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Hurricane Helene’s unexpected impact on inland communities further highlights flaws in America’s flood insurance system, and the need to update flood risk maps

What’s the hold-up on the mass adoption of EVs? Mostly the ability to, um, charge them. We need to pick up the pace

The Department of Energy is pouring billions into transmission projects, but with lengthy approval processes and regulatory hurdles, we’re gonna need more

🌎 Britain’s carbon capture goals include a plan to bury emissions from industrial plants under the sea

🌏 The UK has also shut down its final coal-fired power plant, truly the end of an era. Here’s how other countries stack up in the clean energy transition

🌎 To develop more effective precision medicine strategies and improve medical treatments for underrepresented populations (like Indigenous groups), we need more comprehensive genetic data collection

Researchers are pivoting mRNA flue vaccine work towards developing one for bird flu following the recent and ongoing outbreaks

When people have more health insurance coverage, broadband internet access, and income, suicide rates are lower, according to a recent CDC analysis

Medical institutions are moving away from race-based adjustments in lung function tests following recommendations to adopt race-neutral algorithms. While this change is aimed at addressing longstanding racial bias in healthcare, it could significantly impact diagnoses and treatment for millions of patients

🌎 The worst-ever drought in Brazil risks a spike in global food prices

To say water management in the West is complex would be a huge understatement, and considering the needs of endangered fish populations that also rely on critical water flows doesn’t make it any simpler

Anti-immigration rhetoric fails to address the fact that immigrant workers are essential to America’s food system

The secret to a healthier, more sustainable seafood industry may lie in the growth of community-based seafood

If you use PayPal, you should know that the company opted users into sharing data with third parties - here’s how to opt out

In other automatically opting in news, Udemy only gave teachers three weeks to opt out of having their classes used as training for AI

Snap chose to ignore its sextortion problem by failing to act on 90 percent of user reporters

California failed to pass a bill to regulate AI, and it’s hard to see a path forward that doesn’t violate First Amendment rights

NASA bought Clearview AI, the surveillance tool that uses images scraped from social media to perform facial recognition

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