How the 2015-2016 El Niño Triggered Outbreaks Across the Globe April 5, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment The 2015-2016 El Niño event brought weather conditions that triggered regional disease outbreaks throughout the world, according to a new NASA study that is the first to comprehensively assess the public health impacts of the major climate event on a global scale. El Niño is an irregularly recurring climate pattern characterized by warmer than usual ocean temperatures in the equatorial Pacific, which creates a ripple effect of anticipated weather changes in far-spread regions of Earth. During the 2015-2016 event, changes in precipitation, land surface temperatures and vegetation created and facilitated conditions for transmission of diseases, resulting in an uptick in reported cases for plague and hantavirus in Colorado and New Mexico, cholera in Tanzania, and dengue fever in Brazil and Southeast Asia, among others. Music: Under Offer by Peter Keith Yelland-Brown This video is public domain and along with other supporting visualizations can be downloaded from the Scientific Visualization Studio at: http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/13152 Credit: NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center/LK Ward
How Air Pollution Kills March 12, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment Four million people around the world who already die annually from air pollution–related diseases. Brian Palmer [@palmerbrian (TW), Brian Palmer (FB), @brianmpalmer (IG)] goes inside those numbers—and your lungs—to understand how air pollution kills.
Unfortunately, Ready to Wear: a Concept Collection by Luka Sabbat March 9, 2019 / activist360 / Leave a comment Continue reading →