Equilibrium

Kuwaiti environmental company working for positive, progressive change in the region.

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

How much sunscreen should you apply, and which should you use?

Tips from a #BMJEducation article, with #BMJInfographics
https://t.co/ch7RCPPQGX

[Extreme Temperatures Around The World @extremetemps]

It's hard to fathom what Europe will live next week.
Thousands of records will be brutalized in Spain,France,UK,Benelux,Germany,Swiss,Austria and than the East
Paris might record 4 consecutive days 40C
UK will ridiculize its June national record
Germany 10 days 37C+
This is CRAZY

[Christina Koch @CK65375]

IgG from Long COVID patients attacks nerves/brain tissue. Inject into mice --> real pain, fatigue, coordination loss, nerve damage ... Matches patients perfectly. Psychosomatic bros in shambles. Autoimmunity wins.
Science > dismissal. 🧨
We need more research like this!

[Hannah Davis @ahandvanish]

Large study (av age 45) shows people with #LongCovid are 4.48x more likely to have a Major Adverse Cardiovascular Event (stroke, pulmonary embolism, heart failure) & 53% more likely to die.

True regardless of age, BMI, vaccination, variant. Risks last 3+ years from infection. 1/

[Reuters @Reuters]

In Bunia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, health experts say misinformation and mistrust are major challenges in containing the Ebola outbreak, which has caused 160 suspected deaths out of 670 suspected cases

[The BMJ @bmj_latest]

An outbreak of Ebola virus disease in central Africa has now grown to almost 600 suspected cases and 139 suspected deaths, health officials say
https://t.co/YpZlyFlvqs

[Zdenek Vrozina @ZdenekVrozina]

A new large cohort study in Frontiers in Medicine looked at people who developed shingles after COVID-19.
Could shingles after COVID be more than just a painful rash - with possible links to later blood-cancer risk?🧵

[Backpirch Weather @BackpirchCrew]

Unbelievable satellite view of the Middle East cyclone right now. It’s not very often you see something like this in the Persian Gulf region.

Over 1,400 km to the SE of the low-pressure center, the most intense supercells of this entire system just struck the United Arab Emirates and blanketed the nation in exceptionally cold thunderstorms. Towering, electric cloud tops as frigid as -90 C (-130 F) moved directly over Dubai and Abu Dhabi, delivering one of the stormiest nights in recent memory for both of these desert metropolises.

[Asseel Al-Ragam @a_alragam]

نقدم فى هذا التقرير قراءة علمية للبيئة العمرانية فى الكويت، ونركز على أنماط الاستهلاك وسلوك المستخدم، إضافة إلى استخدام الطاقة وتصميم المدن وتأثيرها على الاستدامة.

@xpgomes3
@AlshalfanS
@LSEMiddleEast
@jassimA89
https://t.co/4Fc1JSjWpP

[Equilibrium @eqcco]

“highest number of reported cases since ministry records began in 1999” #japan https://t.co/gTi3YfeQfB

[Equilibrium @eqcco]

“Clade 1b and other mpox strains have been reported across 80 countries -- 19 of them in Africa -- so far this year” https://t.co/FdvktvjxDt

[Equilibrium @eqcco]

Africa to receive just 10% of doses needed to control mpox outbreak https://t.co/SGJkioYIND via @oxfamamerica

[Clara Harter @_ClaraHarter]

Yusef, a student protester at UCLA, describes the attack at the Palestine Solidarity Encampment Last night. He received 12 staples to the back of his head after being hit by a wooden plank.

[Los Angeles Times @latimes]

Happening now at UCLA:
Students have lined up arm in arm in an effort to prevent law enforcement from getting through to the pro-Palestine encampment. Officers in riot gear stood by as rumors circulated about the encampment being dismantled.

More: https://t.co/e51stnHOIZ

[Professor Mark Maslin 👋 𝕏 @ProfMarkMaslin]

#ClimateChange 🌡️ exceptional and caused by human greenhouse gas emissions 🏭

We are causing #globalwarming 100 times faster than past natural changes

We are taking Earth’s climate beyond natural limits, with CO2 & temp levels not seen for 3 million yrs

Climate change is real

[Equilibrium @eqcco]

“These documents talk about CO2 emissions having planetary implications, meaning this industry understood extraordinarily early on that fossil fuel combustion was profound on a planetary scale,”

[Guardian Environment @guardianeco]

‘Smoking gun proof’: fossil fuel industry knew of climate danger as early as 1954, documents show https://t.co/nAnhtdA1v5

[Erin C. Sanders, MSN, WHNP-BC (She/Her) @ErinSandersNP]

The major issue we keep running into with both the pandemic and #Palestine is that people are valuing their personal FEELINGS over actual LIVES of people made vulnerable by society.

Real human beings are DYING in massive numbers.

And our political leaders are encouraging it.

[Karen Attiah @KarenAttiah]

Decades from now, there are going to be a lot of people who will pretend that they were against the industrial-scale slaughter of Palestinians.

They’ll use quotes from murdered Palestinians as a signal of goodness.

Maybe even quote Edward Said for a little razzle-dazzle.

[CIDRAP @CIDRAP]

Study shows infants exposed to COVID in utero at risk for developmental delay

At 12 months, 20.3% of COVID-exposed children and 5.9% of the controls received a diagnosis of neurodevelopmental delay.

https://t.co/M326a028sd

Joshua Rappeneker / Flickr cc

[Abier @abierkhatib]

How does life go on after enduring that unimaginable amount of loss and pain?

I’m asking questions I have no imagination for.

#Gaza