Later this year, a handful of people with a rare eye condition will receive a novel injection that is designed to quite literally turn back time. Nonarteritic anterior ischemic optic…
Day: March 11, 2025
Health Care in Abundance
By KIM BELLARD A recent report from Moody’s Analytics, by chief economist Mark Zandi, had an eye-opening fact: the top 10% of earners in the U.S. – those who make…
Majority of the World’s Population Breathes Dirty Air
BENGALURU, India — Most of the world has dirty air, with just 17% of cities globally meeting air pollution guidelines, a report Tuesday found. Switzerland-based air quality monitoring database IQAir…
Mariana Campagnoli: What characteristics make frugivores good seed dispersers in a diverse neotropical savanna?
In our latest post, Mariana Campagnoli gives us a bite of the fascinating fruit to seed dispersal system of the Cerrado ecosystem in Brazil. Through their latest paper “Plant and…
Mariana Campagnoli: Quais características tornam animais frugívoros bons dispersores em uma diversa savana Neotropical? (Portuguese)
Em nosso último post, Mariana Campagnoli nos dá uma mordida no fascinante sistema de dispersão de frutas para sementes do ecossistema do Cerrado no Brasil. Por meio de seu último…
Bird Flu: What you need to know to project your cats!
Respiratory diseases are very common in cats, and shouldn’t be an immediate cause for alarm. However there is an emerging disease coming- H5N1, better known as Bird Flu. This started…
The Pandemic Turns 5. We Are Still Not Prepared for the Next One
It’s hard to believe it’s been five years since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since 2020, the disease has killed more than 1.2 million Americans—more than in any other…
How closing the ‘spark gap’ can boost heat pump adoption
For most U.S. homes , heat pumps are a no-brainer: They can lower energy bills and eventually pay for themselves all while slashing carbon emissions. But the economics don’t work…
Florida is now a solar superpower. Here’s how it happened.
Last May, Florida enacted a law deleting any reference to climate change from most of its state policies, a move Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis described as “restoring sanity in our…