The 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron “Hurricane Hunters” have temporarily traded the mild climate of their home station, Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi, for chilly Reno, Nevada 1,800 miles away, in order to support atmospheric river reconnaissance,
Direct exposure to deadly fires increases the risk for mental health disorders
In 2018, a faulty electric transmission line ignited the Camp Fire in Northern California, ultimately consuming 239 square miles and several communities, including the town of Paradise, which was 95 percent destroyed. At least 85 people died.
Structures have been rebuilt, but some things are worse. In a paper published February 2, 2021 in the
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, scientists at University of California San Diego, with colleagues elsewhere, describe chronic mental health problems among some residents who experienced the Camp Fire in varying degrees.
Direct exposure to large-scale fires significantly increased the risk for mental health disorders, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression, the scientists wrote.
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Global emissions of a potent substance notorious for depleting the Earth s ozone layer - the protective barrier which absorbs the Sun s harmful UV rays - have fallen rapidly and are now back on the decline, according to new research.
Two international studies published today in
Nature, show emissions of CFC-11, one of the many chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) chemicals once widely used in refrigerators and insulating foams, are back on the decline less than two years after the exposure of their shock resurgence in the wake of suspected rogue production.
Researchers studied data on the atmospheric levels of the chemical CFC-11
This is a chlorofluorocarbon and was banned from global production in 2010
It is a potent greenhouse gas that can have the same impact as CO2 from a city
There was a spike in emissions from CFC-11 in 2018 that was tracked to China
The Chinese government shutdown the rule-breaking factory and made arrests with the new data confirming CFC-11 emissions are once again declining