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More Americans say climate change affects their mental health --poll

Thu, 2024-06-20 10:33 — mike kraft

Poll: More Americans say climate change affects their mental health - UPI.com As summers get hotter and hurricane seasons less predictable, more Americans now say that climate change affects their mental health, a new poll finds. UPI

... In a survey conducted among more than 2,200 adults at the end of May, 53% of respondents said they believe that the effects of global warming impacts Americans' mental health.

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Climate change made killer heat wave in Mexico, Southwest US even warmer and 35 times more likely--study

Thu, 2024-06-20 10:12 — mike kraft

Climate change made killer heat wave in Mexico, Southwest US even warmer and 35 times more likely A new study finds that human-caused climate change dialed up the heat and drastically increased the odds of this month’s killer heat that has been baking the Southwestern United States, Mexico and Central America. AP News

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Socially connected older adults hit harder by pandemic than isolated peers--British study

Tue, 2024-06-11 12:08 — mike kraft

Socially connected older adults hit harder by pandemic than isolated peers

Socially connected older people had a sharper drop in their quality of life and life satisfaction and a greater increase in loneliness during the pandemic than their more isolated counterparts, according to a new study by UCL (University College London) researchers.

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Explainer: What to know as climate records keep getting shattered

Thu, 2024-06-06 10:07 — mike kraft

Climate records keep getting shattered. Here is what you need to know Month after month, global temperatures are breaking records. Meanwhile, scientists and climate policymakers warn of the growing likelihood that the planet will soon exceed the warming limit set in the landmark Paris 2015 climate talks. AP News

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World hits streak of record temperatures, could hit 1.5 C tipping rate before 2023

Thu, 2024-06-06 09:59 — mike kraft

World hits streak of record temperatures as UN warns of 'climate hell' Each of the past 12 months ranked as the warmest on record in year-on-year comparisons, the EU's climate change monitoring service said on Wednesday, as U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres called for urgent action to avert "climate hell". Kate Abnett,Gabrielle Tétrault-Farber Reuters

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U.S arrests Chinese man whose free computer programs enabled $6 Billion theft from COVID relief funds

Thu, 2024-05-30 11:23 — mike kraft

A man who allegedly stole $6 billion in COVID relief was arrested The DOJ says YunHe Wang offered free VPN programs that infected millions of computers Quartz

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The DOJ’s statement claims that 911 S5 customers allegedly targeted certain COVID-19 relief programs. It says that 560,000 fraudulent unemployment insurance claims originated from compromised IP addresses, resulting in a loss exceeding $5.9 billion for the United States.

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Climate change significantly worsened heat waves inAsia, parts of Mideast

Wed, 2024-05-15 12:37 — mike kraft

Climate change worsened deadly heat waves in April and May across Asia In the Philippines, the record heat was "virtually impossible" without climate change. Andrew Freedman Axios

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Extreme heat, spanning Lebanon to the Philippines since April, is being blamed for hundreds of deaths. It's added to the suffering of people who lack access to air conditioning, including displaced persons in the Middle East, the study notes.

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