UN secretary General says Man's war against nature must stop
While speaking at the two-week climate summit in Madrid, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, stressed the importance of changing the way humanity interacts with nature. He went on to say that 'man's war against nature' must stop and that stopping it is not impossible. However, no country in the world is currently meeting the standard that is required in order to fight global warming.
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Sea levels could rise as much as 1.3 meters, report says
According to a recent research report, In the worst-case scenario , with rising emissions and global heating of 4.5C above pre-industrial levels, the study estimates the surface of the world’s oceans in 2100 will be between 0.6 and 1.3 meters higher than today, which would potentially engulf areas home to hundreds of millions of people.
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Scientists name temperature-sensitive snail in honor of student activist Greta Thunberg
The famous student environment activist Greta Thunberg, along with winning the Time magazine Person of the Year award and a Nobel Peace Prize nomination, has now been accorded the unique honor of having a newly discovered species named after her. The creature belongs to a family of temperature-sensitive land snail and has been named Craspedotropis gretathunbergae.
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Research shows Coronavirus uses the same mechanism as SARS
A report published in Nature has provided the first direct evidence for the hypothesis that the Wuhan Coronavirus, dubbed 2019-nCoV, infects cells through the same mechanism as the virus that causes a severe acute respiratory syndrome, SARS. Both rely on the ACE2 enzyme to enter and infect living cells, leading researchers to suggest that both viruses may have originated in bats.
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Changing how a TB vaccine is injected boosts its effectiveness, researchers find
In a report published online on Nature, researchers reported that changing the method of delivery of the TB vaccine from a subcutaneous injection to a direct injection into the bloodstream boosted the effectiveness of the vaccine. The TB vaccine is called BCG and is currently the only widely used TB vaccine, being discovered almost a hundred years ago.
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