The average picker now experiences 21 days each year when the daily heat index — a mix of air temperature and humidity — would exceed workplace safety standards.
Agricultural Pickers in US to See Unsafely Hot Workdays Double by 2050
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Mapping Moose Populations in Russia
Researchers using vegetation data to explain moose population dynamics run into a hidden variable and a possible signature of history.
Glacier Detachments: A New Hazard in a Warming World?
On the evening of 5 August 2013, a startling event occurred deep in the remote interior of the United States’ largest national park.
New Study Finds Lakes Have Tripled the Amount of Carbon They Bury in Response to Human Disruption of Global Nutrient Cycles
A new study led by Loughborough University has revealed that lake burial of organic carbon has increased three-fold over the last 100 years in response to human disruption of global nutrient cycles.
Experts at UTHealth Successfully Treat Severe Case of COVID-19 in 3-Week-Old Infant
In one of the first reported cases of its kind, a 3-week-old infant in critical condition recovered from COVID-19 due to rapid recognition and treatment by physicians from McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth).
Global Database for Water-Use Efficiency Compiled From Tree-Ring Data
Researchers from Swinburne and the University of California, Davis examined the carbon isotope composition of tree-rings to compile the first comprehensive global database for water-use efficiency
