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Can Boston become a âwinter cityâ?
How a âwinter placemakingâ plan could help communities and businesses get through the dark season ahead.
By Janelle Nanos Globe Staff,Updated December 18, 2020, 9:43 a.m.
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In the Seaport, holiday lights are all around a curling ice sheet that is open for use by the public.Jim Davis/Globe Staff
With temperatures dropping, COVID-19 cases surging, and a vaccine still months away from the public at large, thereâs little doubt that a dark winter is ahead for the Commonwealth. But in a series of new efforts, cities like Worcester, Salem, and North Adams are trying to counter that darkness with light.
Our Polluted Planet
Environmental contamination claims 9 million lives a year, and it’s going to get much worse. So BC has hired the acclaimed epidemiologist and public health champion Philip Landrigan ’63 to launch a new program and take on this global killer.
By Shannon Fischer
In 1948, 20 people in Donora, Pennsylvania, died from a toxic smog that enveloped the mill town for five long days. Twenty-one years later, Cleveland’s Cuyahoga River, glutted with factory waste, burst into flame and not for the first time, either. That was how it used to be in the United States: the city air was thick and acrid, asbestos lined our buildings, Lake Erie was a “cesspool,” according to
ocean pollution threatens
human health, a study revealed.
The research was conducted by an international research team that published their results in the journal
Annals of Global Health. They wrote about the widespread damage inflicted upon the oceans by the actions of humans, which in turn also cause damage to human health.
The researchers also made several recommendations regarding solutions to lessen these damages.
The study detailed the latest scientific findings of the critical role that the oceans play in our health and the health of our planet. It also examined the key factors damaging ocean health.
With the increase in temperatures worldwide, the melting of sea ice also increases. It causes an increase in harmful bacteria and algae into waters that were uncontaminated in the past.
Is there a link between ocean pollution and damage to human health?
Written by Timothy Huzar on December 12, 2020 Fact checked by Hannah Flynn, MS
Human actions are causing widespread damage to ocean ecosystems and threatening human health, a new report suggests.
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An international team of researchers has highlighted the widespread damage human actions have caused to the world’s oceans, and in turn, to human health.
The research, which appears in the
Annals of Global Health, lays out a series of recommendations for alleviating these damaging effects.
Oceans and global health
The Earth’s oceans are crucial to sustaining life on the planet. They play a central role in adding oxygen into the atmosphere and absorbing carbon dioxide, helping to stabilize the effects of global heating.