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'More than a mental health concern': Nationwide increase in suicides prompts new questions

Sat, 2018-06-09 08:49 — Kathy Gilbeaux

CLICK HERE - CDC - Suicide rising across the US

wjla.com - by Leandra Bernstein - June 8, 2018

The deaths of fashion designer Kate Spade and celebrity chef and author Anthony Bourdain put a spotlight on suicide in a week when new official statistics showing the rate of suicides in the United States is increasing were released.

Behind the deaths of two cultural figures is the fact that more than 120 Americans commits suicide every day, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . . .

. . . Across the entire country, the suicide rate increased by 25 percent from 1999 through 2016.

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Nipah Virus, Rare and Dangerous, Spreads in India

Thu, 2018-06-07 09:36 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Burying a victim of the Nipah virus in Kozhikode, southern India. There is no vaccine and no cure for the disease. Credit K.Shijith/Associated Press

The infection, an emerging threat, has killed virtually all of its victims so far in India.

nytimes.com - by Emily Baumgaertner - June 4, 2018

A rare, brain-damaging virus that experts consider a possible epidemic threat has broken out in the state of Kerala, India, for the first time, infecting at least 18 people and killing 17 of them, according to the World Health Organization.

The Nipah virus naturally resides in fruit bats across South and Southeast Asia, and can spread to humans through contact with the animals’ bodily fluids. There is no vaccine and no cure.

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CLICK HERE - EcoHealth Alliance - Analysis: EcoHealth Alliance’s FLIRT Program Identifies Areas at Risk of Further Nipah Virus Spread

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Hurricanes Are Lingering Longer. That Makes Them More Dangerous.

Wed, 2018-06-06 22:59 — Kathy Gilbeaux

Hurricane Harvey over the Gulf of Mexico in August 2017. The storm stalled over Texas and dropped nearly 50 inches of rain in some places. Credit NOAA/NASA GOES Project

CLICK HERE - STUDY - A global slowdown of tropical-cyclone translation speed

A new study shows that storms are staying in one place longer, much like Hurricane Harvey did last year.

nytimes.com - by Kendra Pierre-Louis - June 6, 2018

. . . A study published Wednesday in the journal Nature focuses on what is known as translation speed, which measures how quickly a storm is moving over an area, say, from Miami to the Florida Panhandle. Between 1949 and 2016, tropical cyclone translation speeds declined 10 percent worldwide, the study says. The storms, in effect, are sticking around places for a longer period of time.

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This mock pandemic killed 150 million people. Next time it might not be a drill.

Fri, 2018-06-01 21:41 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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A panel of experts play out a pandemic exercise on May 15 to demonstrate what policies and strategies the U.S. government should have in place. (Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security)

submitted by Mike Kraft - washingtonpost.com - by Lena H. Sun - May 30, 2018

A novel virus, moderately contagious and moderately lethal, has surfaced and is spreading rapidly around the globe . . .

. . . So began a recent day-long exercise hosted by the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security. The simulation mixed details of past disasters with fictional elements to force government officials and experts to make the kinds of key decisions they could face in a real pandemic.

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Antibiotic Resistance Crisis Worsening Because of Collapse in Supply

Fri, 2018-06-01 10:05 — Kathy Gilbeaux

An explosion at an antibiotics factory in China reduced the supply so significantly doctors in the UK warned that patients were being put at risk from reliance on less suitable alternatives. Photograph: Stanislav Krasilnikov/Getty Images

CLICK HERE - WHITE PAPER - Shortages, stockouts and scarcity - The issues facing the security of antibiotic supply and the role for pharmaceutical companies (22 page .PDF paper)

Patients given wrong dose, wrong type, or poor quality medicines because supply is waning

theguardian.com - by Nicola Davis - May 31, 2018

The antibiotic resistance crisis which is threatening to render many diseases untreatable is being fuelled not just by overuse of the drugs, but a fragile supply chain that is at risk of collapse, experts have warned.

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FBI Warns Russians Hacked Hundreds of Thousands of Routers

Sat, 2018-05-26 09:03 — Kathy Gilbeaux

FILE PHOTO: A man types on a computer keyboard in front of the displayed cyber code in this illustration picture taken on March 1, 2017. REUTERS/Kacper Pempel/Illustration

CLICK HERE - FBI Statement - FOREIGN CYBER ACTORS TARGET HOME AND OFFICE ROUTERS AND NETWORKED DEVICES WORLDWIDE

reuters.com - by Joseph Menn, Sarah N. Lynch - May 25, 2018

The FBI warned on Friday that Russian computer hackers had compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and could collect user information or shut down network traffic.

The U.S. law enforcement agency urged the owners of many brands of routers to turn them off and on again and download updates from the manufacturer to protect themselves. . .

. . . Infections were detected in more than 50 countries, though the primary target for further actions was probably Ukraine, the site of many recent infections and a longtime cyberwarfare battleground.

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RECORD-BREAKING OCEAN HEAT FUELED HURRICANE HARVEY

Fri, 2018-05-25 17:59 — Kathy Gilbeaux

An image of Hurricane Harvey taken by the GOES-16 satellite as the storm collided with the Texas coast. (Image courtesy NASA.)

Ocean evaporation matched up with massive overland rainfall, new analysis finds

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ucar.edu - May 10, 2018

In the weeks before Hurricane Harvey tore across the Gulf of Mexico and plowed into the Texas coast in August 2017, the Gulf's waters were warmer than any time on record, according to a new analysis led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR).

These hotter-than-normal conditions supercharged the storm, fueling it with vast stores of moisture, the authors found. When it stalled near the Houston area, the resulting rains broke precipitation records and caused devastating flooding.

"We show, for the first time, that the volume of rain over land corresponds to the amount of water evaporated from the unusually warm ocean," said lead author Kevin Trenberth, an NCAR senior scientist. "As climate change continues to heat the oceans, we can expect more supercharged storms like Harvey."

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Hurricanes Are Strengthening Faster Than They Did 30 Years Ago

Sun, 2018-05-13 10:41 — Kathy Gilbeaux

A new study found that hurricanes intensify more quickly now than they did 30 years ago. Hurricanes from 2017 like Irma (center), and Jose (right) are examples of these types of hurricanes. Hurricane Katia is seen on the left. (Photo: NOAA)

usatoday.com - by Doyle Rice - May 10, 2018

With the start of hurricane season just three weeks away — and memory of last year's disastrous storms still fresh — scientists reported that powerful hurricanes are strengthening faster than they did 30 years ago.

Four of the monster hurricanes last year (Harvey, Irma, Jose and Maria) all intensified rapidly — when the maximum wind speed increases at least 29 mph within 24 hours . . .

. . . According to a study out this week, the main cause appears to be a natural climate phenomenon that warms the seawater where hurricanes typically intensify in the Atlantic.

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Earth's Carbon Dioxide Levels Continue to Soar, at Highest Point in 800,000 Years

Sat, 2018-05-05 09:09 — Kathy Gilbeaux

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CLICK HERE - Scripps Institute of Oceanography - CARBON DIOXIDE IN THE ATMOSPHERE HITS RECORD HIGH MONTHLY AVERAGE

usatoday.com - by Doyle Rice - May 4, 2018

Carbon dioxide — the gas scientists say is most responsible for global warming — reached its highest level in recorded history last month, at 410 parts per million.

This amount is highest in at least the past 800,000 years, according to the Scripps Institute of Oceanography. Prior to the onset of the Industrial Revolution, carbon dioxide levels had fluctuated over the millennia but had never exceeded 300 parts per million.

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Everglades Under Threat as Florida's Mangroves Face Death by Rising Sea Level

Thu, 2018-05-03 09:43 — Kathy Gilbeaux

The Everglades wilderness has already been reduced by half by the construction of dams and canals and to accommodate a booming population. Photograph: Getty Images

CLICK HERE - RESEARCH - SE Saline Everglades Transgressive Sedimentation in Response to Historic Acceleration in Sea-Level Rise: A Viable Marker for the Base of the Anthropocene?

The ‘river of grass’ wilderness and coastal communities are in peril, with the buffer coastal ecosystems on a ‘death march’ inland

theguardian.com - by Oliver Milman - May 2, 2018

Florida’s mangroves have been forced into a hasty retreat by sea level rise and now face being drowned, imperiling coastal communities and the prized Everglades wetlands, researchers have found.

Mangroves in south-east Florida in an area studied by the researchers have been on a “death march” inland as they edge away from the swelling ocean but have now hit a manmade levee and are likely to be submerged by water within 30 years, according to the Florida International University analysis.

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