🔥 For every 1°C increase in average global temperatures, we are seeing up to a 6% decrease in yield for the four major crops – maize, rice, soy and wheat – that provide 60% of global calories.
More in @FAO-@WMO report👉 https://t.co/dyTg4xyBHp
#ExtremeHeat
@MacintyreRaina In Jan2025, USAID terminated the $100M STOP Spillover program. That program monitored reservoirs for Ebola, Marburg and Lassa across Uganda, DRC and five other countries. Field teams were dispersed within days. The Uganda–DRC cross-border surveillance network went dark.
#USAID
The US National Institutes of Health (NIH) has one of the few labs in the world which can study Ebola virus.
In March 2025 RFK Jr had it shut down.
We now have a huge Ebola outbreak on our hands.
What a foolish move
In case you missed it — I did! — the process to select the next #WHO director-general has begun.
DGs can only serve 2 terms; @DrTedros' 2nd term is up next summer. On April 24, he notified member states that the nomination period was open. It closes 9/24/26. https://t.co/Pp3tKL1WXZ
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Il calendario segna il 3 maggio. Per l'ambiente non è una bella data. Scatta l'overshoot day dell'Italia. In pratica il Paese ha consumato le risorse naturali che è in grado di produrre in un anno intero, segnando anche un peggioramento con un anticipo di 3 giorni sul 2025. #ANSA
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All 22 members of the board that advises and oversees the US National Science Foundation (NSF), a leading funder of basic science, were fired on 24 April without explanation.
https://t.co/HObFlD8bLg
The world of influenza science has lost one of its giants. Nancy Cox, who led #CDC's flu division for years & worked assiduously to improve global flu surveillance, died Thursday.
I learned a ton from Nancy Cox. RIP. https://t.co/vNBuYpFSpU
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