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Aug. 5, 2018
The Marine Corps training grounds on Parris Island will need a sea wall.
That’s what Assistant Commandant Glenn Walters told a congressional committee earlier this year, calling the rising seas and repeated flooding of the base a critical vulnerability.
And it’s not just Parris Island. A runway for the Marine Corp Air Station nearby in Beaufort is only a few feet from the Mulligan Creek marsh and has been rip-rapped to protect it.
In Charleston, the roads near the Coast Guard stations on the Ashley and Cooper rivers get swamped with a heavy rain during high tides.
While Congress and the administration waffle on the climate change issue, the military is preparing for the reality, said John Conger, the Center for Climate and Security director and a former Department of Defense comptroller.
Service budgets for the Pentagon now include funding for proposed mitigation projects, he said, and projects already are underway.
A number of former military leaders will speak Tuesday at the conference “Sea Level Rise & Security in South Carolina: Implications for Military & Civilian Communities.” The gathering is sponsored by the center partnering with the Charleston Resilience Network. It will be at The Citadel.
“Seventeen of the 18 hottest years on record have occurred since 2000,” said retired Marine Brig. Gen. Stephen Cheney of the American Security Project. He formerly commanded the Parris Island Recruit Depots and will speak at the conference.
The loss of space is bigger than an inconvenience, he said.
“That turns into a security issue. It turns into a tactical issue,” he said, because the ability to move troops or armament, train troops or even staff the bases all get impacted.


https://www.apnews.com/a95cd0c3eb57457c92e82eea0cae0e1c/Thousands-await-rescue-amid-deadly-south-Indian-floods
Aug. 18, 2018
Thousands of stranded people were waiting to be rescued Saturday and officials pleaded for more help as relentless monsoon floods battered the southern Indian state of Kerala, where more than 190 have died in a little over a week and much of the state is partially submerged.
Heavy rains hit parts of the state again Saturday morning, slowing attempts to deploy rescuers and get relief supplies to isolated areas. Many have seen no help for days and can only be reached by boat or helicopter.
More than 300,000 people have taken shelter in over 1,500 state-run relief camps, officials said. But authorities said they were being inundated with calls for assistance, local media reported.
Officials have called it the worst flooding in Kerala in a century, with rainfall in some areas well over double that of a typical monsoon season.
The downpours that started Aug. 8 have triggered floods and landslides and caused homes and bridges to collapse across Kerala, a picturesque state known for its quiet tropical backwaters and beautiful beaches.
Officials estimate more than 10,000 kilometers (6,200 miles) of roads have been damaged. One of the state’s major airports, in the city of Kochi, has been closed.
Meteorologists expect the rains to ease up over the next few days.

tags: severe weather, extreme weather

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uov-hfi081018.php
Public Release: 15-Aug-2018
How forests improve kids' diets
Study shows forest conservation is a powerful tool to improve nutrition in developing nations
University of Vermont
A first-of-its-kind global study shows that children in 27 developing countries have better nutrition--when they live near forests.
"The data show that forests aren't just correlated with improvements in people's diets," says Ranaivo Rasolofoson, a scientist at the University of Vermont who led the new study. "We show that forests cause these improvements."


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/aha-rbf081018.php
Public Release: 15-Aug-2018
Restoring blood flow may be best option to save your life and limb
Journal of the American Heart Association Report


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/cums-fbe080918.php
Public Release: 16-Aug-2018
First biomarker evidence of DDT-autism link
National birth cohort study finds DDT metabolites in the blood of pregnant women are associated with elevated odds of autism in offspring
Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uob-ebb081418.php
Public Release: 15-Aug-2018
Eating breakfast burns more carbs during exercise and accelerates metabolism for next meal
University of Bath


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/acs-cet081318.php
Public Release: 16-Aug-2018
American Cancer Society
A new study suggests that long-term exposure to secondhand smoke during childhood increases the risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) death in adulthood. The study also suggests secondhand smoke exposure as an adult increases the risk of death not only from COPD but also several other conditions.


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/e-sdp081618.php
Public Release: 16-Aug-2018
High maternal levels of the stress hormone cortisol during pregnancy increase anxious and depressive-like behaviors in female offspring at the age of 2, reports a new study in Biological Psychiatry. The effect of elevated maternal cortisol on the negative offspring behavior appeared to result from patterns of stronger communication between brain regions important for sensory and emotion processing. The findings emphasize the importance of prenatal conditions for susceptibility of later mental health problems in offspring.
Interestingly, male offspring of mothers with high cortisol during pregnancy did not demonstrate the stronger brain connectivity, or an association between maternal cortisol and mood symptoms.
"Many mood and anxiety disorders are approximately twice as common in females as in males.


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uol-est081618.php
Public Release: 16-Aug-2018
Just 12 weeks of aerobic and strength-based exercise reduces symptoms and levels of fatigue in patients with chronic kidney disease, a study in Leicester has found.


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uog-cdr081618.phphttps://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uog-cdr081618.php
Public Release: 16-Aug-2018
Properly composed treatment and refraining from cigarette consumption can significantly reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease resulting from type 2 diabetes, according to a study published in The New England Journal of Medicine. In some cases, the increased risks could theoretically be eliminated.


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/gsu-apr081618.php
Public Release: 16-Aug-2018
Autoimmunity plays role in development of COPD, study finds
Georgia State University


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/ats-cma081318.php
Public Release: 17-Aug-2018
The number of cases of progressive massive fibrosis (PMF) among U.S. coal miners has risen during the past two decades, even as the number of coal miners has declined, according to new research published online in the Annals of the American Thoracic Society.


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/uoh-1go081718.php
Public Release: 17-Aug-2018
How much do you change between high school and retirement? The answer depends on whether you're comparing yourself to others or to your younger self.
"The rankings (of personality traits) remain fairly consistent. People who are more conscientious than others their age at 16 are likely to be more conscientious than others at 66," said Rodica Damian, assistant professor of psychology at the University of Houston and lead author of a new study on the subject. "But, on average, everyone becomes more conscientious, more emotionally stable, and more agreeable.
Still, she said, researchers did find individual differences in change across time, with some people changing more than others and some changing in more maladaptive or harmful ways.


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-08/vt-sml081718.php
Public Release: 17-Aug-2018
Primary school students are more likely to eat a nutritional breakfast when given 10 extra minutes to do so, according to a new study by researchers at Virginia Tech and Georgia Southern University.