A disease detective hopes to discover why British Columbia’s wild salmon continue to decline.
By Ann Thomas MD
Against the backdrop of the Discovery Islands, tucked in the Inside Passage between Vancouver Island and British Columbia’s mainland, the biologists spotted a school of salmon. They maneuvered their boat to encircle the fish with a net and pulled them aboard. But something was wrong. Some fish swam strangely at the surface and rolled over. As the researchers performed quick gill biopsies before releasing the fish, some died while still in the net. Their catch was a mixture of healthy-appearing pink and coho salmon but the juvenile sockeye salmon were long and skinny, a sign of malnourishment, some with cloudy eyes, others with their eyes popping out of their heads.
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Global climate models are significantly overestimating the savings from energy efficiency measures, meaning future energy demand projections have been understated and the emissions reduction targets set out in the Paris climate accord could be harder to achieve, according to a new paper by an international team of researchers
Economy-wide rebound effects such as consumers driving more miles when the price of gas drops, may erode more than half of the expected energy savings from improved energy efficiency, the analysis concludes in the May 2021 issue of Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews.
The analysis, led by researchers from the University of Leeds and the University of Sussex in the United Kingdom, is critical of modeling done by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and other groups. IEA defended its work in a statement, saying rebound effects are an essential part of our analysis.
President Biden, according to Swedish teen environmental protester Greta Thunberg, isn't doing enough to "treat the climate crisis like a crisis," accusing him of being "not nearly enough in step with the science" on the subject.
About 200 students at UMASS are now suspended after being caught partying. UMASS is also taking action to make sure students get COVID tested twice a week.