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The International Monarch Monitoring Blitz is a community science initiative open to anyone in North America. Each year, the Monarch Blitz takes place over a 10-day period, starting on the last Friday of July and ending on the Sunday of the following week.
A unique trinational organization advancing a regional approach to environmental cooperation and creating linkages across Canada, Mexico and the United States to address emerging and complex environmental challenges.
CEC projects bring together experts, governments and communities to share knowledge, build capacity, pilot scalable solutions and strengthen cooperation, turning shared goals into action for North America’s environment.
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Providing access to affordable, reliable and clean energy for all is a global challenge. Advancements in renewable energy sources and enabling technologies (e.g., storage), as well as their decentralized nature, represent available and realistic options for supplying access to low-cost and sustainable electricity in remote communities. Under this initiative, the...
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Long-term Impact Assessment
Syndromic surveillance is a tool and approach that provides public health professionals with a “timely system for detecting, understanding, and monitoring health events” [CDC 2023]. By using real-time (or near real-time) rediagnostic data (gathered from sources as diverse as triage reports, telehealth lines, and ambulance cards) and statistical tools to detect unusual health patterns, syndromic surveillance systems aim to reduce the time to detect and respond to outbreaks or events causing health concern [ISDS 2007].
