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No Zika cases reported during Rio Olympics, W.H.O. says
2016-09-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
New York Times: No Zika infections were reported in Brazil during the Olympics, either among athletes or visitors, the World Health Organization said Friday. The international health agency convened experts this week to decide whether the Zika virus remained a public health emergency. They voted yes, they announced at a news briefing Friday, in part because new infections had been reported in Singapore and Guinea-Bissau. But one bright spot was the Olympics. Brazil presented data that the experts said had convinced...
Climate change will cause 2,50,000 deaths by 2030: WHO
2016-07-11 10:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Economic Times: Climate change will cause an additional 2,50,000 deaths from malaria, diarrhoeal disease, heat stress and under nutrition by 2030, a finding by World Health Organisation (WHO) has stated. The conclusion was drawn at a meeting held by the French government in Paris on July 8 to study actions taken to implement the Paris agreement in order to reduce health risks linked to climate change. Experts noted that climate change was already causing tens of thousands of deaths every year. This is in addition...
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How smoke from wildfires affects the health of those who live nearby
2016-07-07 00:51:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LA Weekly: This year's wildfire season is off to a dramatic and early start, and so is the worry about what that smoke is doing to our lungs. Big wildfires started burning in Southern California in early June, and since then, air-quality agencies have been warning residents that pollution from those Southern California fires could make breathing a risky pastime. Residents of cities as far away as Las Vegas are being advised to limit their exposure to the smoke from Southern California fires. Smoke from wildfires...
Kris Mayes hopes to block utility 'demand charges' on customers who go solar
2016-04-16 22:31:38| Oil & Gas - Topix.net
Saying electric companies appear to be trying to kill solar, a former state utility regulator is proposing a constitutional amendment to stop them from doing that. The initiative measure filed Friday by Kris Mayes would block regulated utilities like Arizona Public Service, Tucson Electric Power, UniSource Energy Services and a host of cooperatives from imposing "demand charges' on customers who generate their own power.
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There are 13 people resistant to inherited diseases - but we don't know who
2016-04-12 14:10:30| Biotech - Topix.net
Dr Stephen Friend, lead researcher of a study that found 13 incredibly lucky people in an anonymous genetic sequence database of 600,000. Somewhere in the world are 13 incredibly lucky people.
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