Publications by authors named "N Rietze"
Background: Sedentary lifestyles, poor nutritional choices, inadequate sleep, risky substance use, limited social connections, and high stress contribute to the growing prevalence of chronic diseases. Lifestyle medicine, emphasizing therapeutic lifestyle changes for prevention and treatment, has demonstrated effectiveness but remains underutilized in clinical settings. The Complete Lifestyle Medicine Intervention Program-Ontario (CLIP-ON) was developed to educate the rural population of Northern Ontario in lifestyle medicine to improve health outcomes and engagement.
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- Climate change is making the Arctic more accessible, leading to potential industrial and urban growth, but there’s a lack of comprehensive data on this development.
- A study using satellite data from 1992 to 2013 found that about 5.14% of the Arctic is lit by human activity, primarily in the European Arctic and oil/gas areas of Russia and Alaska, with an annual increase of 4.8%.
- The research highlights that most artificial light in the Arctic is driven by industrial activity rather than human settlements, providing important data for future sustainable development and conservation efforts in the region.
Knowledge about the distribution and dynamics of seasonal snow cover (SSC) is of high importance for climate studies, hydrology or hazards assessment. SSC varies considerably across the Hindu Kush Himalaya both in space and time. Previous studies focused on regional investigations or the influence of snow melt on the local hydrological system.
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