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Canopy Cover Crisis: Global Cities Fail to Meet Basic Green Space Standards

Are cities around the world taking steps to provide adequate canopy cover from available trees to help mitigate increased temperatures from climate change? This is what a recent study published in Nature Communications hopes to address as an international team ...

Serious, Multi-State E Coli Outbreak Caused by Carrots & Baby Carrots

The US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and other officials in several US states are currently investigating a multistate outbreak of infections caused by a pathogenic strain of E. coli known as O121:H19. This bacterium generates Shiga toxin ...

First Case of Maternal-Child Oropuche Virus Transmission Confirmed

Oropouche virus (OROV) was first identified in a human patient in 1955 in a fevered charcoal worker on Trinidad, a Caribbean island. Since that discovery, about 500,000 cases have been confirmed, primarily in Brazil and other parts of South America. But the virus caused the first confirmed deaths earlier this year ...

Mapping the Impact of Climate Change on New England's Water Cycle

How will climate change impact the water cycle in New England? This is what upcoming research funded by the United States Geological Survey (USGS) hopes to address as a team of researchers from the University of Massachusetts Amherst will investigate the water cycle throughout New England to ascertain how climate ...

Cannabinol Improves Sleep in Preclinical Study

A new preclinical study found that cannabinol (CBN) may improve sleep. The findings pave the way for future studies investigating the utility of the substance to treat sleep disorders. The corresponding study was published in Neuropsychopharmacology. CBN is considered an end-product of tetrahydrocannabinol ...