SYDNEY, 13 December 2024 – Greenpeace Australia Pacific has dismissed Coalition leader Peter Dutton’s costings to build seven nuclear plants in Australia as a dodgy distraction from the fundamental unsuitability…
Day: December 12, 2024
Some Early Forms of Breast Cancer May Not Need Treatment, Study Says
Breast cancer is not a single disease but multiple ones, each carrying varying degrees of risk for endangering women’s health. In recent years, many researchers have been focused on DCIS:…
‘There’s Something Causing It.’ Trump Draws False Link Between Vaccines and Autism in TIME Interview
President-elect Donald Trump said in a new interview that he would consider altering childhood vaccination programs in the United States and questioned whether vaccines cause autism—a widely disproven claim. When…
The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society celebrates its 8,000th spay/neuter surgery in 2024
IMMEDIATE RELEASE Stouffville, ON (Dec. 12, 2024) – The Ontario SPCA and Humane Society is closing out 2024 with a milestone worth celebrating: over 8,000 spay/neuter surgeries performed this year!…
Adopted cat brings comfort at Hospice Muskoka
Animals are known to have a calming, positive effect on people during times of stress. For a long time, this was a frequent topic of conversation for staff at Hospice…
Alyssa Kullber: Aclimatación temporal de la tolerancia termal en árboles a lo largo del Río Hirviente en la Amazonía.
Sobre el artículo Es posible que las plantas tropicales sean particularmente vulnerables a las altas temperaturas asociadas con el cambio climático porque han evolucionado bajo condiciones relativamente estables y no…
Alyssa Kullberg: Seasonal acclimation of thermal tolerance in trees growing alongside the Boiling River in the Amazon
In our last post Alyssa Kullberg, postdoc at WSL in Lausanne, presents her work ‘Seasonal acclimation of photosynthetic thermal tolerances in six woody tropical species along a thermal gradient’. Here,…
Which state is rivaling California on EV leadership? Colorado
This story was originally published by Canary Media. California has long led the way on electric vehicles, but another Western state is challenging the Golden State’s top spot. Between July and…
Commentary: To keep the lights on, the Midwest needs an ‘all of the above’ power grid
The following commentary was written by Carrie Zalewski, former Chair of the Illinois Commerce Commission and currently vice president of markets and transmission at the American Clean Power Association; and…
A Health Economist to lead the NIH
By SAURABH JHA Early on in the COVID-19 pandemic a seroprevalence study from Santa Clara indicated that the viral spread was far greater than was believed. The study suggested that…