As temperatures rise, dengue fever infections keep surging around the world

As temperatures rise, dengue fever infections keep surging around the world

This story is part of CBC Health’s Second Opinion, a weekly analysis of health and medical science news emailed to subscribers on Saturday mornings. If you haven’t subscribed yet, you can do that by clicking here. In Bangladesh, roughly 300,000 people have been infected with dengue this year during the country’s worst-ever outbreak of the mosquito-transmitted disease. … Read more

Researchers used Hurricane Larry to prove ocean microplastics can be swept inland as air pollution

Researchers used Hurricane Larry to prove ocean microplastics can be swept inland as air pollution

As Hurricane Larry lashed Newfoundland in 2021, university students from Halifax headed to a rural area in its track to find out whether the ocean might whip microplastics up into the atmosphere then transport them by air to otherwise pristine communities. The results, you could say, blew their socks off. “It was such, like, an astonishing result that we … Read more

Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City to have green innovation park, be a model for other Chinese cities

Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City to have green innovation park, be a model for other Chinese cities

SHIPPING CORRIDOR, COOPERATION INITIATIVES Singapore and Tianjin will also establish a green and digital shipping corridor – the first such corridor to connect the two countries. The corridor will be a testbed for both countries to pilot and trial digital solutions, alternative fuels and technologies, as well as facilitate manpower development to support the decarbonisation and digitalisation … Read more

Microsoft’s president meets with the Chinese government to talk AI

Microsoft’s president meets with the Chinese government to talk AI

Microsoft CEO Brad Smith participates in a meeting at The Westin Palace Hotel, on 20 May, 2022 in Madrid, Spain. Cezaro De Luca | Europa Press | Getty Images Microsoft President Brad Smith met with China’s Minister of Commerce Wang Wentao on Wednesday to discuss topics ranging from artificial intelligence to trade relations between Washington … Read more