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Extreme Heat Affects Men’s Fertility and Birth Outcomes: NUS Study
Punishing hot weather affects not only a person’s health or work productivity but also affects couples’ fertility and…
Tajikistan’s Troubled Water
Dubai (27/2) Tajikistan’s existential project to build the colossal 335-meter-high Roghun hydropower dam is proceeding apace, but costs…
Climate Change Lecture for UN Preventive Diplomacy Academy
John Hamilton and Sophie Daud gave a lecture on climate change to the UN Regional Centre for Preventive…
Storm and Bursting Dams Kill Thousands in Libya
Toronto, Frankfurt (16/9 – 30) Derna is a second-tier city of roughly 100,000 people, situated in northeast Libya.…
Acosta & Burls Using Weather Model & Geologic Data to Test Tectonic Mechanisms in Intercontinental Setting
Paul Acosta, Postdoctoral Scholar, Atmospheric, Oceanic and Earth Sciences (AOES), and Natalie Burls, Associate Professor, AOES; Graduate Program…
Water Conflicts Loom in Central Asia
An ambitious infrastructure project in Afghanistan risks exacerbating scarcities in Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan. An irrigation canal under construction…