking, Board Games, Traveling, Hiking, Brewing(coffee and beers), and Books (science and philosophy). Babatunde possesses a Ph.D.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

Hurst’s causes outside Amazon include board positions with Stolen Youth, an organization dedicated to eradicating sex trafficking; as well as with the roundtable for sustainability that’s part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Ellen Jackowski, Chief Sustainability and Social Impact Officer, HP Inc. . For HP Inc.,