Southern Nevada Health District releases 2025 Community Health Assessment
LAS VEGAS – The Southern Nevada Health District, in collaboration with community partners, has released the 2025 Community Health Assessment (CHA), a comprehensive evaluation of Clark County’s health needs, strengths and available resources. The assessment is now available on the Healthy Southern Nevada website. As part of the prioritization process, the Health District and community […]
Doctor Looks To Provide Abortions At Off-Shore Site After Roe Reversal
A Bay Area doctor is looking to circumvent Southern states’ abortion restrictions through a “floating health clinic” on federal waters in the Gulf of Mexico. Advertisement PRROWESS – or “Protecting Reproductive Rights Of Women Endangered by State Statutes” – won’t be subject to state abortion restrictions like those in the states that border the Gulf, […]
New economic model finds wetlands provide billions in filtration value: Wetlands in Southern Ontario provide $4.2 billion in water filtration services each year
Southern Ontario wetlands provide $4.2 billion worth of sediment filtration and phosphorus removal services each year, keeping our drinking water sources clean and helping to mitigate harmful and nuisance algal blooms in our lakes and rivers. A new study from the University of Waterloo uses economic valuation to help us understand the importance of Southern […]
Closest pair of supermassive black holes yet
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have revealed the closest pair of supermassive black holes to Earth ever observed. The two objects also have a much smaller separation than any other previously spotted pair of supermassive black holes and will eventually merge into one giant black hole. Voggel and her […]
Black hole found hiding in star cluster outside our galaxy
Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky Way by looking at how it influences the motion of a star in its close vicinity. This is the first time this detection method has been used to reveal the presence of a black hole […]