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IMAGE: This study provides the most detailed mapping yet of how summer temperatures in 20 urban centers in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas affected different neighborhoods between. view more
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Acres of asphalt parking lots, unshaded roads, dense apartment complexes and neighborhoods with few parks have taken their toll on the poor. As climate change accelerates, low-income districts in the Southwestern United States are 4 to 7 degrees hotter in Fahrenheit on average than wealthy neighborhoods in the same metro regions, University of California, Davis, researchers have found in a new analysis.
This study provides the most detailed mapping yet of how summer temperatures in 20 urban centers in California, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico and Texas affected different neighborhoods between 2018 and 2020. The researchers found even greater heat disparities in California than in other states. The
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+ February 16, 2021 A small tropical multiple island country like ours has provided Filipinos some natural advantages against Sars-CoV-2 infection.
Environmental difference appears to be the sole intervening factor.
Historically, it has been established that weather and climate significantly influence the transmission of infectious diseases like Covid-19. Wind speed and rainfall can change the way these diseases are transmitted. Temperature and humidity can change a Filipino’s susceptibility to the coronavirus. Meanwhile, all of the above factors can change the survival rate of a virus in the environment.
Two Australian researchers Hannah McClymont and Wenbiao Hu from the Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane reported their findings in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health last month.
Alanna Smith’s dedication to her sport is profound. Just listening to the elite high school track star explain her training schedule is exhausting. Yet no matter how hard she trains, if she has to compete against biological males, she stands no chance of winning.