DNTF commits funds to improve chain of survival through CPR education and additional support services

In a new study, researchers estimated that smoke from wildfires and prescribed burns caused $200 billion in health damages in 2017, and that these were associated with 20,000 premature deaths. Senior citizens were harmed the most, and Native American and Black communities experienced the greatest damages per capita.

Joonmo Kang, a researcher at the University of Kansas, spent a year living in a jjokbang-chon, an extremely impoverished neighborhood in Seoul, South Korea. While there, he calculated residents' carbon footprints, finding they contribute much less to climate change than their fellow citizens, and detailed how they suffer the effects of extreme heat and other climate issues. He advocates for social work to take a role in addressing such climate injustice in a way that does not remove already limited resources from such populations.

ROCKVILLE, MD – The Biophysical Society, on behalf of its members in the U.S. and around the world, is alarmed by the ongoing reductions in force (RIFs) and how those reductions will impact the ability of federal research funding agencies to support the missions outlined by Congress. For decades the U.S. has been a world leader in critical and emerging technologies; which has attracted the best and brightest around the world to matriculate and engage in new discoveries, develop critical technologies and advance scientific research. The utilization of RIF initiatives to roll back the federal workforce threatens to have a chilling effect on development of future basic and biomedical researchers, and also jeopardizes the scientific, technological and economic advancements that have made the U.S. a global leader in scientific enterprise.