Climate & Health. Story. Sustainability. Collaboration.
A warmer climate is driving more incidents of wildfires. Wildfire smoke harms health. Climate change is a #publichealth crisis.
University of Maryland, BaltimoreNew research from @umsop's Zafar Zafari, PhD, found a 6-day wildfire smoke event in 2023 was associated with a ~20% increase in cardiopulmonary hospital events and an estimated $2.4M in hospital and societal costs. https://ow.ly/6jM350ZvSKA
Thoughtful piece abt #AI measuring farm animal pain. "...researchers argue that artificial intelligence-based pain detection systems could reduce animal welfare to only what algorithms can measure, which risks overlooking less easily detected conditions in industrial animal agriculture."
SentientA new wave of AI tools promises to change the way farm animal pain is detected, using cameras, microphones and machine learning to spot suffering before a human could. @epayne.bsky.social reports: buff.ly/zddjDoV
fossil fuels vs. wind & solar: "dinosaur" vs "above ground" energy
Ketan JoshiSomething I love doing is talking about fossil fuels as "19th century technology". Coal plants and gas plants are machines from CENTURIES ago. The combustion engine is silly. It gets people thinking about what modernity means but also, importantly, it makes fossil fuel guys mad online
long live the #library. ❤️ #booksky
Stephen Boisvert 🇨🇦 🟦⭐⭐⭐⭐🟦Public libraries within walking distance are one of the best things about living in a big city.
If a picture tells a thousand words, here are 20,000 words to depict the impact of #climate change on our world right now.
Simon Evans🔥🔥🔥Newspaper frontpages🔥🔥🔥