May 30, 2024 | Salon.com
Bird flu has been confirmed in a third American this year, marking the second case linked to a Michigan dairy, according to the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services. This raises concerns that the virus, which in April appeared in dairy farms throughout the United States, may be spreading further among people, not just animals....
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May 29, 2024 | Salon.com
Losing your teeth is one of many folks’ greatest fears and is fodder for many disturbing nightmares. Replacing lost teeth is yet another dreadful experience, not just because visiting the dentist can be uncomfortable, but also due to the high cost and often invasive nature of such oral procedures.
But someday a drug could change that, making it easy to regrow one’s teeth just like a lost fingernail or your hair....
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May 29, 2024 | Salon.com
When scientists using NASA’s Cassini space probe discovered organic compounds in blocks of ice from Enceladus, they wondered if this meant the Saturnian moon might have the ingredients for life. Six years later, researchers working at research laboratories in Germany recreated conditions analogous to those on that distant frozen world....
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May 29, 2024 | Salon.com
It may be unusual to hear the ultra-rich argue for increasing government regulation of the economy, but billionaire Tom Steyer believes such a thing is necessary to stop the onslaught from climate change. Steyer may be best known for his longtime investment in climate solutions, as well as his decision in 2012 to step away from a highly successful investment fund he had founded....
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May 28, 2024 | Gun Control, Salon.com
Editors’ Note: This article discusses suicide and contains details about mental health crises. If you are having thoughts of suicide, or are concerned that someone you know may be, resources are available at https://www.speakingofsuicide.com/resources/ If you are in need of help, call or text 988 to reach the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline....
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May 27, 2024 | Salon.com
African savannah elephants (Loxodonta africana) are the world’s largest living land-based animals, reaching a height between 10 and 13 feet (roughly 3 to 4 meters) and weighing between 4 to 7 tons. One in particular, Doma, is the most dominant male in his group. Yet he seems to have developed this superiority as much through charisma and kindness as from sheer girth....
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May 24, 2024 | Salon.com
In Alaska, dozens of the state’s rivers are turning orange and climate change seems to be to blame.
According to a recent study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment, iron and other toxic metals are leaching into the water supply for 75 streams in Alaska’s Brooks Range. The scientists used remote sensing to determine that these substances began entering the river systems within the last 10 years, corresponding with a period when climate change caused increased warming and snowfall....
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May 24, 2024 | Salon.com
Marine scientist Sharon Gray lives on a catamaran off the Florida west coast. Even though her state’s governor, Ron DeSantis, recently signed a controversial law that effectively wipes references to climate change out of the state’s statutes, Gray deeply worries about global heating. As the cyclical La Niña weather pattern in the Pacific combines with rising sea surface temperatures (SST), Gray predicts a “devastating” hurricane will occur in summer 2024....
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May 23, 2024 | Salon.com
Antartica’s Thwaites Glacier is also known as the “Doomsday Glacier” because it could great contribute to sea level rise if it collapses. And new evidence suggests that’s exactly what’s happening.
Miles and miles below the surface, the glacier is destabilizing as ocean water rushes underneath its core structures. Scientists learned this thanks to high-resolution satellite radar data that shows Thwaites is being flooded with warm sea water, according to the study published in the journal PNAS....
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May 22, 2024 | Salon.com
A second dairy worker has tested positive for H5N1, the influenza A virus known as bird flu. The confirmed case involves a Michigan farmworker, the Michigan Department of Health announced on Wednesday. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the risk to the public remains low and that the patient recovered with mild symptoms....
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