The Amazon rainforest is often called “the lungs of the world.” It produces oxygen and stores billions of tons of carbon every year. The Amazon rainforest covers more than 60% of the landmass of Peru. (USDA Forest Service photo by Diego Perez) Earth’s trees and plants pull vast amounts [Read more…]
The short answer, in my opinion, is unquestionably yes. Individuals may (or may not) have the right to refuse a vaccination. However, the rights of any individual in any society reach a limit where they impose a risk to other people, and this is especially the case with Health Care [Read more…]
Image shows a map of potential landslide risk output by NASA’s Landslide Hazard Assessment Model (LHASA) in June 2021. Red indicates the highest risk and dark blue indicates the lowest risk. (Credit: NASA) Every year, landslides – the movement of rock, soil, and debris down a slope – cause [Read more…]
Are you sick and tired of peeling forks off your head and car keys off your fingers? Are you suddenly a master of magnetism, capable of bending metal with your mind like the Marvel villain Magneto? Then you might be one of the imaginary “victims” of the coronavirus vaccine, according [Read more…]
When lockdowns during the coronavirus pandemic cut local nitrogen oxide emissions, the effect on ozone pollution was global and unexpectedly rapid. As the coronavirus pandemic slowed global commerce to a crawl in early 2020, emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx) – which create ozone, a danger to human health and to [Read more…]
Climate Change Shrinks The West’s Water by Lauren Sommer, NPR June 9, 2021 By almost every measure, the drought in the Western U.S. is already one for the record books. Almost half the country’s population is facing dry conditions. Soils are parched. Mountain snowpacks produce less water. Wildfire risk is [Read more…]
Saskatoon harbours one of the brightest lights on Earth. And, as a scientist in the midst of a global health crisis, Jake Pushie was drawn toward it. When the pandemic hit, Pushie was at the Saskatchewan Cerebrovascular Centre where he was studying the effects of strokes. As troubling signs began [Read more…]
When wildfire smoke blanketed Vancouver in September 2020, the effects were soon felt in the city’s emergency rooms. “We do see it at the peak of the wildfire season,” said Dr. Don Sin, a respirologist at St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver. Most people who are vulnerable to smoke’s effects are extra [Read more…]
Naomi Wolf banned from Twitter for spreading vaccine myths by David Connett, The Guardian June 5, 2021 The author Naomi Wolf has been suspended from Twitter after using it to spread myths about the pandemic, vaccines and lockdown. Wolf, who wrote the influential feminist work The Beauty Myth, holds staunch [Read more…]
A Single Fire Killed At Least 10% Of The World’s Giant Sequoias NPR June 3, 2021 SEQUOIA NATIONAL PARK, Calif. (AP) — At least a tenth of the world’s mature giant sequoia trees were destroyed by a single California wildfire that tore through the southern Sierra Nevada last year, according [Read more…]
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