Tag: Climate Change
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Too Hot to Handle: Can Heat Change How Your Medication Works?
“Take once daily” assumes a lot in just three words. Prescription labels tell us when to take a medication, whether to take it with food, and what substances to avoid, but rarely anything about the temperature outside. That omission looked less trivial during British Columbia’s 2021 heat dome, when hundreds of people died from heat-related…
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What We See, What We Believe: Experiencing Climate Change
“Seeing is believing.” It is one of those phrases that feels almost too obvious to question. If a glass falls off a table, we do not need someone to explain that gravity exists. If we step outside and feel freezing rain, we know the weather is cold. Much of what we understand about the physical…
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Make-Take-Waste
The United Nations, along with 70 other countries, has adopted a net zero carbon emissions commitment which is expected to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions (GGHGE) by 76% (United Nations, 2022). Simultaneously, one of the largest sectors contributing to GGHGE, the apparel industry, is experiencing an unprecedented rise in popularity, bringing its expected global revenue…
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From Comic to Crime: The Deadliest Supervillain
Beyond a supervillain in a DC comic, Toxicodendron radicans (Gillis, 1971), better known as poison ivy, acts as the infamous culprit behind many hives, redness, and rashes. Commonly found along heavily wooded forests and wetlands, this distinguishable plant is considered “early successional”, which means it prospers in areas with activity and thrives in disturbance opposed…