Climate change has made the world s deadliest lake way more dangerous
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Small dams were built around Lake Palcacocha in the 1970s, when it was a fraction of its current volume.Eric Mack/CNET
Editors note:
For Earth Day 2021, we re checking in on progress made in confronting climate change. In this story, Eric Mack investigates the complicated challenges facing people in Peru living under the constant threat of glacial lake outburst floods. Since the story originally came out in late 2019, the danger has seemingly increased in the Andes, as evidenced by a in 2020.
I m standing on a 45-year-old dam high in the Peruvian Andes, gripped by a mix of awe and terror.
Under a cross-disciplinary program spearheaded by EPFL, scientists will develop an AI-based system that can predict whether Covid-19 patients will develop severe cardiovascular complications and, in the longer term, detect the likely onset of inflammatory disease.
Covid-19 comes with a range of symptoms – from a sore throat and the loss of taste to more serious ones like lung failure. But how can doctors predict how serious the disease will be when it first manifests? “The interaction between the viral infection, the host’s response, and the development of cardiovascular inflammation and injury is still poorly understood. It’s hard to know whether a patient’s symptoms will remain mild or rapidly deteriorate and trigger multiple organ failure,” says Adrian Ionescu, a professor at EPFL’s Nanoelectronic Devices Laboratory, within the School of Engineering. If doctors could use a scientific method to better understand and predict the likelihood of a patient’s condition w