Tag: "summers" at medical news

Skin Cancer Rates Soar In Warmer Regions Of UK

...rnwall . According to dermatologists, though the summers get increasingly hot each year, Britons are still not aware of how to protect themselves from the deadly rays. Official figures declare malignant melanoma to be the UK's fastest growing cancer, with rates tripling in the three decades to 2003, the ...

Human Induced Global Warming Drying Up Arctic Ponds

...of decades ago, but because of global warming, the summers are warmer, so the ponds are losing more water to ...nking, and two or three went completely dry in the summers of 2005 and 2006," he said. "We've seen, in our lifetime, in front of our eyes, some of these pon...

Benetton Perfumes Add Fragrance to Sweaty Summers

... perfumes called 'Cotton' to make the hot , sweaty summers fresh and fragrant. The new range is available in three variations - Woman, Man and Unisex. The Benetton Group has signed an agreement with Selective Beauty, a Paris-based international cosmetic group, for the development and worldwide distributi...

Modest Increase in Urban Parks Could Equalize Global Warming Until 2080s

...ng our cities, said Dr Ennos. "By the 2080s, our summers will be hotter and drier but winters are predicted to become wetter. An extreme wet winters day by the 2080s will deliver almost 50% more rain than is currently experienced. Based on an existing model, we have calculated that these more powerful sto...

Europe Faces Threat Of Rise In Infectious Diseases

...aid, "The view is that it is not because of warmer summers but because winters are not as cold as they used to be." He also added, "There are already very clear signals that infectious diseases are changing as a result of climate change." VIK...

Heat Avoidance Advice Insufficient During Heat Waves

... It would be tragic if the main response to hotter summers is to install inefficient air conditioning and to miss the opportunity to develop effective and more equitable health protection measures for extreme weather, she concludes. (Source: Newswise) ...

Species Linking Fish And Land Animals Found

... step." The new fossils were collected during four summers of exploration in Canada's Nunavut Territory, 600 miles from the North Pole, by paleontologists from the Academy of Natural Sciences in Philadelphia, the University of Chicago and Harvard University. Although the team has amassed a diverse assemblage...

Rise In Waterborne And Malaria Cases Anticipated In Britain

... most of the changes are going to be around hotter summers and more frequency heavy rainfall. We already know that food poisoning is related to temperature. This is because if you leave food outside the fridge at warm temperatures germs grow. There's an interesting area around climate that's how is it going ...

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