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First comprehensive look at effects of 2020-2021 California megafires on terrestrial wildlife habitat

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

In 2020 and 2021, California experienced fire activity unlike anything recorded in the modern record. When the smoke cleared, the amount of burned forest totaled ten times more than the annual average going back to the late 1800s. We know that wildlife in western forests evolved with changing habitat and disturbances like wildfire.

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Scientific path to recouping the costs of climate change

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They report that carbon dioxide and methane output from just 111 companies cost the world economy $28 trillion from 1991 to 2020, with the five top-emitting firms linked to $9 trillion of those losses. The researchers use the tool to provide the first causal estimate of economic losses due to extreme heat driven by emissions.

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2020 to 2022 Saw Nearly 2 Million Annual Emergency Room Visits for Dental Issues

Drugs.com

FRIDAY, June 13, 2025 -- Tooth disorders accounted for an annual average of 1,944,000 emergency department visits during 2020 to 2022, according to a June data brief published by the National Center for Health Statistics.Susan M. Schappert and.

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Climate change: Future of today's young people

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C by 2100, 92% of children born in 2020 will experience unprecedented heatwave exposure over their lifetime, affecting 111 million children. If global temperatures rise by 3.5 Meeting the Paris Agreement's 1.5 C target could protect 49 million children from this risk.

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Wellcome Photography Prize 2020 shortlist announced

Drug Discovery Today

44 shortlisted images from 13 countries; Categories are Social Perspectives, Hidden Worlds, Medicine in Focus, and two categories highlighting the 2020 theme of Mental Health;Winners to be announced digitally on 19 August

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A snapshot of relativistic motion: Special relativity made visible

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In 1959, physicists James Terrell and Roger Penrose (Nobel laureate in 2020) independently concluded that fast-moving objects should appear rotated. However, this effect has never been demonstrated.

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Ships now spew less sulfur, but warming has sped up

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New findings document fewer ship tracks, reduced cloud cover, and boosted warming after ship emissions regulations took effect in 2020.