Nuh Dutty Up Jamaica invites you to clean up your community! Apply today!

Petchary's Blog

Solid waste management remains a nightmare for many of us across the island. We are battling a rising tide of trash – mostly plastics. This is happening in our neighbourhood, and many others. While birdwatching recently we saw a Brown Pelican with a large plastic bag hanging round his neck. On a Sunday afternoon tour of downtown Kingston we were shocked to see garbage strewn all around the perimeter of National Heroes Park (made worse by the strong wind blowing). Even Simón Bolívar’s statue was surrounded by litter.

Plastic clogging young mangroves in Port Royal (My photo).

And so it goes on. But, fight back we must, and it’s great to see Nuh Dutty Up Jamaica back on stream, thanks to a grant from the UNDP’s Global Environment Facility (GEF) Small Grants Programme.

The deadline for applications from community-based groups is 12 noon on Wednesday, March 1, 2023. Hurry up…

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COVID’s aftermath: Persistent organ damage at 1 year, lung abnormalities at 2 | CIDRAP

59% had organ impairment at 1 year

In a study in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, British researchers assessed organ impairment in 536 long-COVID patients still reporting extreme shortness of breath, brain fog, and poor health-related quality of life (HRQoL) 1 year after diagnosis. Of all participants, 13% had been hospitalized at symptom onset, and 32% were healthcare workers.

Sixty-two percent of participants had organ damage 6 months after their initial diagnosis, as did 59% of those who underwent a 40-minute multi-organ magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan at 1 year—even those with non-severe infections.

Source: COVID’s aftermath: Persistent organ damage at 1 year, lung abnormalities at 2 | CIDRAP

Nachwuchs bei den Alpakas im Süden von Chile

Senioren um die Welt

In einer der schönsten Gegenden von Chile, in der Region de Los Ríos, lebt eine Gruppe von knapp einem Dutzend Alpakas zusammen mit anderen Tieren wie Schafen und Hühnern auf einer Farm. Diese befindet sich im Nordosten der Region und grenzt an Argentinien und an die Región de la Araucanía. Es ist eine reizvolle Gegend, in der sich mehrere Vulkane, Flüsse und Seen befinden.


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