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Introduction Predictions of impending climate catastrophe have prompted policymakers across the world to declare a climate emergency and advocate to enact sweeping reforms to energy, transportation, and infrastructure. Without immediate action to rapidly and dramatically overhaul the energy system to eliminate the use of fossil fuels, these predictions envisage worldwide crises of food and water insecurity, habitability, extreme weather, and other shocks to civilization which would make the planet less habitable. Based upon these predictions, many Western governments have made avoiding this c...

Date Time Hayward Field sensors to advance UO wildfire smoke initiative New sensors installed recently at Hayward Field in advance of an international track and field event will help both athletes and UO researchers cut through some of the haze around air quality and wildfire smoke. The sensors are part of a broader initiative at the UO to use the World Athletics Championships Oregon22 as a catalyzing event to advance research and practice around wildfire smoke. The work will enable better detection, prediction, planning and response to smoke and support efforts by track and field event organ...

KLCC's Tiffany Eckert reports on a statewide survey on behaviors and beliefs around COVID-19. Page #3 from the study: COVID-19 Masking, Social Distancing and Vaccines: Results from a random sample of Oregon residents. Credit UO Institute For Policy Research and Engagement 638 people were surveyed--from both urban and rural parts of the state. Associate Professor Benjamin Clark authored the study and found 11% of respondents regularly gather, maskless, in large groups. “Some of these individuals don’t think the pandemic is as big a problem as it’s made out to be,” said Clark. “They...

UO finds ‘concerning’ coronavirus vaccine hesitance, urges more aggressive public health messaging Updated Dec 24, 2020; Facebook Share Nearly a quarter of Oregonians say they won’t get the coronavirus vaccine, a finding that University of Oregon researchers say should be a ‘clarion call’ for a more aggressive fight against disinformation. Vaccine skepticism runs deep in certain pockets of U.S. society, and particularly in Oregon – one of the few states to allow philosophical exemptions for school-age children whose parents don’t want them to get vaccinated for the measles, mum...

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