Cytokine and Chemokine Profile in Individuals with Different Degrees of Periportal Fibrosis due to Schistosoma mansoni Infection by Robson Da Paixão De Souza, Luciana Santos Cardoso, Giuseppe Tittoni Varela Lopes, Maria Cecília F. Almeida, Ricardo Riccio Oliveira, Leda Maria Alcântara, Edgar M. Carvalho, Maria Ilma Araujo

“…Cytokine and chemokines were measured in serum and in supernatants of PBMC cultures stimulated with the soluble adult worm (SWAP) or egg (SEA) antigens, using a sandwich ELISA. The levels of IL-5 in response to SEA were higher in individuals with moderate to severe fibrosis (310.9 pg/mL) compared to individuals without fibrosis (36.8 pg/mL; P=0.0418). …”
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Les apprentissages d’un RETEX scientifique et collectif sur l’ouragan Irma (saison cyclonique 2017, Petites-Antilles du Nord, projet ANR TIREX) by Frédéric Leone, Yann Bérard, Stéphanie Defossez, Jérémy Desarthe, Virginie Duvat, Delphine Grancher, Philippe Palany, Narcisse Zahibo

“…In particular, TIREX contributes to improve hurricane warnings, to identify inherited vulnerability factors, to understand the damage processes related to wind and sea, to monitor the dynamics of territorial and human recovery at the individual and collective levels, and more generally to strengthen the adaptation and response capacities of Lesser Antilles societies in the face of hurricanes.…”
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Climate Change and Human Health: Time to Recognize the New Threat by Y. J. Anupama

“…Global warming (GW) has cascading effects on the environment affecting rainfall, precipitation, and sea water levels. Much of the GW is due to human activity and is linked to large scale industrialization, urbanization, and combustion of fossil fuels. …”
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Natural Climate Variability Can Influence Cyanobacteria Blooms in Florida Lakes and Reservoirs by Karl E. Havens, Mark V. Hoyer, Edward J. Phlips

“…Cyanobacteria are natural in Florida lakes and reservoirs, but when they grow to high levels and bloom, they become a big problem. They look awful, smell bad, and can poison fish and other animals in the water. …”
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Evaluation of the Different Degrees of Thermal Stress in the Southern Coast of Iran by Mohammad Baaghideh, Alireza Entezari, Faezeh Shoji

“…The intensity of heat stress in the stations that located in the Persian Gulf coast was assessed generally greater than the coasts of the Oman sea. …”
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Exploring grid sensitivity in an ice sheet model: A case study of the Amery Ice Shelf by Qian-Xi Wang, Teng Li, Xiao Cheng, Chen Zhao, Lei Zheng, Qi Liang

“…The dynamics of the Antarctic ice sheet are key factors affecting global climate change. To project future sea level changes, ice sheet models are developed based on a discrete grid system, which profoundly impacts the accuracy of numerical simulations. …”
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Compound weather and climate extremes in the Asian region: science-informed recommendations for policy by R. Krishnan, Chirag Dhara, Takeshi Horinouchi, C. Kendra Gotangco Gonzales, C. Kendra Gotangco Gonzales, A. P. Dimri, A. P. Dimri, M. Singh Shrestha, P. Swapna, M. K. Roxy, Seok-Woo Son, Seok-Woo Son, D. C. Ayantika, Faye Abigail T. Cruz, Fangli Qiao

“…The third typology relates to marine extremes involving the compounding effects of ocean warming, sea-level rise, marine heatwaves, and intensifying tropical cyclones. …”
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Structures and determinants of soil microbiomes along a steep elevation gradient in Southwest China by Ting Li, Ting Li, Ting Li, Ziyan Gao, Ping Zhou, Ping Zhou, Mingmin Huang, Gangzheng Wang, Jianping Xu, Wangqiu Deng, Mu Wang, Mu Wang

“…In this study, we investigated the soil microbial diversity along an elevational gradient from 650 m to 3,800 m above sea level in southeast Tibet, China, through DNA metabarcode sequencing of both the bacterial and fungal communities. …”
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Metagenome-assembled-genomes recovered from the Arctic drift expedition MOSAiC by William Boulton, Asaf Salamov, Igor V. Grigoriev, Sara Calhoun, Kurt LaButti, Robert Riley, Kerrie Barry, Allison A. Fong, Clara J. M. Hoppe, Katja Metfies, Kersten Oetjen, Sarah Lena Eggers, Oliver Müller, Jessie Gardner, Mats A. Granskog, Anders Torstensson, Marc Oggier, Aud Larsen, Gunnar Bratbak, Andrew Toseland, Richard M. Leggett, Vincent Moulton, Thomas Mock

“…The metagenomic samples are from the surface ocean, chlorophyll maximum, mesopelagic and bathypelagic, within leads and under-ice ocean, as well as melt ponds, ice ridges, and first- and second-year sea ice. This set of MAGs can be used to benchmark microbial biodiversity in the Central Arctic Ocean, compare individual strains across space and time, and to study changes in Arctic microbial communities from the winter to summer, at a genomic level.…”
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Evidence of slow millennial cliff retreat rates using cosmogenic nuclides in coastal colluvium by R. Bossis, R. Bossis, V. Regard, S. Carretier, S. Choy

“…The integration periods of the two slowest Mediterranean coast erosion rates may encompass pre-Holocene times, during which the sea level and thus the retreat rate were much lower. …”
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An urban land surface temperature and emissivity separation algorithm from ASTER TIR data and its application by Jinglun Li, Kun Li, Yonggang Qian, Xianhui Dou, Qijin Han, Jian Zeng, Hang Zhao, Qiongqiong Lan, Zhaopeng Xu, Jiayi Bai, Baoan Wei, Xining Liu, Feng Wang, Juntao Yang, Yueming Wang

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Scoping review of climate drivers on maternal health: current evidence and clinical implicationsAJOG Global Reports at a Glance by Claire Masters, MHP, Chuhan Wu, MS, Dara Gleeson, MPH, Michaela Serafica, RN, MSN, Jordan L. Thomas, PhD, Jeannette R. Ickovics, PhD

“…The review included studies examining heat, storms, sea level rise, flooding, drought, wildfires, and other climate-related factors. …”
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Schistosoma japonicum Infection in Treg-Specific USP21 Knockout Mice by Youxiang Zhang, De-Hui Xiong, Yangyang Li, Guina Xu, Baoxin Zhang, Yang Liu, Shan Zhang, Qing Huang, Simin Chen, Fansheng Zeng, Jingyi Guo, Bin Li, Zhiqiang Qin, Zuping Zhang

“…In USP21fl/flFOXP3Cre mice, levels of IFN-gamma, IL-4, anti-soluble egg antigen (SEA) IgG and anti-soluble worm antigen preparation (SWAP) IgG increased in blood, as determined using ELISAs and multiplex fluorescent microsphere immunoassays, while the levels of IL-10, lL-17A, IL-23, IL-9, and anti-SEA IgM decreased. …”
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Understanding, anticipating and managing health risks linked to climate migration by François Gemenne

“…These migration movements are driven by sudden disasters (storms, floods, etc.) and incremental changes (rising sea levels, soil impoverishment, etc.) that are heightening the vulnerability of certain regions. …”
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Climate Change Adaptation: New Perspectives for Natural Resource Management and Conservation by Rebecca G. Harvey, Laura A. Brandt, Frank J. Mazzotti

“…As temperatures, rainfall patterns, and disturbance regimes change and sea levels rise, ecosystems are being transformed. …”
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Natural Climate Variability Can Influence Cyanobacteria Blooms in Florida Lakes and Reservoirs by Karl E. Havens, Mark V. Hoyer, Edward J. Phlips

“…Cyanobacteria are natural in Florida lakes and reservoirs, but when they grow to high levels and bloom, they become a big problem. They look awful, smell bad, and can poison fish and other animals in the water. …”
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Climate Change Adaptation: New Perspectives for Natural Resource Management and Conservation by Rebecca G. Harvey, Laura A. Brandt, Frank J. Mazzotti

“…As temperatures, rainfall patterns, and disturbance regimes change and sea levels rise, ecosystems are being transformed. …”
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Enough Sulfur and Iron for Potential Life Make Enceladus’s Ocean Fully Habitable by Weiming Xu, Can Liu, Ao Zhang, Maggie Lau, H. James Cleaves, Fang Huang, Christopher R. Glein, Jihua Hao

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Lacustrine sedimentation patterns at the Northern Antarctic Peninsula and surroundings as a response to late Holocene and Modern Climate changes by Heitor Evangelista, Sergei Verkulich, Bulat Mavlyudov, Mariza P. Souza Echer, Marcus Vinicius Licinio, Gerd Dercon, Felipe García-Rodríguez, Arthur A. Neto, Stephanie Kusch, Rodrigo C. Abuchacra, Anna B.J. Oaquim, Sérgio J. Gonçalves, Zinaida Pushina, Marília H Shimizu, Maria Heiling, Johanna Slaets, Christian Resch, Alejandra Castillo, Roman Gruber

“…These facts make this region a representative hotspot of the global sea level rise and the location of one of the global climate tipping points (thresholds in the Earth system whose changes may become irreversible, if exceeded). …”
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THE ROLE OF N. I. VAVILOV AND VIR’S SCIENTISTS IN DESERT RECLAMATION by N. I. Dzyubenko, A. A. Kochegina

“…After the transfer of the Aral Experimental Station under the jurisdiction of the Republic of Kazakhstan, expeditions collecting desert plant genetic resources, their study and building up a collection of worldwide genetic resources of desert crops were continued. At the present level, to assess salt tolerance of alfalfa transcriptome analysis was applied. …”
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