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The pollutant that contributes most to dementia risk? Wildfire smoke. Get your HEPA air purifiers, folks

A few weeks ago, we published a piece by Molly Peterson covering how climate is impacting home insurance. Now, to help Californians who are struggling to find home coverage, the state is considering allowing insurers to use wildfire catastrophe models to set rates, which could potentially stabilize the market… but also raises concerns about transparency and fairness

🌎 The opportunities for renewables growth in Africa are huge (tot he tune of $193 billion, to be exact)

As storms intensify, it’s becoming harder for cities to plan disaster responses

The EPA has announced another $4.3 billion in local climate funds to boost community-driven climate action across the country

A big week for blood tests! The FDA has approved a blood test to detect colon cancer in hopes that will encourage more people to get screened, and a new study shows that a blood test for Alzheimer’s can accurately diagnose the disease 90% of the time

The data is in! Congestion pricing in London resulted in a significant decrease in pollutants that contribute to asthma and other air pollution-related ailments just 6 months after implementing Health benefits of fees on polluting cars in London

🌍 Dengue has increased by over 200% in the Americas this year, and cases are also surging across several countries in Asia and Africa, and the risk is increasing the US too, resulting in the need to adapt and mitigate the spread

As the FLiRT variants cause a summer Covid wave, wastewater surveillance (one of the few remaining metrics to track the spread) is still all over the place

🌍 Improving nutrition for pregnant women and babies worldwide would cause a significant cognitive boost for humanity

🌎 We’ve still got a lot of work to do, as trendlines to end word hunger have been moving in the wrong direction since 2019, causing the UN to announce its first-ever nutrition bond

🌏 As drought continues to grip the Mediterranean, the region worries about impacts on tourism

Farmworkers are fighting for Kroger to join the Fair Food Program to ensure stronger labor and heat protections

Farmers trying to adapt to climate change by transitioning to regenerative agriculture are being blocked by a federal insurance barrier

Meanwhile, farmers in Vermont are adapting to increased flooding and other extreme weather impacts finding ways to mitigate flooding and other extreme weather impacts by reorganizing fields and planting trees as buffers

Researchers say they have made a breakthrough using AI to make weather and climate forecasting faster and cheaper

DeepMind can solve complex math problems, bringing systems closer to reasoning capabilities that could unlock a whole new can of worms

With proper regulations and incentives, we can use the AI boom as a means to accelerate the clean energy transition, making AI a climate ally rather than foe How to make AI and climate work together

🌏 Chinese tech companies have released AI systems to rival those in the US, tightening the race in AI development

Scientists are utilizing techniques from astronomy to help detect deepfake images

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