Month: August 2023
One Texas doctor considers abortion bans to be personal and professional
Doctors in Texas, the US’ second-largest state, have said that the state’s abortion bans are unclear with pregnant fetuses and brain complications. Austin Dennard, an OB-GYN, said that doctors in Texas have to choose between intervening early with the risk they could be charged for violating the abortion ban and delaying care, with the risk of their patient suing them for malpractice.
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Hilary is making its way toward California with punishing rains
The US has issued a ‘Tropical Storm Warning’ for Southern California as Tropical Storm Hilary moves across the region. “Heavy rains associated with the system are expected to cause catastrophic and life-threatening flooding to the region,” the warning stated. Hilary was downgraded to a post-tropical cyclone on Sunday, hours after it made landfall in Baja California, Mexico.
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Hilary made a name for herself in Mexico with punishing rains
Tropical storm Hilary is approaching Southern California and parts of the Southwest on Sunday, bringing fierce winds and historic rainfall to areas that have not seen tropical storm conditions in more than 80 years. Hilary is moving near the Baja California peninsula. It’s expected to sweep across southern California by the afternoon, according to the National Weather Service.
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A new discovery could help fight Chikungunya in South America
Chikungunya has been detected in mosquito bites for the first time in Argentina’s Buenos Aires. “Wherever the mosquitoes go, we’ll have chikungunya, and it’s a global concern,” the city’s Health Minister said. The first case of chikungunya was reported in Mozambique earlier this year and the virus has now been detected in Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Peru.
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Hilary is a tropical storm and it could be the first tropical storm in 80 years to hit California
Tropical storm watches were issued for the Los Angeles, Santa Barbara and Orange County areas in California after Hurricane Hilary hit Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula. Hilary is expected to bring heavy rains to the West Coast and Southwest United States through the weekend. “Tropical storm conditions are possible within the watch area, generally within 48 hours,” the National Hurricane Center said.
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Michael Oher’s petition was called offensive by the Tuohy family
Michael Oher, the former US National Football League (NFL) offensive lineman who was made famous by the 2009 film ‘The Blind Side’, has said he wants his family to end his conservatorship. “I’m grateful for letting me stay my senior year there,” he added. Oher said his family persuaded him to sign the documents that agreed to the conservatorship nearly 20 years ago.
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The Tuohy family doesn’t like Michael Oher’s petition and thinks it’s an attempt at a shakedown
Former NFL offensive lineman Michael Oher has sued Sean Tuohy and Leigh Anne Tuohy for more than $15 million (over 100 crore). Oher said he wanted the Tuohy family to be his legal guardian until he was 25 years old. The Tuohy family said that the petition was a way to satisfy the NCAA when Oher might play football at the University of Mississippi.
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In need of protection will be vast new glaciers
Rising temperatures could reduce the area covered by glaciers worldwide by more than one fifth this century, exposing vast areas of land to atmosphere for the first time in thousands of years, according to a study. Satellite radar interferometry and visocelastic modeling show there’s a solid Earth response to ice retreat, the study added. “This could be one of the largest ecosystems changes on our planet,” it further said.
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Lahaina is not Supposed to Burn Like This Anymore
The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has said that there’s “no firefighting capabilities for structure-to-structure urban fire in winds like that” in Hawaii, where a wildfire has killed 99 people. With this, it added, “There’s no firefighting capabilities for structure-to-structure urban fire in winds like that.” The fire broke out last week in the Hawaiian tourist town of Lahaina.
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See moving photos of the last days of Arecibo
A new study conducted by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education has found that Canadian institutions and US universities have some of the most flexible policies on paid parental leaves in the world. Researchers recorded data on the length of paid parental leave across institutions, the academic job and the parent type. The study analysed parental leave policies in both countries.
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