Grist

JULY 20, 2023

“The link between climate change and expansion or change in mosquito distributions is real,” said Doug Norris, a specialist in mosquitoes at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Climate change presents another emerging threat, World Health Organization officials wrote in their latest global malaria report.

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Here are three I still hold a flame for: Industrial Symbiosis: in 2003, I stumbled on some WBCSD projects involving something called Industrial Symbiosis – the idea of one industry’s waste being seen as the raw material for another. But what about the opposite? What about those great ideas which have faded away?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The health threat posed by air pollution and its links to a raft of respiratory, cardio vascular and even mental health issues have long been understood, and landmark research today lays bare the extent to which the world's dirty air may be exacerbating the devastating coronavirus death toll. The remedy is to mitigate emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

It should act as a regular, proactive ‘health check’ to identify whether these elements are functioning as they should, whether they are at risk of failure, and whether enhancements could be made to improve the environmental protection measures in place and maintain regulatory compliance.

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Better Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Embracing Ancient Wisdom and Modern Insight to Improve Health Introduction Oh, food. We’ve always had an inherent understanding that the food we put into our bodies impacts our health. Undoubtedly, diet plays an important role in our health. I could talk about the role that food has played in our lives for ages.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In all, the investigation identified five factory-scale poultry companies in as many countries that have received financial support from the International Finance Corporation (IFC, the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank Group), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), or both since 2003, and that supply chicken to KFC.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 31, 2020

A 2003 study on the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) virus found that in regions with moderate air pollution, patients were 84% more likely to die relative to those living in regions with low air pollution. Exposure to air pollution can increase the likelihood of heart disease, chronic respiratory diseases, and diabetes.

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Grist

JANUARY 12, 2022

What they discover could have big implications for our world, and our health. And all she could find was Mims’ study from 2003. One of those questions: What this means for human health in a time of more frequent and severe wildfires? After the burn, Leda searched for studies about microbes living in smoke.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 4, 2020

Frank’s career in gas detection stretches back to 1982, and when he was first visited by a sales person from Alphasense in 2003, he was immediately impressed with the representative’s technical knowledge. “It These facilities can present a variety of potential hazards to human health. A car park installation.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

Today's report, titled Sweat not oil: Why sports should drop advertising from high carbon polluters , draws parallels between the sports sector's deals with polluters and the "once common and now-disgraced" sponsorship deals that used to be routine between sports clubs and tobacco companies, which were outlawed in the UK in 2003.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 17, 2020

Chan School of Public Health, told the Washington Post. During the severe acute respiratory syndrome [SARS] epidemic in 2003, researchers noticed a correlation between low air quality and regions with more fatalities. Northern Italy is one of Europe’s most polluted areas.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The new study used satellite data from 2003 – 2020 to determine the effect of fuel regulations on pollution from cargo ships. Aerosols in the atmosphere are obviously a concern given their potential to be injurious to health. The study was led by the University of Maryland’s Tianle Yuan and appears in Science Advances.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 31, 2021

the Watermark site was purchased in 2003 by Douglas Development Corporation for redevelopment and just recently welcomed its first residents in fall 2020. A new curtain wall system, operable windows and water-saving systems have helped the adaptive reuse project achieve high levels of energy efficiency.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

Increasing attention to the environmental and human health effects of PFAS is leading to the development of increasingly conservative (low) regulatory levels for PFAS in drinking water, soil, groundwater, sediments and surface waters4, 6-9. PFAS may then pose a risk of harm, depending on the site setting (i.e. Why a problem?

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2020

On February 24, the government initiated a permanent ban with a decree titled, “ Comprehensively Prohibiting the Illegal Trade of Wild Animals, Eliminating the Bad Habits of Wild Animal Consumption, and Protecting the Health and Safety of the People.”. But will the ban simply drive a long-thriving trade underground?

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Sustainability Consulting

OCTOBER 14, 2020

What does this mean for residents’ health? Adverse birth outcomes, including lower birth weights, have been observed among babies that were in utero during the 2003 southern California wildfires. Similar global studies suggest a link between wildfire exposure and poor health outcomes among newborns in Southeast Asia.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2020

Still, consider the global health crisis currently upon us as a warm-up act for a climate-changing world. For nearly two decades, health officials around the world have warned about the rise of infectious disease from a warming climate. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't; we'll likely never know for certain. Department of Defense.

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Less widely recognized threats, like dissolved metals and other molecular health hazards, lurk in runoff from industrial sources, home waste, and building materials. But the $300 billion global bottled water industry is propelled not just by actual threats to human health from municipal and shared drinking water sources.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2021

We realized that we could estimate the health of the overall environment by using birds, as they are an indicator of biodiversity. Short-term targets are valuable, but make sure that your goal-setting reflects the time it takes to make an impact on ecological health, which is measured in decades, not years.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. Vas" Narasimhan views this moment as the best to be alive, partly because science promises to advance health by unlocking genetic mysteries that have built up over 3.7 billion years of evolution.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

In January 2003, Tropical Cyclone Delfina dropped heavy rains over Malawi and Mozambique, causing devastating flooding. The floods lasted 47 days, killing 23 people and displacing some 400,000.

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Business Green

APRIL 8, 2021

In a subsequent speech , he remarked presciently that it was "not an exaggeration to say that one of the greatest challenges facing us as we move towards the millennium is that of reconciling environmental health and transport policies". Notably, he was the only member of the shadow cabinet to vote against the war in Iraq in 2003.

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Business Green

JUNE 16, 2021

Every five years the Climate Change Committee (CCC) conducts a root-and-branch review of the UK's preparedness for escalating climate impacts, such as heatwaves, floods, storms, droughts, coastal erosion, and their threats to public health, food security, power supplies, homes, offices, and infrastructure.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2020

“With over 4 million acres burned and more than 10,000 structures destroyed or damaged this season alone, advances in both wildfire science and technologies that can increase resilience or help harden the grid against the impacts of climate change are becoming even more critical for the health and safety of all Californians.”

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 10, 2024

She was also the director of London Luton Airport (1999-2003), and a director of pro-European pressure group Britain in Europe (2002-2004). Hunt has served in a number of ministerial roles, including as a parliamentary under secretary for the Department of Health, the Department for Work and Pensions, and the Ministry of Justice.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The root-mean-square error (rmse) is a measure of the model uncertainty, by calculating the mean absolute differences between the yield values predicted by the model and the final yield values for the historical runs of 2003-2021. Figure 1b, Time series image of the US National 2022 soybeans prediction throughout the growing season.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

In January 2003, Tropical Cyclone Delfina dropped heavy rains over Malawi and Mozambique, causing devastating flooding. The floods lasted 47 days, killing 23 people and displacing some 400,000.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 31, 2019

“The veggie sausages on health store shelves in the 80s were likely made with the same off-the-shelf meat processing equipment that the majority of plant-based meat companies use today , including headline-making, tech-driven startups.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

Founded in 2003, it is based in Portland, Oregon and Vancouver, Washington. The Factory Farming Awareness Coalition , an educational nonprofit committed to empowering people to save the environment, animals and their own health, is organizing this year’s Los Angeles Tofurky Trot.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 22, 2021

Many dimensions of that comprehensive landscape plan were completed in 2003 — including the addition of 315 olive trees. About a third of the entire grove’s trees require special care to bring them back to health. Inhabitat: What’s included in the new Barnsdall Olive Grove Initiative?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 22, 2021

Those levels are more than 400 times the protective health limits designated by the U.S. But Railroad Commission reports, such as one 2003 inspection , indicate that the waste is not always making it into the salt cavern, and rather Lotus “is only using the entire facility plant and decon facility for storage.”.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

What’s worse is that most of these assets haven’t been digitized, providing no visibility into real-time asset health and lifecycle status.    Assets are either 1) replaced only when faults and outages occur or 2) replaced without knowledge of the underlying health status of the asset.

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Grist

APRIL 20, 2022

“The main barriers to addressing these threats include the lack of site-specific data to inform the development of solutions, and the lack of funding to implement repairs and proactive solutions,” Max Neale, senior program manager for the Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium, wrote in an email. “We

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Earth Gratitude

AUGUST 27, 2017

Support freedom of health care choices to women and all citizens. Work to provide health coverage to everyone, while also seeking ways to reduce the costs, without denying people with pre-existing conditions their access to treatment. has been embroiled in since 2003. . has been embroiled in since 2003.

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Business Green

APRIL 18, 2022

The research is clear: to improve health outcomes, meet climate targets and create more liveable cities , reducing car use should be an urgent priority. But long car commutes can quickly wipe out such emissions savings, so living close to work is still the best option. No silver bullet solution.

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Earth Gratitude

APRIL 23, 2016

Deepak Chopra is a bestselling author and the founder of the Chopra Foundation, which is dedicated to improving health and well-being, cultivating spiritual knowledge, expanding consciousness and promoting world peace to all members of the human family. About Deepak Chopra, M.D.:

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. Addressing health equity is a special focus area for Narasimhan, who cut his teeth as a public health doctor addressing malaria and HIV in developing nations. billion years of evolution.

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