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U.N. report: 85,000 cases of femicide in 2023. And that's likely an undercount

NPR Health

These are women murdered by an intimate partner, a family member, a rapist, a stranger randomly assaulting females. Laws do not always offer protection and justice. What needs to be done? Image credit: Anuwar Hazarika/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

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WHO report highlights surge in TB cases and deaths in 2023

News Medical Health Sciences

The highest number of tuberculosis (TB) cases since global monitoring began were recorded in 2023, according to a report published by the World Health Organization (WHO).

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2023 was the hottest summer in two thousand years

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

Researchers have found that 2023 was the hottest summer in the Northern Hemisphere in the past two thousand years, almost four degrees warmer than the coldest summer during the same period.

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Record heat in 2023 worsened global droughts, floods and wildfires

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Record heat across the world profoundly impacted the global water cycle in 2023, contributing to severe storms, floods, megadroughts and bushfires, new research shows.

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NASA analysis confirms 2023 as warmest year on record

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Earth's average surface temperature in 2023 was the warmest on record, according to an analysis by NASA. Global temperatures last year were around 2.1 degrees Fahrenheit (1.2 degrees Celsius) above the average for NASA's baseline period (1951-1980), scientists from NASA's Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS) in New York reported.

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Fossil CO2 emissions at record high in 2023

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Global carbon emissions from fossil fuels have risen again in 2023 -- reaching record levels, according to new research.

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Climate-change-triggered 2023 mega-landslide caused Earth to vibrate for nine days

Science Daily: Pharmacology News

The study concluded that this movement of water was the cause of a mysterious, global seismic signal that lasted for nine days and puzzled seismologists in September 2023.

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