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Trees Could Be a Mental, Physical and Climate Change Antidote
"Is well known. The trees help counter climate change by soaking up carbon dioxide. Now there is a growing body of research to point to many ways of dose of trees can improve our mental and physical health. Here's martha bebinger member station. W. b. you are on how and why the tiny sapling robin williams planted thirty years ago towers above her boston home. I raise this tree when i raised my children and look at this look at that. She says there's something about being near this tree. It makes everybody a little bit happy around here when you're looking for strength you can't do better than looking at a tree and there's evidence williams may will be gleaning any number of direct or associated health benefits a longer life. Bitter birth outcomes lower stress levels lower risk of heart disease. Dr howard lumpkin. Is it the university of washington school of public health. Lower risk of diabetes reduced symptoms of adhd proximity to trees is associated with a ridiculously broad range of health benefits. I wish we had pills. That were this good for health. A few countries notably japan and south korea have invested in a practice known as forest bathing which is spending time among trees as a preventive health measure but prescribing time in nature is still pretty far outside mainstream medicine in the. Us from can says that. Maybe because there's a lot we don't know what doses needed. Do you need to walk. Among trees is sufficient just to look at the trees from outside your window. Do you need big trees or do small trees do the trick we you know. We're not able to tease the forest from the trees. Peter james at harvard medical school aims to answer a lot of those questions. He's merging health data captured by phones. Real time surveys about wellbeing and mood and street. View mapping data to dig into. What's exactly within view. Is it trees. Is it flowers and how those things are related to help behaviors and health outcomes.
Adams on Agriculture
"martha bebinger" Discussed on Adams on Agriculture
"Fundamentals will eventually rule out here. Yeah it just makes it hard to understand because as you said always before it was oh we have all these stocks even if we have a smaller crop this year. We have all these. We don't have now and as we look at production even if it rains in some of those dry areas. We're not going to grow a record crop. I mean isn't that pretty much a given so It doesn't seem like there's there should be any any fuel there to drive. The market's down really even if you get some rain in the forecast that's right and and there's not enough it should not be driving down there and you never wanna say an absolute marcus because markets can humble you very quickly and it's and you mentioned it kind of losing quickly crock condition and we saw basically crop stable this week and that that's the good news and people criticize them and they're not writing people they don't take it seriously but the trade does from an analyst point of view and i look crop additions. I create an index on all the crop conditions. You know looking at everything from very poor to excellent to see what that score comes up. And when i look at those crop conditions that index lands and look at it versus you know into their crop conditions versus yield. You know we're not particularly with beans even close to the usda's beans look like they're going to be under fifty bushels acre you know based on current national crop conditions and korda hundred. Seventy eight is probably a little generous or little. You know that is a little generous at this point. So you're exactly right. These yields aren't here. The market is just going to you know. visit meat. Markets expectations markets will go crazy and we saw that after the acreage numbers. Martha's like holy macaroni up. We went so you know this. Is the weather market the fundamentals. The the reactions to reports tells you there's a lot of again a lot of risk a lot of volatility and a lot of uncertainty that we have not you know all settled out yet. Donkey with steve nicholson grain and oilseeds analysts. For robbo agra finance. So steve as as as you look at that picture in farmer to saying how much do i sell a head how much you know. It's just hard to figure right especially and we've talked about this four if you're in those areas that really hard hit there so it doesn't matter how high the prices are have nothing to sell or very little cell won't matter so A lot of tough marketing decisions here. Yeah it all. This can't be each year. You think well of martha bebinger next year and it seems like they're not just like there's always been this year. You're you've laid it out. Well there's just so many things to consider if an eastern corn belt the decisions little easier because you have a crop of the field. It's it isn't better condition. It's getting rain and you look like you're going to be able to produce a crop. So that's we'll let them aside. They you know that depends on what you know what they're martin with their margins are goals are. How much did they sold so far. And if they haven't so anything. I would certainly curry's them to think about that because you're still awful martin territory and look beyond the western corner certainly is a much more difficult situation You don't know what you're going to get. I always admired him. That you do have crop insurance as the backstop and you do know what it costs you to put that crop in. And so if you haven't sold anything. I i still believe you should do if you've already sold some crop and maybe at these levels or higher doesn't really matter. I think that's a much more difficult decision to move forward. And you probably need to just sort of sit a little bit you know. It's almost day for day for day. Decision house crop looking. What kind of moisture getting. What is your forecast. And and what kind of risk adverse. And how is your crop insurance lined up for you You know because you're going to. Hopefully you have revenue insurance That will help you get through. If this thing does not turn out well but it. I always remind people We've talked about this before. If i told you there was a five in front of the corn market and there was a a twelve or thirteen or fourteen of other soybean martha year ago. You would have done. You would have been all over that. So let's keep that in perspective from the standpoint of the ability to sell it these prices ability to lock in profit margins which again makes everyone sleep better at night. So let's keep that in perspective. But i certainly am very conscious very empathetic to the situation in the western corner. Bill how do you assess that. And it's it's always a discussion with them is to talk about what is what's the worst crop you produced in where what that end up in a drought situation was that and keep that in mind again. Put that perspective of what is what is the worst scenario and then think about it from that perspective as well thinking about the higher prices Again if you have something to sell but it's a reminder so much better than what it was a you know before this rally starts but it doesn't solve all problems that doesn't make everything just easier. I mean there's still tough decisions that's right. This is tough. I mean there's never it's never an easy decision whether you're on. The selling side is green farm on the buying side is a livestock producer. What do you do now particularly from the west in the western cornball it it is extremely difficult and you're right the reason part of the reason we're here from a high price respected the demand. Decide is it because we had supply. She's last year. And and i always think about the drought map and look at the drought monitor. Right wrong or different if you look at it. Today versus a year ago the western cornmeal looks substantially worse condition. Did a year ago. So that's that's what makes me look. Think about the thing. We're we're not. We're not out of the woods yet on this so i think we have to think about that perspective as well but it is a there is not an easy decision. I'm not going to sit here and say this is what i mean i. It's difficult to this is what you ought to do. And it's for everyone because there's so many different cases. What is your what is your prospects. What is your weather prospect. What ripple. I mean how much to parade difficult decision. Rot a lot to take into consideration for sure stinks. Thanks to talk with you. appreciate it. Franken mike good to talk to you. The always steve nicholson grain and oilseeds analysts. For robbo agra finance don perish wrapping up a long distinguished career with american farm bureau. Federation joins us. Next we'll talk quotas and more on. Koa hi this. Is mike adams you're listening to a. Oh a adams on agriculture. Don't go away more adams on agriculture. Coming right up fifty four so basically. It's too late to start saving for retirement right. Starting to save even in your fifties can really make a difference. Well right now. Saving seems hard to wrap my head around plus with the way this has been going. Hey listen it's okay. You still got this. Just go to acer retirement dot org. It's an online tool from. Aarp that can help you. Get your retirement savings on track. No.
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Medical Residents To Receive Education On Health Effects Of Climate Change
"Teaching doctors about the health effects of climate change is growing from medical schools to the residency programs where new physicians put their skills to the test. But skeptics wonder if it's appropriate for doctors to learn how climate change can affect Human Health Martha Bebinger of member station W. R. in Boston Begins Her story in clinic exam room. I just remember for so many months it was hard for you to walk. There are three people in this exam room doctor Gora. A resident he's training and seventy one year old Steve Kerns who is recovering from West Nile virus, Kerns remembers the mosquito bite on his neck but very little about the brain infection that landed him in the hospital for a week for at least six months after that. I felt like every five minutes I was being run over by a truck I couldn't work. I couldn't walk very well. And I couldn't focus. A wondered for bit if I'd ever get better now, almost two years later Kern says he's back to about five hours a day on the job making windows and doors, and he started reading again the sounds like you've made tremendous progress. Dr. Charlotte Roses is a third year primary care resident at Cambridge Hospital. It seems like tremendous progress. that. It was scary. It was scary. It was it was definitely scary us and I'm not scared anymore although. Can I get worse now over again, Dr seuss sympathizes with the fear West Nile is still rare. There were no cases in Massachusetts before two thousand and two in two, thousand, eighteen year a mosquito bit kerns cases had climbed to forty nine mosquitoes love warm temperatures and so when temperatures increase mosquitoes can have breeding seasons the virus itself West alka replicate faster and they. Bite more more active Basu learned a lot of this while treating, Kerns. He was buses i West Nile case when someone comes in with a fever and his confused, it's not what my mind thinks of as the diagnosis right away. This case has really taught me how much I need to be informed about the ways in which climate change is changing the patterns of infectious. Disease. Around the United States to inform his residence busu added the health impacts of climate change to an elective courses teaches Ross says residents need much more. This is something that needs to be more directly integrated into the curriculum because I think it's going to have such a huge impact on human health. There are no approved curricula for hospitals that might want to tell emerging. Lung specialists about longer pollen seasons as temperatures rise or teach new emergency room physicians to consider more waterborne diseases for patients with fever and diarrhea. But Pediatrician Rebecca Phillips born at Emory University has just published. A framework hospitals can use as a starting point. Patients want physicians to be able to provide guidance on things that affect their individual help. We have this accumulating body of. That climate change does just that it poses harms to our patients Dr Stanley Goldfarb, the former associate dean for curriculum at the University of Pennsylvania's medical school says hospitals trained doctors not. He worries that discussing climate change with patients might create mistrust I. Think there are concerns about getting into the political sphere because I'm against anything that's going to. represent a barrier between patients and physicians being comfortable with each other other physicians. See Wildfires, sweeping western states and hurricanes flooding the Gulf coast and say, we want to impart this information to our residents as fast as we can because it's so important that they gain this information sooner than later advocates say including climate change in residency training won't stick and tell doctors are tested on the health effects before they are licensed to practice medicine for NPR news I'm Martha Bebinger in Boston.
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White House announces ban on most transgender service members
"Live from npr news in washington i'm kyle snyder thousands of young people will march in washington dc and in cities across the country today to push for stricter gun control legislation bears windsor johnston reports of march for our allies protests marks a second major push of teenage activism against gun violence following last one school shooting in parkland florida the studentled rally is the latest push for congress to pass laws that address on violence in schools safety last week thousands of young people stage nationwide school walkouts as part of their pledge to keep the pressure on lawmakers shannon watts founder of moms demand action says the shooting in parkland marked at turning point in the gun control debate i really do think that what happened in in parkland was distraught that broke the camel's back for the country and americans realized we don't have to live this way we certainly don't have to die this way and we have the power to take our nation back from the gum several pro gun organizations are expected to hold counter protests in cities around the country windsor johnston npr news washington police officer involved in the supermarket attack in southern france is being hailed as a hero today after dying of his injuries police lieutenant colonel arno beltran was found injured after police stormed the supermarket bill trim had voluntarily agreed to swap himself with the last remaining hostage president trump has replaced a complete ban on transgender military service with one that makes a few exceptions he issued his latest order last night from member station wb you are in boston martha bebinger reports the white house policy released late friday night replaces a trans troop ban president trump announced via twitter in july the revision raises many questions about whether current trans military members would be discharged and whether any recruits would be allowed in says matt thorne president of the lgbt group out serve it's the chaos that this administration has caused that is undermining our readiness in our lethality in our capabilities not trans servicemembers actually serving and defending this country the ban is on hold while four lawsuits moved through the federal courts for npr news i'm martha bebinger in.