Pacific climate disaster costs and average loss of GDP for countries affected, averaged across the pacific ($AUD billions.) Credit: Escalating Emergencies: 20 Years of Pacific Climate Disasters (2024) Climate disasters are costing the Pacific eight times more than they did a decade ago The number of people impacted by climate disasters in the Pacific increased … Read more
A concerning increase in global rates of severe invasive infections becoming resistant to key antibiotics has a team of infectious disease researchers at the Houston Methodist Research Institute studying a recently emerged strain of bacteria called Streptococcus dysgalactiae subspecies equisimilis (SDSE). SDSE infects humans via the skin, throat, gastrointestinal tract and female genital tract to … Read more
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Rising numbers of houses and flats listed as short-term lets on Airbnb are associated with higher rates of crimes such as burglaries and street robberies right across London, according to the most detailed study of its kind. The latest research has revealed a positive association between the number of properties listed … Read more