Farmers are being paid millions to trap carbon in their soils. Will it actually help the planet?
Lance Unger has been doing things a little differently lately on his farm near the Wabash River in southwestern Indiana. After last fall’s harvest, rather than leaving his fields fallow, he sowed some of them with cover crops of oats and sorghum that grew until the winter cold killed them off. And before planting corn and soybeans this spring, Unger drove a machine to shove aside yellowing stalks—last season’s “trash,” as he calls it—rather than tilling the soil and plowing the stalks under. For these efforts, a Boston-based company called Indigo paid Unger $26,232 in late 2021 and an even larger chunk lat...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 27, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

Phasing out of nuclear - phasing out of risk? Spatial assessment of social vulnerability and exposure to nuclear power plants in Germany - Fekete A.
This study conducts a geospatial analysis in exposure radii from 5 to 80  km around 41 NPP sites in and around Germany. The results show that 40 ...
Source: SafetyLit - July 27, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Disaster Preparedness Source Type: news

Electric car suspected in ship fire off Netherlands
– An electric car was suspected in the blaze raging aboard a cargo ship off the Netherlands on Wednesday, which authorities fear could burn for days and threaten nearby natural sites. Authorities fear the fire, whose cause is still under investigation, could burn for several days The cargo aboard…#netherlands #dutch #kisenkaisha #fremantlehighway #singapore #rijkswaterstaat #ameland #afp #waddensee #denmark
Source: Reuters: Health - July 27, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Ancient people in China systematically mined and burned coal up to 3600 years ago
Long before coal fueled the Industrial Revolution, ancient societies around the world were already exploiting its power to smelt metal or heat water for toasty baths. Now, excavations at a Bronze Age site in northwestern China show people were burning coal on a large scale up to 3600 years ago, 1 millennium earlier than previously thought. The research, reported today in Science Advances , also traces where the coal came from and how a shortage of other fuel may have encouraged ancient people to turn to this new energy source. In the past, knowledge of ancient coal usage was “based on who actually w...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 26, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

Shark filmed feeding on " bunker pod " in mesmerizing video
What does a shark attack look like from the sky? Not an attack on humans, but on thousands of fish. Officials from the New York State Parks and Historic Sites have captured stunning aerial footage of a requiem shark as it lunged into a school of Atlantic menhaden, known as a "bunker pod." The New…#newyorkstateparks #historicsites #atlantic #nysdepartment #requiem #catholic #museumofflorida #sharkattackfile #newyorkstate #duskysharks
Source: Reuters: Health - July 26, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Blog: Influencing the next Labour government
After 13 years of Tory failures in Westminster, our economy is weaker, our living standards are lower, and our country is poorer. Britain is clearly broken. Over the weekend, our UNISON delegation spent long hours in intense negotiations with the Labour party at the National Policy Forum. Our mission was to get UNISON’s priorities on pay, public services, social care, workers’ and trade union rights, and equalities into Labour’s policy platform for their next manifesto. That manifesto must be election-winning, because despite Labour riding high in the polls over the past year, they’ve lost the last four general ele...
Source: UNISON Health care news - July 26, 2023 Category: UK Health Authors: Christina McAnea Tags: Article General Secretary General Secretary's blog News Christina McAnea Labour Party UNISON Labour Link Source Type: news

National monument dedicated to Emmett Till amid debate over how to teach race and history
A new national monument dedicated to the murdered teenager Emmett Till and his mother honors three sites critical to Till's story, and central to the birth of America's civil rights movement. The announcement comes in the middle of a heated debate over how best to teach children about race and…#emmetttill #laurabarrónlópez
Source: Reuters: Health - July 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Faulty concrete fears at 250 NHS Scotland sites
The buildings could contain a material which NHS Scotland warns is vulnerable to "catastrophic failure".
Source: BBC News | Health | UK Edition - July 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Anger grows in Ukraine ' s port city of Odesa after Russian bombardment hits beloved historic sites
Tetiana Khlapova's hand trembled as she recorded the wreckage of Odesa’s devastated Transfiguration Cathedral on her cellphone and cursed Russia, her native land. Khlapova was raised in Ukraine and had always dreamed of living in the seaside city. But not as the war refugee that she has become. In…#tetianakhlapova #khlapova #ukraine #odesa #russian #kharkiv #ireland #moscow #catherinethe #leotolstoy
Source: Reuters: Health - July 25, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

This fish delivers a nasty sting. Could it also save lives?
Ocean-goers along the Pacific Northwest’s rugged shorelines know to give the prickly Korean rockfish a wide berth. A type of scorpionfish, it can deliver a toxic strike with its spines. But according to a new study, the fish may possess the ability to heal as well as harm. A protein it produces can kill drug-resistant bacteria, the authors say, and could one day be used to treat infections in people with cystic fibrosis. The discovery “sets the stage” for scientists to develop better tools to combat antibiotic resistance, says Nicole Iovine, an infectious disease expert at the University of Florida who was not i...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 24, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

Where do deep-sea creatures live? Where they won ’t dissolve
Vast muddy seabeds cover more than 60% of the planet, collectively making them Earth’s largest habitat. At first glance, these frigid, sunless depths all seem more or less the same. Yet the animals that live there, kilometers below the surface, prefer some regions over others, according to a new study. What accounts for their preferences? It’s nothing they can see or sense, the authors say, but an invisible and life-threatening limit imposed by seawater chemistry. This limit demarcates where an important component of many kinds of marine life, calcium carbonate, naturally dissolves. Researchers have long known tha...
Source: ScienceNOW - July 24, 2023 Category: Science Source Type: news

‘They’re fired up’: Teamsters president on looming UPS strike
Sean O’Brien has a long family legacy at the Teamsters: his great-grandfather, grandfather and father were all Teamster union members in Boston. O’Brien joined the union after dropping out of college at age 19 to haul equipment on construction sites in 1991. Thirty-two years later, he is on the…#seanobrien #teamsters #teamster #boston #teamstersunion #starbucks #amazon #local25 #jameshoffa #mafia
Source: Reuters: Health - July 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

The Digital activity of movements to combat violence against women and the feminist movement through social networking sites in Egypt: a qualitative study - Baraka E.
This study deals with one form of the digital movement represented by groups to combat violence against women in the public sphere. This movement includes dozens of different groups, forming the nucleus of a social movement in the making that includes seve...
Source: SafetyLit - July 24, 2023 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Jurisprudence, Laws, Legislation, Policies, Rules Source Type: news

Training to Stay: Oklahoma's Homegrown, Educational Approach to the Rural Physician Shortage
Choctaw Nation created a family medicine residency program in rural Oklahoma in order to address the rural physician shortage. Because residencies are typically in urban areas, physicians are more likely to practice there after completing their residencies. Highlights the history of the physician shortage and efforts by the Center for Rural Health at Oklahoma State University to establish rural residency sites.
Source: News stories via the Rural Assistance Center - July 24, 2023 Category: Rural Health Source Type: news

Zight can help you annotate and share screenshots
This article is republished with permission from Wonder Tools, a newsletter that helps you discover the most useful sites and apps. Subscribe here. Read…#swissarmy #cloudapp #wondertools #readfullstory
Source: Reuters: Health - July 24, 2023 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

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