https://phys.org/ en-us Latest news from Dickinson College A new study offers a rare glimmer of hope in the face of climate change, suggesting glacial rivers and lakes may play a crucial role in mitigating the effects of methane—a powerful greenhouse gas that recent studies have shown emerges as glaciers melt in warming global temperatures. https://phys.org/news/2024-12-oxidation-glacial-rivers-lakes-mitigate.html Earth Sciences Fri, 13 Dec 2024 09:56:03 EST news653306162 A new study published in the journal Health Economics is the first to comprehensively examine the impact of job losses during the U.S. Great Recession of 2008-09 on the mental health, physical health and the health behavior of young adults. Critically, researchers find young adults' living situation—whether they lived alone or with their parents—particularly affected whether they experienced negative mental and physical health impacts from job loss. https://phys.org/news/2022-07-explores-link-job-losses-health.html Social Sciences Fri, 08 Jul 2022 12:57:07 EDT news576503825 People who worried more about COVID-19 also took more precautions against catching the disease, a new study led by a Dickinson College researcher finds. The journal Psychology & Health published the study. Psychology Professor Marie Helweg-Larsen, Ph.D., and her team looked at the interplay between one's perceived risk of getting COVID-19 and the state of worrying about getting COVID-19 and how they influenced behaviors to prevent getting the disease. Researchers found that worrying about COVID-19 better predicted people taking COVID-19 precautions than did their perceived risk—how much at risk people personally thought they were of getting or dying from COVID-19. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2022-05-linked-covid-behaviors.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Mon, 16 May 2022 11:27:03 EDT news571919222