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Employee burnout can cost employers millions of people each year
Credit: Resuming the Genius of Pexels Employee burnout ranges from around $4,000 to $21,000 per US employee, and can cost millions of dollars each year, according to a study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. This means that 1,000 US employees companies lose on average about $5 million a year. These estimates are based on computational simulation models…
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Improved distribution of green spaces in Barcelona can prevent 178 premature deaths each year, the study says
(a) Domains simulated by the model. (b) Use of land considered in the model, along with the weather department used for verification. Credit: Environment International (2025). doi:10.1016/j.envint.2025.109313 Greening every third street in Barcelona city can prevent the premature death of up to 178 people each year. Furthermore, in the months that heatwaves occur, urban trees and gardens can help prevent…
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Earth
New England’s Salt Marsh stores carbon in 10 million cars and adds another 15,000 cars each year.
co-author Bonnie Tulek (center) holds a core of sediment recovered from a salt marsh in Phippsburg, Maine. Credit: umass amherst In the race to combat global climate change, a lot of attention is paid to natural carbon sinks. It is primarily in the terrestrial regions of the Earth that absorb and sequester more carbon than it emits. Scientists have long…
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Report: Colorado Forests Release More Carbon than Captures Every year
Dead trees stand in the healthy things of the Colorado State Forest in Central Colorado. Field Peterson/Colorado State Forest Service. Credit: Field Peterson/Colorado State Forest Service Colorado forests store a large amount of carbon, but in most cases trees that die from insects and diseases release more carbon than have been absorbed in recent years, according to a report from…
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2024: An amazing year of extreme weather and climate
Extreme climate and weather events in 2024. Credit: Wenxia Zhang From persistent drought in southern Africa and Central America earlier this year, to recent devastating extreme rainfall in Spain, to deadly Hurricane Helen along the East Coast of the United States, 2024 will bring billions of people closer to home. It was the year of climate change that affected our…
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2024 will be the hottest year on Earth as global warming trends continue
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The Earth experienced its warmest year on record in 2024, according to data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service, a European-led environmental monitoring program. The service said last year it exceeded the limit of 1.5°C (2.7°F) above the pre-industrial average set by the 2015 Paris Agreement, an international agreement aimed at reducing and reducing…
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Taiwan announces 2024 was the hottest year on record
“Taiwan’s average temperature in 2024 will be the highest since 1897,” a state forecaster said. Taiwan announced on Tuesday that this year was the hottest since record-keeping began 127 years ago, with unprecedented temperatures around the world. Climate change caused extreme weather and record heat around the world in 2024, fueling natural disasters that caused billions of dollars worth of…
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Solar geoengineering could save 400,000 lives a year
Regional mortality affects income growth and climate adaptation. Credit: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2024). DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2401801121 When it comes to finding solutions to climate change, there’s no shortage of technologies vying for attention, from renewable energy to electric vehicles to nuclear energy. One such candidate, solar geoengineering, claims to be able to rapidly cool the Earth, limit…
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Cape Cod dolphin strandings in worst year on record, scientists searching for answers
In this image provided by the International Fund for Animal Welfare, two dolphins are stranded along Ellis Landing in Brewster, Massachusetts, on November 9, 2024. An unprecedentedly bad year for dolphins on Cape Cod’s beaches may have something to do with the changing environment caused by rising ocean temperatures. Scientists said they hope to improve the availability of food for…
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Earth records second-warmest October on record in 175 years: 2024 on pace to become world’s warmest year on record
Annotated world map plotting the most important climate changes for October 2024. Credit: NOAA Headquarters Earth had another unusually warm month, with October 2024 ranking as the second-warmest October in NOAA’s 175-year global climate record. October will add another mild month to 2024, almost certainly the warmest year on record on Earth, according to scientists at NOAA’s National Center for…
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