Tuesday, January 31, 2023

EPA blocks catastrophic mining project in Bristol Bay, Alaska

EPA blocks catastrophic mining project in Bristol Bay, Alaska
The US EPA took a major step toward protecting one of the world’s most important wild salmon fisheries in Bristol Bay, Alaska, by blocking a potentially catastrophic copper and gold mining project.

Published January 30, 2023 at 06:00PM
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Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Protecting the Amazon's swimways

Protecting the Amazon's swimways
WWF and partners reviewed the use of more than 200,000 miles of Amazonian rivers by long-distance migratory fish and turtle species and river dolphins to map the most important routes.

Published January 24, 2023 at 06:00PM
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Friday, January 13, 2023

Eliminating fisheries crime calls for innovative partnerships. WWF just helped launch one.

Eliminating fisheries crime calls for innovative partnerships. WWF just helped launch one.
WWF and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Global Maritime Crime Program have launched a new partnership to advance innovative knowledge-sharing to protect the waters around Ecuador.

Published January 16, 2023 at 06:00PM
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Friday, January 6, 2023

Stethoscope

Stethoscope: A surprising investigation of a scientific instrument long at the pulse of medicine.   This book explores the colorful past, present, and future of an instrument that is, quite literally, close to our hearts. The stethoscope has become the symbol of medicine itself—how did this come to be? What makes the stethoscope such a familiar yet charismatic object? Drawing from a range of fields including history, anthropology, science, technology, and sound studies, the book illustrates the variety of roles the stethoscope has played over time. It shows that the stethoscope is not, and has never been, a single entity. It is used to a variety of ends, serves several purposes, and is open to many interpretations. This variability is the key to the stethoscope’s enduring presence in the medical and popular imagination.

Dr. Nurse

Dr. Nurse: An analysis of the efforts of American nurses to establish nursing as an academic discipline and nurses as valued researchers in the decades after World War II. Nurses represent the largest segment of the U.S. health care workforce and spend significantly more time with patients than any other member of the health care team. Dr. Nurse probes their history to examine major changes that have taken place in American health care in the second half of the twentieth century. The book reveals how federal and state health and higher education policies shaped education within health professions after World War II. Starting in the 1950s, academic nurses sought to construct a science of nursing—distinct from that of the related biomedical or behavioral sciences—that would provide the basis for nursing practice. Their efforts transformed nursing’s labor into a valuable site of knowledge production and proved how the application of their knowledge was integral to improving patient outcomes. Exploring the knowledge claims, strategies, and politics involved as academic nurses negotiated their roles and nursing’s future, Dr. Nurse highlights how state-supported health centers have profoundly shaped nursing education and health care delivery.

Wednesday, December 28, 2022

5 ways WWF helped fight the climate crisis in 2022

5 ways WWF helped fight the climate crisis in 2022
Here are five ways that WWF helped to fight the climate crisis in 2022.

Published December 27, 2022 at 06:00PM
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Thursday, December 22, 2022

A big win for the planet – and people – in Alaska

A big win for the planet – and people – in Alaska
A 44,000-acre conservation easement will protect four of the world's most important rivers for salmon habitat.

Published December 21, 2022 at 06:00PM
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Monday, December 19, 2022

World strikes agreement to stop biodiversity loss

World strikes agreement to stop biodiversity loss
In a big win for biodiversity, countries struck a global agreement to halt and reverse nature loss during negotiations in Montreal.

Published December 18, 2022 at 06:00PM
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Thursday, December 15, 2022

3 ways the US is taking action to protect biodiversity

3 ways the US is taking action to protect biodiversity
These actions send a signal to the world, but there’s a lot more to do

Published December 14, 2022 at 06:00PM
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Wednesday, December 14, 2022

Tuesday, December 13, 2022

Conservation highlights of 2022

Conservation highlights of 2022
Despite the dual threats of a rapidly warming planet and declining biodiversity, we still made major conservation strides toward protecting wildlife, wild places, and people in 2022.

Published December 12, 2022 at 06:00PM
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Monday, December 12, 2022

Thursday, December 8, 2022

Meet Alexia Leclercq, WWF’s 2022 Conservation Leadership Award Winner

Meet Alexia Leclercq, WWF’s 2022 Conservation Leadership Award Winner
Leclercq is a grassroots organizer, educator, scholar, and artist whose primary focus is on environmental justice.

Published December 07, 2022 at 06:00PM
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Wednesday, December 7, 2022

Saturday, December 3, 2022

Making Sense of Medicine

Making Sense of Medicine: A critical reflection on the relationship between materials and the reproduction of medical knowledge.  Medical knowledge manifests in materials, and materials are integral to the reproduction of medical knowledge. From the novice student to the expert practitioner, those who study and work in and around medicine rely on material guidance in their everyday practice and as they seek to further their craft. To that end, this edited collection brings together historians, anthropologists, educators, artists, and curators to explore the role of materiality in medical education.  With a broad temporal focus and international scope, the volume focuses on the materials, objects, tools, and technologies that facilitate the reproduction of medical knowledge and often also reify understandings of medical science. Experimental in form and supplemented with ethnographic, museological, and historical cases from around the world, this edited volume is the first to fully explore the matter of medical education in the modern world.

Friday, December 2, 2022

International wildlife trade talks lead to more protections for animals

International wildlife trade talks lead to more protections for animals
The talks concluded with new and renewed global protections against poaching, illegal, and unsustainable trade in wild animals and plants that could help reverse trends driving biodiversity loss.

Published December 01, 2022 at 06:00PM
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Tuesday, November 29, 2022

How Wildlife Help Combat the Climate Crisis

How Wildlife Help Combat the Climate Crisis
By conserving wildlife, from otters and elephants to tigers and oysters, we help protect the planet, including ourselves.

Published November 28, 2022 at 06:00PM
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Friday, November 25, 2022

The Doctor Who Wasn’t There

The Doctor Who Wasn’t There: This gripping history shows how the electronic devices we use to access care influence the kind of care we receive.The Doctor Who Wasn’t There traces the long arc of enthusiasm for—and skepticism of—electronic media in health and medicine. Over the past century, a series of new technologies promised to democratize access to healthcare. From the humble telephone to the connected smartphone, from FM radio to wireless wearables, from cable television to the “electronic brains” of networked mainframe computers: each new platform has promised a radical reformation of the healthcare landscape. With equal attention to the history of technology, the history of medicine, and the politics and economies of American healthcare, physician and historian Jeremy A. Greene explores the role that electronic media play, for better and for worse, in the past, present, and future of our health. Today’s telehealth devices are far more sophisticated than the hook-and-ringer telephones of the 1920s, the radios that broadcasted health data in the 1940s, the closed-circuit televisions that enabled telemedicine in the 1950s, or the online systems that created electronic medical records in the 1960s. But the ethical, economic, and logistical concerns they raise are prefigured in the past, as are the gaps between what was promised and what was delivered. Each of these platforms also produced subtle transformations in health and healthcare that we have learned to forget,...

Wednesday, November 23, 2022

COP27 wrap up: funding the end of the world and other thoughts

COP27 wrap up: funding the end of the world and other thoughts
All international climate talks begin with high hopes, and COP27 was seen as the moment for implementation and climate justice. Instead, it may be remembered as the COP of unmet expectations.

Published November 22, 2022 at 06:00PM
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Monday, November 21, 2022

Predators of predators: the snaring crisis threatening the survival of Asia's big cats

Predators of predators: the snaring crisis threatening the survival of Asia's big cats
Snares, rudimentary traps that people have set by the millions on forest floors and snowy mountain pathways across Asia, are barely visible to the eye and a fatal danger to all wildlife.

Published November 20, 2022 at 06:00PM
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What happened to all the American Chestnuts?

 The American Chestnut Insect Ecology Series What happened to the Insects that feed on them? Every species is connected in an ecosystem. The...