After last week’s catastrophic flash flooding caused hundreds of deaths and an estimated $5 billion of destruction in Nepal, some board members of the UN’s new loss and damage fund…
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Decades after 9/11, toxic dust and PTSD may be accelerating brain aging among first responders
Hundreds of first responders have told me they remember exactly how they felt during the World Trade Center attacks, even 25 years on. They tell me that they remember not…
From Belém to Antalya – gains, gaps and challenges for a new Just Transition Mechanism
Could a new mechanism to help countries transition to a cleaner, safer and fairer world be one of the main deliverables from the COP31 climate summit in Türkiye this November?…
LZ Sees Surprising Result in Search for Dark Matter
Newswise — The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment (LZ) – supported by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Science – has recorded a single particle interaction that researchers have great difficulty explaining…
9,000-year-old mining workshop unearthed at Çayönü Hill
Archaeologists excavating one of Türkiye’s most important Neolithic settlements have uncovered an approximately 9,000-year-old mining workshop, providing striking new evidence of specialised copper and malachite production in prehistoric communities. The…
Two astronauts replace ISS camera and docking aid on 6th-ever all-female spacewalk (video)
Two astronauts replaced a spacecraft docking aid and a video camera during a successful spacewalk outside of the International Space Station on Tuesday (Sept. 1). NASA astronaut Jessica Meir and…
LZ Sees Surprising Result in Search for Dark Matter
BYLINE: Lauren Biron Newswise — For the better part of a century, people have been trying to understand dark matter. This invisible substance makes up roughly 85% of the mass…
Preventing wildfires must be the priority
Gill Einhorn is head of the Forest Future Alliance and Natalie Çilem is community lead of the Global Wildfire Leadership Network. Wildfires have devastated communities across the world this summer,…
Here’s how to navigate your options and find the right clinician
As a mental health nurse practitioner who sees patients both in person and via telehealth, I’m often struck by just how many of my patients would not have received any…
