We Can Beat Climate Change If We Do One Thing Fast
Now, finally, much of the world has become convinced, first-hand, that global warming is not only real but heating up more rapidly than we expected, unleashing irreversible impacts. Many people feel despair and helplessness in the face of doomsday predictions already in evidence. And yet, I’m optimistic that we can solve this problem in time to keep our planet livable for future generations. I have to be optimistic. I’m the father of young children and I want them to not only survive what humanity has done to our planet, but experience the awe of the natural world that I enjoyed as a child. But I’m also a...
Source: TIME: Science - November 4, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Saul Griffith Tags: Uncategorized climate change TIME 2030 Source Type: news

Africa: Fixing the Roof Before the Rain Comes
[WHO] Acting on lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic can prevent the same mistakes from being made again in the inevitable future health emergencies.
Source: AllAfrica News: Health and Medicine - October 29, 2021 Category: African Health Source Type: news

John Kerry Is Bringing America Back Into the Climate Fight
John Kerry can feel the heat. It’s a sunny mid-July day in Naples, Italy, and we’re sitting on the roof of his hotel overlooking the Mediterranean. As tourists on the other side of the patio snap photos of Mount Vesuvius looming in the background, Kerry is warning about the fate of human life on earth. Kerry, 77, has been on the public stage for decades as a Senator, presidential candidate and U.S. Secretary of State and, on paper, his latest role representing the U.S. as President Biden’s climate envoy may look like a demotion. But Kerry rejects any question about why he’s taken this role. The fate...
Source: TIME: Science - October 28, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Justin Worland/Naples. Italy Tags: Uncategorized climate change Climate Is Everything Cover Story feature Magazine Source Type: news

Chinese Scientist Hopes to Conserve What May Be the World ’s Oldest Art
A scientist from Guangdong, China plans to appeal to the Tibetan government to conserve recently discovered fossils of handprints and footprints on a rock on the world’s highest plateau—because they may be the oldest prehistoric art ever recorded and the earliest evidence of human life in the region. Dr. David Zhang, who found the impressions with his research team in Quesang on the Tibetan Plateau, said nearby villagers have already warded off strangers from visiting their research site. Zhang, the lead researcher from Guangzhou University, discovered the impressions on a type of limestone called travertine in...
Source: TIME: Science - October 19, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Chad de Guzman Tags: Uncategorized Archaeology overnight wire Source Type: news

A meteorite crashes through a home in Canada, barely missing a woman's head
British Columbia resident Ruth Hamilton had a rude awakening earlier this month when a large meteorite plunged from space, through her roof and landed in her bed.(Image credit: Nadia Palici/Getty Images)
Source: NPR Health and Science - October 14, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Scott Neuman Source Type: news

Meteorite crashes through roof of Canada woman ’s home and on to bed
‘I’ve never been so scared in my life,’ says Ruth Hamilton after meteorite shower above a western Canadian regionA woman in Canada awoke in shock earlier this week when a rock crashed through the ceiling of her home and landed on her bed, narrowly missing her but spraying grit and other debris on her face, as her dog barked frantically.Police were called and the culprit was initially suspected to be a construction site nearby, where work must have sent the fist-sized projectile onto the woman ’s pillow. But when the construction workers said they had not set any blasts – but had just seen an explosion in the sky ...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Science - October 14, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Guardian staff and agencies Tags: Canada Meteors Americas Science World news Source Type: news

Amazon's controversial vision for the future of your home security
Amazon's vision for the future of home security includes drones flying over your roof, outdoor cameras that monitor for possible...
Source: Reuters: Health - October 1, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Inclination angles during cross-slope roof walking - Breloff SP, Carey RE, Wade C, Waddell DE.
Residential roofers have the highest rate of falls in the construction sector with injuries and fatalities costing billions of dollars annually. The sloped roof surface is the most predominant component within the residential roof work environment. Postura...
Source: SafetyLit - September 27, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Risk Perception and Communication, Warnings, Operating Instructions Source Type: news

An alternative method for analyzing the slip potential of workers on sloped surfaces - Dong RG, Wu JZ, Dai F, Breloff SP.
Slips and falls on sloped roof surfaces remain an important safety issue among construction workers. The slip potential has been conventionally analyzed and assessed primarily based on ground reaction forces, which cannot differentiate the specific roles o...
Source: SafetyLit - September 27, 2021 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Environmental Issues, Climate, Geophysics Source Type: news

Meet the 14-Year-Old Girl Whose Solar-Powered Invention Is a Finalist for Prince William ’s Earthshot Prize
Tell Vinisha Umashankar that your teen years pale in comparison to hers, and she is quick to remind you that everyone has a different life journey. But the 14-year-old also knows that the future looks very different for her generation if the world doesn’t act to slow global warming and the effects of climate change. Still, she’s optimistic that “collective action” of people her age will turn the tide. That’s probably why Umashankar has already been doing more than her fair share. In Tiruvannamalai, a small temple town in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, she designed an ingenious sola...
Source: TIME: Science - September 23, 2021 Category: Science Authors: Abhishyant Kidangoor Tags: Uncategorized biztech2030 climate change India overnight TIME 2030 Source Type: news

WATCH: Superdome roof catches fire; 1 injured
An intense fire appeared to be billowing from the Superdome roof Tuesday (Sept. 21).
Source: Reuters: Health - September 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Suicidal man jumps off building, kills himself and another
A 'distraught' 25-year-old man killed himself and a 61-year-old man when he jumped off the roof of a Yonkers, N.Y. building and landed...
Source: Reuters: Health - September 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Two dead after suicidal man jumps from Yonkers building, strikes another person below
An apparently suicidal man jumped off the roof of a Yonkers apartment building on Monday night and landed on a person below — resulting...
Source: Reuters: Health - September 21, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Source Type: news

Safe staffing and flexibility key factors for future of NHS
Health conference delegates this afternoon considered two key factors that are leading colleagues to leave the NHS, notably the lack of flexible working and safe staffing levels. UNISON lay leaders recently presented the Pay Review Body with evidence showing that over a third of staff were currently considering leaving their NHS jobs. That’s on top of the thousands of disgruntled health workers who have already done so over the past decade. Introducing a composite motion, Stuck in the vicious circle – staffing levels, career development and flexibility, Wilma Brown of the health service group executive (HSGE) – p...
Source: UNISON Health care news - September 20, 2021 Category: UK Health Authors: Demetrios Matheou Tags: Article News 2021 Virtual Health Conference Source Type: news

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