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Biden’s Fossil Fuel Moves Clash With Pledges on Climate Change
WASHINGTON — Despite President Biden’s pledge to aggressively cut the pollution from fossil fuels that is driving climate change, his…
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How retroviruses become infectious
Viruses are perfect molecular machines. Their only goal is to insert their genetic material into healthy cells and thus multiply.…
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Recipe: Greek Tofu Salad with Tomatoes and Cucumbers
Combining low-fat feta and tofu makes for a lighter, healthier Greek salad. Serve this salad on lettuce leaves garnished with…
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A Century After the Tulsa Race Massacre, a Grocery Store Opens to Serve the Community | Civil Eats
Before Vanessa Hall-Harper won her District 1 City Council position in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 2016, she talked extensively with her…
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‘High on the Hog’ Celebrates Black Contributions to Global Food and Culture | Civil Eats
In the first episode of Netflix’s new docuseries, High on the Hog, host Stephen Satterfield meets a woman who runs…
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J.D. Power: Telehealth use boosts members’ satisfaction with health plans
Increased telehealth use under the pandemic is encouraging members to engage more with their health plans, according to a new…
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Where should Pittsburgh environmental groups focus to combat the city’s racist legacies?
When Betty Foster-Pinkley’s mom passed away in 2010, she took over responsibility for the family house in the East Hills. …
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Ascension posts $17M loss in Q3 but sees bright spots in patient volumes
Ascension hospital system posted a $17 million operating loss for the third quarter of the year, but the chain saw…
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How to Get Back to Exercising After Joint Replacement Surgery
Hip and knee replacements can get you back to an active life in no time. Know this, though: You are…
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This scorecard will tell you the environmental impact of your new H&M T-shirt
If you browse for a shirt on H&M’s website, you might now see a new scorecard—a little like a nutrition…
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E.P.A. to Modify Trump-Era Limits on States’ Ability to Oppose Energy Projects
WASHINGTON — The Biden administration on Thursday said it planned to revise a Trump-era rule that limited the ability of states…
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Opioids like ‘Lean’ Permeate Hip-Hop Culture, but Dangers Are Downplayed
Nykerrius Williams knows about the close relationship between hip-hop and opioid use. Williams, 27, an independent rapper from Gibsland, Louisiana,…
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Caring for an Aging Nation
Lydia Zuraw, Kaiser Health News and Carmen Heredia Rodriguez, Kaiser Health News USE OUR CONTENT This story can republished for…
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How to return to normalcy post-pandemic – NC Health News
After more than a year away from activities we once deemed normal, many of us are beginning the process of…
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In California, Nursing Home Owners Can Operate After They’re Denied a License
Aaron Mendelson, KPCC and Elly Yu, KPCC The pandemic has highlighted poor care in America’s nursing homes, where nearly 175,000…
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A Court Ruled Shell Is Liable for Its Contributions to Climate Change. What Happens Now?
In a ruling designed to have far-reaching effects on the world’s largest oil companies, a Dutch court has held Royal…
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How Many People Die When Polluters Exceed Their Limits?
Measuring air quality is inherently a measure of excess—any amount of toxic nitrogen oxides, ground-level ozone, and fine particulate matter…
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New research finds virus passed to wild salmon via fish farms
The transmission of a virus tied to kidney and liver damage in endangered Chinook salmon is being fuelled by the…
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Ottawa dollars can save B.C.’s old-growth forests
A coalition of conservationists is urging the B.C. government to use federal funds to end the province’s new war in…
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How the Texas Legislature could change the state’s power grid this session
Most Texans will likely have higher charges on their power bills for years to come to cover gas utilities’, electric…
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The Texas Grid Came Close to an Even Bigger Disaster During February Freeze
The Texas electric grid came within five minutes of a complete collapse in mid-February. The problem could have been much worse. A…
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Climate Ruling Could Force Big Change at Shell
To comply with a Dutch court order to cut carbon emissions, Royal Dutch Shell RDS.A -0.82% PLC may have to…
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Judge orders Uniontown to stop fighting $31M sewer fix
A $31 million project to repair the Black Belt city of Uniontown’s failing sewer system is poised to move forward…
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New microscopy method reaches deeper into the living brain: Imaging method poised to bring new insight into how the brain works in health and disease
Researchers have developed a new technique that allows microscopic fluorescence imaging at four times the depth limit imposed by light…
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Brazil’s Xingu River Basin feels the heat from Bolsonaro’s fiery rhetoric
An area six times larger than New York City has been destroyed by loggers, land grabbers and illegal miners from…
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Versatile coronavirus antibody may be starting point for broader-acting vaccines: A special type of antibody is produced in patients who’ve had COVID-19 as well as less-serious coronaviruses that cause colds
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, most people in the United States already had been sick with a coronavirus, albeit a…
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After Harris County was left out of latest round of Hurricane Harvey relief funds, George P. Bush asks feds for $750 million
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Key early steps in gene expression captured in real time: Capturing how RNA polymerase enzymes kick off transcription
On scales too small for our eyes to see, the business of life happens through the making of proteins, which…
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Mathematical model developed to prevent botulism
For years, food producers who make lightly preserved, ready-to-eat food have had to follow a set of guidelines to stop…
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Think like a virus to understand why the pandemic isn’t over yet – and what the US needs to do to help other countries
Kill every human on the planet. This is the first assignment I give students in my public health classes, filled…
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Biden officials condemned for backing Trump-era Alaska drilling project
Joe Biden’s administration is facing an onslaught of criticism from environmentalists after opting to defend the approval of a massive…
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Group set to receive $1M for new Allegan nature preserve
ALLEGAN — A conservation group announced it expects to receive $1 million from a settlement over Kalamazoo River pollution —…
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Court Orders Shell to Slash Emissions in Historic Ruling
For the first time in history, a court yesterday ordered a private company, rather than a government, to curb its…
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Nature funding must triple by 2030 to protect land and climate
Investment of about $8 trillion is needed by 2050 to help meet climate goals and stem the loss of plant…
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ENERGY TRANSITIONS: What Exxon, Chevron climate shake-ups mean for oil
Climate change activists scored historic victories at the two biggest U.S. oil producers yesterday, winning shareholder votes to shake up…
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Parasites as fountains of youth: Study finds infected ants live much longer: Life expectancy of tapeworm-infected worker ants is significantly higher than that of their uninfected nest-mates and resembles that of ant queens
Ant workers that are infected with a tapeworm live much longer than their uninfected nest-mates. Parasitic infections are usually harmful…
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Artificial neurons recognize biosignals in real time
Current neural network algorithms produce impressive results that help solve an incredible number of problems. However, the electronic devices used…
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NextGen Healthcare reports $557M in 2020 revenue with strong bookings growth in Q4
Ambulatory technology company NextGen Healthcare wrapped up its 2021 fiscal year with $557 million in revenue, up 3% from $540…
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Sri Lanka braces for beach pollution as vessel burns – Taipei Times
Three Indian vessels yesterday joined efforts to contain a major fire on a container ship off the Sri Lankan coast…
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What Jacksonville Can Learn From Nashville About Fighting Climate Change
Downtown Jacksonville. Photo courtesy WJCT Stay tuned in to our local news coverage: Listen to 90.7 WMFE on your FM…
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KHN’s ‘What the Health?’: The Return of the Public Option
Can’t see the audio player? Click here to listen on SoundCloud. You can also listen on on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, Pocket Casts…
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Investing 0.1% of global GDP could avoid breakdown of ecosystems, says UN report
The world needs to quadruple its annual investment in nature if the climate, biodiversity and land degradation crises are to…
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When cancer cells ‘put all their eggs in one basket’
Normal cells usually have multiple solutions for fixing problems. For example, when DNA becomes damaged, healthy white blood cells can…
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Escape from oblivion: How the brain reboots after deep anesthesia: Innovative experiment demonstrates the resilience of the healthy human brain despite deep general anesthesia
Millions of surgical procedures performed each year would not be possible without the aid of general anesthesia, the miraculous medical…
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Founders of Flatiron Health, Hims & Hers back $20M seed round in startup targeting chronic pain
A digital health startup has launched a new platform to provide opioid-free pain relief with the aim of reaching the 50…
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Causal mechanism of link between cancer and obesity
A review study led by Maria D. Sanchez-Pino, PhD, an assistant research professor in the departments of Interdisciplinary Oncology and…
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Sometimes, even 3-year-olds just want to fit in with the group: As young children develop they start to go along with the crowd, not just follow the leader
What makes preschoolers eat their veggies? Raise their hand? Wait their turn? “Because I say so” is a common refrain…
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Industry Voices—Delay in codifying ‘reasonable and necessary’ undermines healthcare enforcement
In a rule issued in the waning days of the last administration, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services sought…
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Naomi Osaka Won’t Do Interviews at the French Open for a Very Good Reason
Tennis superstar Naomi Osaka announced that she won’t take part in press interviews while at the French Open this year—even…
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‘Rescue mutations’ that suppress harmful DNA changes could shed light on genetic disorders
New insights into the ability of DNA to overcome harmful genetic changes have been discovered by scientists at the Wellcome…
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