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UW students from Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease, co-directed by GHI Advisory Committee members, aid post-Harvey mosquito control
UW students from Center of Excellence for Vector-Borne Disease, co-directed by GHI Advisory Committee members, aid post-Harvey mosquito control
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Global Hot Spots: How Might Solving the Global Climate Crisis be the Health Cure of the Century?
The global climate crisis poses large risks to public health through many exposure pathways — from heat waves and air pollution to malnutrition, infectious diseases, and social dislocation. At the same time, confronting the cause of climate change — reducing greenhouse gas emissions — offers large benefits to…
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Searching for Answers on a Warming Planet: Why We May Need Climate Engineering
Simon Nicholson, Director of the Global Environmental Politics program in the School of International Service and co-founder of the Forum for Climate Engineering Assessment, will discuss a range of other climate engineering or “geoengineering” schemes which are gaining increasing visibility and credibility as options for tackling climate change. What, though, is to be made of such…
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WIZM: Study shows monkeys contracted CWD from infected deer meat, shows possibility to humans
CWD could affect humans; get your deer tested, says Keith Poulsen, a GHI Advisory Committee member with the Wisconsin Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory.
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Importance of solar energy underestimated three-fold
Importance of solar energy underestimated three-fold, GHI Advisory Committee member finds