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Reducing Arsenic in Drinking Water Cuts Risk of Death, Even After Years of Chronic Exposure – State of the Planet

Credit: Lingkon Serao A new 20-year study of nearly 11,000 adults in Bangladesh found that lowering arsenic levels in drinking water was associated with up to a 50 percent lower risk of death from heart disease, cancer and other chronic illnesses, compared with continued exposure. Published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association, […]
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Edge Hill divests from climate wreckers

Fossil fuel extractor and border industry companies have been quietly banned as potential investments by Edge Hill University, after successful protests by People & Planet.  The move makes Edge Hill the third UK university to commit to both the Divest Borders and Fossil Free campaigns simultaneously – following in the footsteps of Staffordshire University and […]
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Continuing on to Comilla, Dhaka and the Coast – State of the Planet

I’m here in Bangladesh repairing my global navigation satellite system (GNSS) stations, which record the tectonic motions of the plate boundary and the subsidence of the Ganges-Brahmaputra Delta, the largest in the world. I am traveling with Adam Woolace, an EarthScope Consortium engineer and Sanju Singha and Zohur Ahmed from Dhaka University. Having finished repairing […]
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Humans Occupied a High-Altitude Site in Australia During the Last Ice Age, New Study Finds – State of the Planet

The Blue Mountains, New South Wales, Australia. Credit: Donovan Kelly/Pexels A new study in Nature Human Behaviour led by Amy Way, a research archaeologist at the University of Sydney, establishes that sites above 700 meters in Australia were inhabited during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)—a period between 26,000 and 19,000 years ago. Way and her […]
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Repairing Global Navigation Satellite Systems in the Land of Tea – State of the Planet

I have been doing research in Bangladesh for almost 25 years, covering many different Earth science topics: tectonics and earthquakes, land subsidence and sea level rise, availability of fresh and salty groundwater, rivers changing positions. For several of these topics, I set up and maintain a network of GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite Systems) stations. GPS […]
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Carbon credits ‘a free pass for polluters’

Certifying Dr West says that while some developers act in good faith, the system itself is set up to fail: “Not every project developer is inflating baselines.  “Some genuinely want to do the right thing, but they’re forced to follow Verra’s approved methodologies. Even with the best intentions, if you follow the “wrong recipe”, you will probably […]
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Earth’s Continents Stabilized Due to Furnace-Like Heat, Study Reveals – State of the Planet

Adapted from a press release written by Marina Naumova for Penn State University. For billions of years, Earth’s continents have remained remarkably stable, forming the foundation for mountains, ecosystems and civilizations. But the secret to their stability has mystified scientists for more than a century. Now, a new study by researchers at Penn State and […]
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Mitochondrial presequences harbor variable strengths to maintain organellar function

Hundreds of mitochondrial proteins rely on N-terminal presequences for organellar targeting and import. While generally described as positively charged amphiphilic helices, presequences lack a consensus motif and thus likely promote protein import into mitochondria with variable efficiencies. Indeed, the concept of presequence strength underlies biological models such as stress sensing, yet a quantitative analysis of […]
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Mitochondrial presequences harbor variable strengths to maintain organellar function

Hundreds of mitochondrial proteins rely on N-terminal presequences for organellar targeting and import. While generally described as positively charged amphiphilic helices, presequences lack a consensus motif and thus likely promote protein import into mitochondria with variable efficiencies. Indeed, the concept of presequence strength underlies biological models such as stress sensing, yet a quantitative analysis of […]
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Labour’s ‘deeply alarming’ attack on protest rights

British authorities have severely restricted the right to protest in contravention of their international human rights obligations, creating an environment in which peaceful dissent is increasingly treated as a criminal act, Human Rights Watch said in its latest report. ‘Silencing the Streets’: The Right to Protest Under Attack in the UK documents that the UK’s […]
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