Sonia Millsom is the relatively new CEO at Oxeon, which became the dominant executive search (headhunter) firm in digital health over the past decade or so. The company was built…
Day: October 19, 2023
There’s Almost No Research on the Health Impact of Plastic Chemicals in the Global South
This story was produced in partnership with the Pulitzer Center’s Ocean Reporting Network. Some 13,000 chemicals are associated with plastic production, of which only 7,000 or so have been investigated…
What does recent temperature data mean for the Paris Agreement 1.5°C goal?
In mid-2019 I posted a global temperature analysis that showed how we might have a first 1.5°C year sooner than many were imagining. This built on a 2016 story I…
Camila Madeiros: What are you doing in a place like this? Connecting plants’ climate preferences with functional traits
Camila Medeiros—a post-doc at University of California Los Angeles, USA—presents her work ‘Predicting plant species climate preferences on the basis of mechanistic traits’. She discusses the connection between traits and…
Cornwall community partner helps keep furry bellies full
Since 2018, Walmart Logistics Canada in Cornwall has been donating food and pet supplies to the Ontario SPCA and Humane Society to help animals in need. Today, we want to…
Данные об авариях в нефтегазовой отрасли Огайо усиливают опасения по поводу бурения в государственных парках
Public records show Ohio regulators log hundreds of incidents each year dealing with chemical releases related to the oil and gas industry. Such events raise critics’ concerns about plans to…