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The Loss of Trees Has Had Devastating Consequences. Here’s How We Can Still Create a Sustainable Planet
Viewed from outer space, Earth is a remarkable, vibrant planet—blue waters, majestic mountains, vast areas of green forests. It’s an inspiring, stunning display of all the perfect elements to support the billions of diverse life-forms who call this planet home. But the view from the surface offers a starkly different story. Colonialism and the industrial…
COVID-19 Is Now the Deadliest Pandemic in American History
Like the Spanish flu, the coronavirus may never entirely disappear from our midst
FDA Panel Recommends Against Following White House Plan for Booster Doses for All
But it recommended third doses for the elderly and other at-risk groups
Some Vaping Companies Are Turning to Synthetic Nicotine to Outsmart the FDA
Troy Johnston swears he wanted to play by the rules. Johnston, who owns the Texas-based vaping company VaporSalon, tried to follow the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) guidelines for selling e-cigarette products, which required all manufacturers to file paperwork known as premarket tobacco product applications (PMTAs) by Sept. 9, 2020. In these applications, companies…
Moderna’s Case for a COVID-19 Booster Shot: Its Vaccine Protection Wanes by 36% After 12 Months, According to a New Study
In a preprint study, the company announced the latest results from its ongoing study of vaccine efficacy
Inspiration4 Makes Space History With First-Ever All-Civilian Orbital Launch
In the end, the camping trip up the flank of Mt. Rainier that the Inspiration4 crew made back in April may have done more than anything else to prepare them for tonight’s successful launch into Earth orbit, at 8:02 p.m. ET from pad 39A at Cape Canaveral, Florida. Even the day before the launch, at…
75% of the Young People Around the World are Frightened of the Future Because of Climate Change
Growing up in the emerging reality of the climate crisis is taking its toll on young people’s mental health. According to a global survey and peer-reviewed study soon to be published in Lancet Planetary Health, a scientific journal, 75% of young people think the future is frightening and 45% say climate concern negatively impacts their…
The Gates Foundation’s 2021 Report Shows That Childhood Vaccinations Dropped During the Pandemic—But There’s a Bright Side
This time last year, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation warned of a grim potential side effect from the COVID-19 pandemic: its disruptions to routine medical care could erase 25 years of progress on childhood vaccination, setting back global health by decades. The 2021 installment of the foundation’s annual Goalkeepers report, which details progress on…
COVID-19 Vaccine Boosters Are Not Necessary Yet, Say Top Health Officials
A group of public health officials say there isn’t strong evidence for booster doses yet
Why a Warming Arctic Has the U.S. Coast Guard Worried About the Rest of the Country
One of the perks of going out on a U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker in the Arctic is something called Ice Liberty. Ports are few and far between when you’re north of the Arctic Circle, so instead of shore leave, Coastguardsmen and women will locate a large slab of floating ice, cordon off a safe area,…
What 9/11 Survivors and First Responders Have Taught Us About Public Health in the 20 Years Since the Attacks
Dr. David Prezant was knocked fully airborne at 9:59 on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. He didn’t see the impact coming, but he felt it when it hit—and it nearly killed him. Little more than an hour earlier, Prezant, then the deputy chief medical officer of the Fire Department of New York, was headed…