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What happens when extreme heat collides with a pandemic?
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The COVID-19 pandemic is on the verge of colliding with another public health threat: extreme heat, which kills more people in the US each year than any other w...
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The COVID-19 pandemic is generating tons of medical waste
Justine Calma//44 views/1 comments
Garbage contaminated with bodily fluids or other infectious materials is becoming a bigger concern for hospitals as they brace for a surge in patients sick with...
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How to debunk COVID-19 conspiracy theories
Justine Calma//46 views
In the whirlwind of news about the novel coronavirus pandemic, it can be hard to figure out what’s a scam or rumor and what’s vital information. The ways in whi...
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Air pollution could make the COVID-19 pandemic worse for some people
Justine Calma//30 views
Juliana Pino usually fights to push polluters out of the Little Village neighborhood of Chicago, an industrial area with a big Latino community. Now, amid the o...
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Mexican gray wolf numbers in the US soared in 2019
Justine Calma//29 views/1 comments
The US population of endangered Mexican gray wolves jumped by 24 percent last year, the US Fish and Wildlife Service announced yesterday. That’s exciting news f...
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Why we’re seeing some severe COVID-19 cases among younger people
Justine Calma//38 views
COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, has been much deadlier in older people, but more anecdotes are popping up of young, healthy people gettin...
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Dirty air cuts back California crops
Justine Calma//41 views
California loses up to $1 billion in crops each year because of air pollution, according to new research that looked at trends from 1980 to 2015. Table grapes —...
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Activists pick up their phones and move online as coronavirus curbs protests
Justine Calma//25 views/1 comments
Activists prepping for a rally that was supposed to take place yesterday on Wall Street thought they were being careful. They would stand a few feet away from e...
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Greta Thunberg urges climate protests to move online because of coronavirus outbreaks
Justine Calma//32 views
Greta Thunberg is calling on other young climate activists to avoid big protests and move their demonstrations online amid efforts to contain the novel coronavi...
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Coronavirus fears may affect how airlines curb their carbon emissions in 2021
Justine Calma//41 views
Efforts to stem the spread of the novel coronavirus are changing the way people work and play — and those changes are temporarily curbing greenhouse gas emissio...
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Scientists will soon be able to monitor air pollution hourly from space
Justine Calma//34 views
NASA, South Korea, and the European Space Agency are working together on a “virtual constellation” of space-based instruments to document global air quality in ...