Portland experiences both extreme heat in the summer months and frequent nuisance flooding in the winter and spring, and that's only expected to worsen with climate change.
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UTSW Researchers Identify New Mechanism to Reduce Inflammation
UT Southwestern researchers have identified two proteins that act as gatekeepers to dampen a potentially life-threatening immune response to chronic infection.
Do You See What AI Sees? Study Finds That Humans Can Think like Computers
Even powerful computers, like those that guide self-driving cars, can be tricked into mistaking random scribbles for trains, fences, or school buses.
Those Midwestern Floods Are Expected to Get Much, Much Worse
The record-setting floods deluging the Midwest are about to get a lot worse.
New Perspective On Changing Travel Conditions In Arctic Communities
Global warming is transforming the way we live everywhere on Earth, but since the Arctic is warming twice as quickly as the rest of the planet, you would think that Arctic communities would be twice as affected by these temperature changes.
Costa Rica's Zero-Carbon Plan Could Be a Model for the World
Carlos Alvarado Quesada has heard all the naysayers before. In February, the 39-year-old president of Costa Rica committed to ridding the country of fossil fuels by 2050.