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      The Best Foods for Lung Health Add these foods to your diet to keep your lungs healthy and strong. Science Photo Library/Getty Images When it comes to lung health, you've likely heard the usual advice:  avoid (or quit) smoking , stay away from highly polluted areas and exercise regularly. However, you might not realize that eating the right foods is also an excellent way to promote healthy lung function. Like the rest of your body, your lungs benefit from a balanced diet full of  essential nutrients, vitamins and minerals . But there are also some particularly powerful foods that can help you protect the health of your lungs and reduce the risk or symptoms of lung-related diseases, such as  asthma  and  chronic obstructive pulmonary disease . Below, you'll find seven of the best foods for lung health, including the key nutrients to bring into your diet if you're looking to boost lung function and prevent disease.

  In case you hadn’t noticed, things aren’t fine with our planet. But as Greta Thunberg would say,  some of us still aren’t panicking  enough.  Warm temperatures baked Earth in the first half of 2020 , and  19 of the last 20 years  are the warmest on record.  Extreme weather events are getting worse , and  the Arctic is not looking good , even though  nations around the globe have committed to keeping global temperatures below 2 degrees Celsius , or 35.6 degrees Fahrenheit.  Still, it can be hard to get your head around exactly how human-induced climate change is affecting our globe when each day we just go about our daily lives, scrolling through TikTok and making carefree weekend plans (well, before pandemic, anyway). If you actually hear from those at the forefront of this emergency, along with scientists and researchers, you might be moved to realise it’s  everyone's problem —  and to act in ways that might help fix it. Bei...

  NETFLIX Remarkably, of all forms of  film , the  documentary genre  provides a story more bizarre than fiction. And if any streamer knows that, it's Netflix. The platform has really leaned into the genre of late, serving up some of the strangest, most compelling, and complex deep dives on fascinating real-life stories. The best of Netflix's slate of documentaries provide crucial perspectives on our weird world. Though if we're being honest, it can be hard to parse through the annals of Netlfix's infamous algorithm to find which films are worth your time. Is it finally time to watch  Seaspiracy  (and maybe swear off fish from your diet) or is it time to rev your metaphorical engine and cue up the Formula 1-focused  Schumacher ? Perhaps it's time to  scale the highest mountains  of the world, all from the comfort of your couch. To help you out, we've narrowed down the list of the best documentaries on Netflix, no matter if you’re looking to e...

Persistent identifiers – or PIDs – are long-lasting references to digital resources. In other words, they are a unique label to an entity: a person, place, or thing. PIDs work by redirecting the user to the online resource, even if the location of that resource changes. They also have associated metadata which contains information about the entity and also provide links to other PIDs. For example, many scholars already populate their ORCID records, linking themselves to their research outputs through Crossref and DataCite DOIs. As the PID ecosystem matures, to include PIDs for grants ( Crossref grant IDs ), projects ( RAiD ), and organisations ( ROR ), the connections between PIDs form a graph that describes the research landscape. In this post, Phill Jones talks about the work that the MoreBrains cooperative has been doing to show the value of a connected PID-based infrastructure. Over the past year or so, we at MoreBrains have been working with a number of national-level resea...

For nearly three decades the UN has been bringing together countries from around the globe to hold climate summits on how to address the growing climate crisis. Last year’s Conference of the Parties (COP) in Glasgow (delayed by a year due to the pandemic) took major steps toward addressing the climate crisis, but failed to deliver the national commitments required to together limit warming globally to 1.5C laid out by the Paris Agreement. After a year of extreme weather events, from record heatwaves to disastrous flooding, this year’s COP27 in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, will be crucial as the world seeks to take steps together toward mitigating and preventing the worst impacts of climate change.  A UN Climate Change ‘Global Innovation Hub’ (UGIH) will be held during COP27, accessible digitally for the first time to enable greater collaboration, and is set to “ ratchet up the scale and effectiveness of innovation in tackling climate change and help deliver on the UN’s Sustainable D...