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The future of nature-based recreation in warming tropical cities

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By Perrine Hamel, Emma Ramsay, Shawnda A. Morrison, Moshe Mandelmilch, Beatrice H. Ho, Winston Chow, Su Li Heng, Lancy Sim
| Nature Verified
Abstract Nature-based recreation promotes health in tropical cities but is increasingly threatened by rising heat. This review presents recent evidence on the issue of humid heat stress and outdoor recreation in tropical cities and outlines key adaptation strategies – addressing hazard, exposure, and vulnerability – to enable ‘heat-smart’ nature-based activities.
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Trash reputation: Inside Berlin's messy raccoon problem

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By Emma Ramsay
| The Berliner Verified
In the past decade, raccoons have been found plastered throughout the pages of the German media in a story arc akin to the rise of a new celebrity. From one raccoon drunkenly passing out at a Christmas market to another sneaking in and short-circuiting a Berlin power plant to the young Waschbär that snuck aboard a BVG bus at Tempelhofer Damm last year, their exploits have fomented both popular fascination and concern in the German capital.
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The Berliners who invented the world's first pregnancy test

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By Emma Ramsay
| The Berliner Verified
In the late 1920s, the German gynaecologists Selmar Aschheim and Bernhard Zondek discovered a reaction that could reliably test for early pregnancy with around 98% accuracy. This happened in a period known to endocrine historians as the “gold rush era of hormones”, a time of intense discovery where physicians across the world entered a quasi-race to identify the different hormones of the body.
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