内容摘要：Even as universities and institutes think about recruiting talent from the U.S., there’s more apprehension than glee at the funding cuts.

Even as universities and institutes think about recruiting talent from the U.S., there’s more apprehension than glee at the funding cuts.

People wait for a bus at a cool bus stop in Ahmedabad, India, Wednesday, April 2, 2025. (AP Photo/Ajit Solanki)Heat is the city’s biggest problem and heat waves — continuous days of extreme heat — are increasing, said Dr. Tejas Shah of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation, who oversees the city’s heat action plan. “We are in the period of climate change, and it has already shown its effect,” said Shah.

Shah and other city officials said the onset of summer has become a testing time and efforts such as cool roofs and cool bus stops are reducing heat-related illness and deaths. As climate projections predict only hotter and longer summers for his city, Shah said being prepared is the only thing to do.“It (the heat) needs to be addressed in the proper way,” he said.Follow Sibi Arasu on X at

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ROMA (AP) — El papa León XIV se declaró romano el domingo al completar los pasos ceremoniales finales que consolidan su papel como obispo de Roma.

El primer papa estadounidense tomó formalmente posesión de la Basílica de San Juan de Letrán, que es la catedral de Roma y sede de la diócesis, con una misa vespertina a la que asistieron sacerdotes y fieles romanos.Researchers at the University of Oxford

that vegans have 30% of the dietary environmental impact as people who eat high amounts of meat. Vegans produced 25% of greenhouse gas emissions and land use impact, 46% of water use, 27% of water pollution and 34% of the impact on biodiversity than the top meat-eaters.Significantly, even low-meat diets contributed only about 70% of the environmental impact of high-meat diets, wrote Keren Papier, a co-author of the study.

“You don’t have to go full vegan or even vegetarian to make a big difference,” Papier said.Younger people could be key. They may be open to new ways of eating because they’re more aware of climate change and the environmental costs of our current eating patterns, said Dr. Martin Bloem, an environmental health professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.