[Coral-List] genetic switch in sea anemone
Douglas Fenner
douglasfennertassi at gmail.com
Sat Jan 16 09:41:04 UTC 2021
A single genetic switch can lead to rapid evolution in sea anemones
https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/01/single-genetic-switch-can-lead-rapid-evolution-sea-anemones
Cheers, Doug
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Douglas Fenner
Lynker Technologies, LLC, Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Coral Reef Consulting
PO Box 997390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799-6298 USA
A German initiative seeks to curb global emissions of a climate
super-pollutant
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/30122020/chemical-plant-nitrous-oxide-climate-warming-emissions/
The toxic effects of air pollution are so bad that moving from fossil fuels
to clean energy would pay for itself in health-care savings and
productivity gains
<https://nature.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2c6057c528fdc6f73fa196d9d&id=c9f70ba54f&e=190a62d266>
—
even if climate change didn’t exist. In the US alone, decarbonization
would save 1.4 MILLION lives in the US alone. And save $700 Billion a year.
https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2020/8/12/21361498/climate-change-air-pollution-us-india-china-deaths
"Already, more people die <http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/hazstats.shtml>from
heat-related causes in the U.S. than from all other extreme weather events."
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/09/624643780/phoenix-tries-to-reverse-its-silent-storm-of-heat-deaths
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