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As climate change brings more wildfires to the western United States, a rare fungal infection has also been on the rise. Valley fever is up more than sixfold in Arizona and California from 1998 to 2018, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Valley fever causes coughs, fevers and chest pain and can be deadly. The culprit fungi, members of the genus
Coccidioides, thrive in soils in California and the desert Southwest. Firefighters are especially vulnerable to the disease. Wildfires appear to stir up and send the soil-loving fungi into the air, where they can enter people’s lungs.
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IMAGE: The Marine Biological Laboratory s Swope Center, which includes campus dining halls. A new study by MBL Ecosystems Center scientists examines ways to reduce the nitrogen footprint of smaller institutions,. view more
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WOODS HOLE, Mass. Nitrogen is an element basic for life plants need it, animals need it, it s in our DNA but when there s too much nitrogen in the environment, things can go haywire. On Cape Cod, excess nitrogen in estuaries and salt marshes can lead to algal blooms, fish kills, and degradation of the environment.
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Industrialised countries finance new coal-fired power plants in Asia on a grand scale
A new MCC study reveals the global capital flows behind the most important climate killer – and outlines counter strategies.
The Paris Climate Agreement not only incorporates the temperature targets of 1.5 and 2 degrees as the maximum tolerated global heating, it also explicitly targets financial flows with the goal of making them “consistent with a pathway towards low greenhouse gas emissions”. Nevertheless, coal-fired power generation, which releases a particularly large volume of CO
2 and is still booming in Asia, is fuelled by substantial funding from western industrialised countries, in the form of loans, loan guarantees, or investments in corporate bonds and shares. The extent of these financial flows is now revealed in a study by the Berlin-based climate research institute MCC (Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change). The study ha
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