Nature is not healing
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Dolphins did not return to cleaner canals in Venice, Italy this year. Nor was the critically endangered Malabar civet spotted on the streets of Kerala, India. And, contrary to one meme, there definitely were not dinosaurs in Times Square. Most of the memes that claimed “nature is healing” while COVID-19 shut down business around the world were misleading or just a joke to lighten up a heavy year. The reality is, even if it managed to keep people holed up for parts of the year, the pandemic is not leaving us with a healthier planet.
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IMAGE: Tabular icebergs can be as large as 1,000 square kilometers (386 square miles) and 100 stories tall in total view more
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Some icebergs that break off of Antarctica are massive - the size of New York City - but previously these floating cities of freshwater were largely ignored in climate models. A new study by scientists at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and the University of North Carolina Wilmington (UNCW) has provided the first-of-its-kind model for how these icebergs decay as they drift around the frozen continent.
Funded by the National Science Foundation, the findings published December 16 in
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Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist Kim Prather and UC San Diego infectious disease specialist Dr. Robert Schooley joined our livestream series Voice of San Diego at Home last week to share what they’ve learned after studying the virus for months and how we can better protect ourselves.
A health care worker with Family Health Centers of San Diego checks in patients at a coronavirus testing center in Chula Vista. / Photo by Adriana Heldiz
Local officials need to follow the science if they want to get out of the current stay-at-home order and stay out of it, Scripps Institution of Oceanography scientist Kim Prather told Voice of San Diego recently.