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Activist, writer, researcher, addicted to sharing information and facts.

Covid: FDA officials back Pfizer jab for children over five in US – BBC News

Source: Covid: FDA officials back Pfizer jab for children over five in US – BBC News

Study links March Madness parties to more county COVID cases | CIDRAP

Infection rates peaked 24 days after the last game (21.8%; 95% CI, 6.4% to 37.3%) and then fell until day 30, when the difference between participating and nonparticipating counties was no longer significant (17.1%; 95% CI, –0.6% to 34.7%).

“The findings of this cross-sectional study suggest that social gatherings among unvaccinated students were associated with increased COVID-19 infections (in this scenario, slowing the previous downward trend and briefly increasing) in a university’s community beginning 8 days after the event, which corresponds with the 75th percentile of time to symptom onset,” she wrote.

The researcher cautioned that states vary in how they test for and report COVID-19 infections and that universities competing in March Madness may have increased surveillance testing during and after the tournament, leading to higher case counts than in other counties.

“This study identifies an urgent gap in evidence on the risk of COVID-19 spread at social gatherings among university students, although the increase in transmission was brief,” she wrote. “This increase in transmission may have been brief because of increases in the vaccination rate of university students during this time or because some students may have completed their semester before the end of the study period.”

Source: Study links March Madness parties to more county COVID cases | CIDRAP

2 border agents are fired for offensive Facebook posts

One fired agent in Texas with 10 years in the Border Patrol posted an image of Pepe the Frog, “a symbol of the alt-right and white supremacy,” and doctored images of President Joe Biden touching U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., the report said. The other, California-based agent, who was at the agency for 20 years and was disciplined in 2005 for undisclosed reasons, published homophobic memes and a doctored image of then-President Donald Trump raping a member of Congress. The report doesn’t name the lawmaker but Ocasio-Cortez has said she was depicted being raped on the Facebook group, named “I’m 10-15. Source: 2 border agents are fired for offensive Facebook posts

How One Woman Protected Millions of Acres – RTBC

Pumalín Patagonia The now 71-year-old president of Tompkins Conservation and her late husband Doug Tompkins were attempting a feat of conservation never before done on such a large scale, spending more than $345 million to buy large swaths of land in Chile and Argentina, restore the grasslands, the forests, and the waterways — and then give them back to the people.

In 2018 and 2019, Kris Tompkins finished this chapter of her life’s work by handing over nearly one million hectares to the Chilean government. This was added to the four million hectares of their own land that formed five new national parks and enlarged three existing ones. A contract with the Chilean government assures that Tompkins Conservation stays involved for the next ten years to guide and support the ecosystem restoration. In Argentina, Kris signed over her land under the condition it would remain protected for at least 99 years, thus creating or significantly enlarging six national parks. Her gifts at the time marked the largest private land donation in history and helped conserve a total of 14.7 million acres of land and 30 million marine acres.

Source: How One Woman Protected Millions of Acres – RTBC

The Magnitude of the Challenge

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With the COP26 climate summit due to kick off in Glasgow on Sunday, here’s a stark warning of what the future holds in store for us all if our global ‘leaders’ fail to come through (as I fully expect them to do).

As Sir David Attenborough said recently:

If we don’t act now, it will be too late.

Sir David Attenborough

Dr Will Steffen from the Australian National University discusses ‘Climate Change: The Magnitude of the Challenge’ at Festival of Ambitious Ideas, May 2016

Dr Will Steffen: OK, now, as Monty Python said, for something completely different: I’m going to talk a bit about climate change, but probably stuff you haven’t seen or heard about before. So, I want to talk about the magnitude of what we have to deal with and the reason that the exciting developments that Laughlin talked about need to be accelerated; they’re not optional…

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COP26 – Call to Action! We all must revise our relationship with nature and reorient our association with consumerism!  

Barbara Crane Navarro

« I do not see a delegation for the Four Footed. I see no seat for the Eagles.

We forget & we consider ourselves superior. But we are after all a mere part of Creation.

We stand somewhere between the mountain & the Ant.»

– Chief Oren Lyons, Seneca Nation, in an address to the Non-Governmental Organizations of the United Nations, Geneva, Switzerland, 1977

«The last 500 years witnessed a ‘swift, ongoing, radical reorganization of life on Earth without geological precedent’ – the arrival of European colonialism, imperialism and the associated expansion of capitalist economic systems leading to the transferral of diseases, plants, animals, forms of land use, and administrative systems to all corners of the world.»

According to the UN, we are entering an «era of pandemics» caused by deforestation, habitat loss, intensive agriculture and wildlife trafficking.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) stated that one of themost…

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5 claves para entender qué es la COP 15 de biodiversidad — Ecoamazônia

Barbara Crane Navarro

Esta semana, gobiernos de 195 países se reunieron de forma virtual en la primera parte de la conferencia más importante sobre biodiversidad. ¿El objetivo? establecer nuevas metas para frenar la devastación de la naturaleza y asegurar el bienestar humano. 1. ¿Qué es una COP? Las COP o Conferencia de las Partes, son órganos dedecisión…

5 claves para entender qué es la COP 15 de biodiversidad — Ecoamazônia

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Renvoyons nos enfants dans les arbres — JEREMIKARUS

Barbara Crane Navarro

Ce devrait être une interro obligatoire dans les écoles. Combien d’œufs une poule pond-t-elle par jour ? Les vaches hibernent-t-elle ? À quel endroit le soleil se lève-t-il ? On serait surpris des résultats. Les poules prendrai deux, trois, ou six oeufs par jour, le soleil se lèverait à l’ouest, etc. J’ai fait le tests…[…]

Renvoyons nos enfants dans les arbres — JEREMIKARUS

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