cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/upliftingnews/p/2152493/ev-popularity-in-china-accounts-for-262000-fewer-deaths-from-air-pollution

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/solarpunk/p/2152492/ev-popularity-in-china-accounts-for-262000-fewer-deaths-from-air-pollution

The results were a 23.8% reduction in PM2.5, and a 30% reduction in carbon monoxide, resulting in some 320,000 fewer deaths from air pollution.

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/39443842

Images of crowded beaches or people swimming in pools are known to make extreme weather seem less dangerous.

An under-appreciated research powerhouse, Europe has a responsibility to champion democratic science that is accessible to all the world’s research talent.

Ten years ago, in response to the arrival of hundreds of thousands of people fleeing the repression of the Arab Spring, the EU instigated the “hotspot” policy. As I wrote back then, the term “hotspot” can be traced back to New York’s 1980s zero-tolerance policy and the first introduction of computing into police operations. The idea was that instead of responding to crimes after they happen, police units sit and wait at predicted “hotspots” to intervene before a crime happens. In 2016, the name was applied to a new method of detaining people on arrival in Europe, enforcing mass fingerprinting, screenings, and smuggling investigations. The “crime” was illegal entrance, the “heat” was simply people, and the “spots” were Mediterranean islands, from Lesbos to Lampedusa. For a decade, the hotspots have staggered onward without any proper definition under EU or national laws, a legal limbo in a political mess.

The New Asylum Pact coming into effect this month changes this — by finally regulating mass detention, engraving it into EU law. All people arriving in Europe can now be held in detention centers for up to 2.5 years while their claims are being examined. In order to do this, the new pact explicitly uses a contorted line of reasoning called the “legal fiction of non-entry,” authorizing member states to treat people physically present on national territory as if they were officially still outside of Europe.

cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/47751283

Lifted from https://mastodon.social/@eunews/116801652466456454.

Paywall? https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.ft.com/content/f3044cb3-081b-49e3-a79a-dbff0a4e7163

China has ​become a major source of new medicines and clinical research, ‌reshaping the global pharmaceutical-industry landscape, Pfizer Chief International Commercial Officer Alexandre de Germay said at an event hosted by industry lobby group the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries ​and Associations (EFPIA).

"Today, 40% of all clinical studies in oncology in ​the world are in China," de Germay said. "The volume of ⁠innovation that is coming out of biotech in China is just amazing."

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/31597508

Great timing and phrasing. "Be slow about slop development ooor.. Burn everyone and everything!"

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer won his job after leading his party to a massive victory in 2024. Less than two years later, he resigned as his party rebelled in the wake of widespread losses in local elections.

Starmer’s popularity plunged amid a struggling economy, a series of policy missteps, one particularly poor appointment and a perceived lack of vision.

The combination of challenges led to a thrashing for his Labour Party in local elections this spring and calls to step down that cleared a path for a would-be challenger to step forward and ultimately force him aside Monday.

This is a look at how his short-lived premiership unraveled.