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Cooling a hidden threat for climate change and sustainable goals, says Oxford study

Envirotec Magazine

Past research suggests that growing international demand for cooling has the potential to drive one of the most substantial increases in greenhouse gas emissions in recent history. A new study, led by the University of Oxford and published on 19 October in Nature Sustainability , sets out a framework for delivering sustainable cooling.

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AstraZeneca to power UK sites with biomethane in decarbonization drive

Renewable Energy World

Future Biogas will build a renewable energy plant that will enable AstraZeneca to replace natural gas with biomethane, for heating and cooling at its sites. We’re proud to be working in partnership with innovative organizations like Future Biogas to enable the sustainable discovery, development and manufacture of medicines and vaccines.

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Specialty Chemical Production, Use, and Disposal: 5 Practices for Sustainability

The Environmental Blog

Chemicals also treat water, so it’s safe to drink and make medicines into easily digestible forms such as tablets or capsules. For example, using high-efficiency boilers and cooling water pumps can reduce water use throughout manufacturing. It plays a significant role in keeping facilities clean and cooling materials and equipment.

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Synterex: Clinical Service Provider That Gives Back to the Environment and Society

Green Business Bureau

The medicines that Synterex writes about come from a wide variety of therapeutic areas such as allergy, cancer, vaccines, nervous system disorders, and rare diseases. Every day, Synterex employees work with the hope of helping to get medicines to patients who need them to improve their quality of life.

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Report: It’s time for the U.S. to research solar geoengineering

Grist

It’s possible that the dangers will reach a critical juncture where the world may want to consider another tool with the potential to save millions of lives: solar geoengineering, also described by scientists with the more careful and lengthy phrase “ climate intervention strategies that reflect sunlight to cool the earth.”.

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Pediatricians say climate conversations should be part of any doctor’s visit

Grist

She and her family were living in Charlottesville, where Ahdoot is an assistant professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine. Because their bodies cool themselves less efficiently than adults, children remain more susceptible to heat-related illness as they grow. There was a heat wave.

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September forage of the month: elderberry elixir

Low Impact

In this recipe, the added spices, port and brandy give it warming properties, and make it a truly delicious medicine. Lid, label and store out of direct sunlight, somewhere cool and dry, for a month to six weeks before straining and re-bottling. It contains many vitamins and minerals, being especially high in vitamin C.