Vermont Is Remaking Its Power Grid to Fight Climate Change

Visitors entering a code-locked central control room at Green Mountain Power (GMP)’s Colchester, Vt., headquarters instinctively lower their voices, whispering in deference to operators relaying orders from behind semicircular clusters of screens. It’s an intimidating space; one side of the black-walled room is taken up by a display showing a sprawling, yellow-lit maze of connection…

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India Aims to Boost Its Space Legacy With Latest Moon Rocket

The viewer’s gallery of the Satish Dhawan Space Center in India was a noisy place at 4:05 a.m. ET on Friday morning, July 14. Cries of “Bharat Mata ki jai” (Victory to Mother India) filled the hall, as outside, at a distant launchpad, the engines lit on a 14-story rocket carrying Chandrayaan-3, India’s third spacecraft bound for the moon. The rocket flew true, and less t…

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What Climate Change Has to do With The Looming UPS Union Strike

This story was supported by the Pulitzer Center.

These days, UPS driver Barkley Wimpee prepares for his daily route out of Rome, Ga., with the precision of a battlefield commander. He loads up his cooler with ice, and stocks it with sandwiches, a case of water bottles, and a couple of sports drinks. He girds himself with a bandana and some plastic bags: around midday,…

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Long COVID Research Needs a New Approach

The health outlook for Long COVID sufferers is no better today than it was when the condition was first recognized in early 2020. This has been attributed in large measure to the disappointing results of clinical research, particularly when compared to the magnitude of the problem. 

Now with hundreds of published results emerging from federally conducted or sponsored research, outrag…

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Tuberculosis Hits a 10-Year High

NEW YORK — The number of U.S. tuberculosis cases in 2023 were the highest in a decade, according to a new government report.

Forty states reported an increase in TB, and rates were up among all age groups, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Thursday. More than 9,600 cases were reported, a 16% increase from 2022 and the highest since 2013.

Cases declined sharply at…

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I Spent My Life Saving the Whales. Now They Might Save Us_1

More than fifty years ago, my team and I first discovered that whales sing to each other. Recordings we captured of the beautiful, evocative songs of the humpback whale captivated people all over the world. Whale song became the soundtrack for the “Save the Whales” movement, one of the most successful conservation initiatives in history. It led to the 1972 Marine Mammal Protection A…

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To Contain Monkeypox, We Should Learn From COVID-19 Response

Monkeypox and COVID-19 are different in many ways. Though relatively rare, monkeypox has been around for decades; indeed, it has become endemic to parts of central and western Africa. There is already a vaccine that can prevent infection and research to show that monkeypox typically spreads via close or prolonged physical contact with an infectious person or their bodily fluids—meaning, b…

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How Cuddly Comfort Objects May Help Adults with Anxiety

Kacie Willis, a 34-year-old audio producer in Atlanta, suffers from panic attacks with no known cause. She’s tried cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), anti-anxiety medication, mindfulness meditation, and CBD oil. Although some of these have provided relief, one coping mechanism has consistently helped her manage her anxiety, particularly at night: Kasey Kangaroo, a stuffed animal she&rsqu…

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What We Know So Far About BA.2.75.2, the ‘Most Resistant’ Variant to Date

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, health officials have warned that the biggest barrier to controlling the virus would be its ability to mutate into ever more infectious and dangerous forms.คำพูดจาก สล็อตเว็บตรง

The latest version raising alarms is an emerging subvaria…

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Brexit, weak global demand to hurt UK in 2020, industry warns

Official figures have shown that Britain’s economy is growing at the weakest annual pace since 2010, and industry leaders see little or no improvement in 2020, even if Prime Minister Boris Johnson wins re-election and secures a Brexit divorce deal by a Jan. 31 deadline.The CBI on Monday predicted economic growth of 1.3% this year and 1.2% in 2020, followed by a pick-up to 1.8% in 2021, assumi…

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