by 570 Experts More than 570 Experts from 97 Countries Urge United Nations to Strengthen Freshwater Biodiversity Protections Humanity Faces Catastrophic Losses of Aquatic Species and Habitats World leaders must prioritize urgent and targeted actions to protect and restore freshwater ecosystems and respect the rights of indigenous and marginalised communities disproportionately affected by these losses […]
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Biodiversity: Humanity Faces Catastrophic Losses of Aquatic Species and Habitats
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COVID-19 Delta Variant and Vaccines
By Daniel Brouse What do we know about the Delta variant and vaccines? OVERVIEW The efficacy of mRna vaccines is about 79% against contracting the Delta variant. Non-mRna vaccines are between 40-60% effective against Delta. Vaccines lose efficacy at about 3%/month after six months of being fully vaccinated. Vaccines appear to help contain the Delta […]
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Long-COVID and Environmental Aggravators
by Daniel Brouse help@membrane.com Exercise aggravates long-COVID symptoms. COVID causes changes to your genes making it harder to create NAD+ and quicker to consume NAD+. Normally, exercise helps boost your NAD+. Not with long-COVID. The inflammation caused by exercise, anxiety, or exertion causes a rapid depletion of NAD+ aggravating long-COVID symptoms and perpetuating the downward […]
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Climate Change: Past the Tipping Point
A group of scientists known as Polarstern team spent the last year drifting through the arctic. “The disappearance of summer sea ice in the Arctic is one of the first landmines in this minefield, one of the tipping points that we set off first when we push warming too far,” Markus Rex (one of the […]
Rising Sea Level Turning New Jersey Cedars into Ghost Forests
The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection released the “New Jersey’s Coastal Community Vulnerability Assessment” ccvamp-final The sea level is rising faster than forecast. Saltwater intrusion is a current and severe problem. The United States Geological Survey reports, “Saltwater intrusion has occurred to some degree in many of the coastal aquifers of the United States. […]
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Coastal Real Estate Financial Crisis
The rising sea level is putting a trillion dollars of real estate at high risk. “The question is no longer if rising seas will erode coastal home values, but who will get stuck with the devalued assets when the markets turn,” reported Dee Gill. “Alarmingly, more than half of that (at-risk property) exposure is estimated […]
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Pollen and Increased SARS-CoV-2 Infection Rates
The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America published the study Higher airborne pollen concentrations correlated with increased SARS-CoV-2 infection rates, as evidenced from 31 countries across the globe. The research showed that airborne pollen on average accounts for 44% of the variation in infection rates in addition to […]
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Increasing Cost and Risk of Flood Insurance
The cost of flood damage to homes nationwide will increase by more than 50% in the next 30 years, the First Street Foundation estimates. Flood Insurance Forecast A report by NPR radio, A Looming Disaster: New Data Reveal Where Flood Damage Is An Existential Threat, found: The federal government provides the vast majority of residential […]
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Increasing Cost of Flood Insurance
“Increased awareness of flood risk and rising future insurance costs impact perceptions of value, which will impact real estate markets,” said Matthew Eby, founder and executive director of First Street Foundation. First Street Foundation published a report that concludes: “Rising sea levels and extreme weather could cause $20 billion of flood damage to at-risk U.S. […]
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