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Crested Capuchin Sapajus robustus — Palm Oil Detectives

Barbara Crane Navarro

Crested Capuchin Sapajus robustus Brazil (Bahia, Espírito Santo, Minas Gerais) Endangered The crested capuchin or robust tufted capuchin (Sapajus robustus) is a species of robust capuchin monkey living in Brazil. They were formerly considered a subspecies of the black capuchin but is now considered to be a separate species. The species has a broad diet,[…]

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Un cuento de iniciación – “La Magia de la Amazonia Las aventuras de Namowë, un niño Yanomami” — Barbara Crane Navarro — Tiny Life

Barbara Crane Navarro

ilustración de “La Magia de la Amazonia” – Las aventuras de Namowë, un niño Yanomami “ Desde sus primeras páginas, La Magie de l’Amazonie, este libro encantador para niños describe un mundo casi inimaginable en el siglo XXI. Un mundo tropical, exuberante e agitado, desbordante de una vida en comunión con los espíritus de los […] […]

Un cuento de iniciación – “La Magia de la Amazonia Las aventuras de Namowë, un niño Yanomami” — Barbara Crane Navarro — Tiny Life

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Coronavirus digest: India′s COVID death toll 10x higher than official tally | News | DW | 20.07.2021

India’s excess deaths, a count of the number of people who have died in excess as compared to the numbers recorded in the same period in previous years, could be 10 times higher than the official death toll, one of the most comprehensive studies show.

The study, published by Arvind Subramanian, the Indian government’s former chief adviser, and two other researchers, show that the numbers of those who died in excess between January 2020 and June 2021 could be between 3 million and 4.7 million.

Source: Coronavirus digest: India′s COVID death toll 10x higher than official tally | News | DW | 20.07.2021

Maine Becomes First State To Make Businesses Pay For Packaging Waste | Earthwhile

Maine Gov. Janet Mills has signed a first-in-the-nation bill that will shift the cost of disposing packaging materials away from Maine communities and onto the companies that create them.

Conservation groups cheered the passage of the bill on Tuesday.

Sarah Nichols of the Natural Resources Council of Maine says when the program gets going it will provide millions of dollars to Maine towns and cities that have struggled to fund recycling programs in recent years.

Source: Maine Becomes First State To Make Businesses Pay For Packaging Waste | Earthwhile

Opinion | Stop pleading with anti-vaxxers and start mandating vaccinations – The Washington Post

It’s time to get serious about coronavirus vaccinations. Stop pleading and start mandating.

For the past six months, President Biden, joined by every public health authority in the land, has been begging Americans to get vaccinated. The “pretty, please” approach isn’t working. According to The Post’s covid-19 tracker, in the past week, daily reported covid-19 cases rose 66 percent, covid-related hospitalizations rose 28 percent, and daily reported covid-19 deaths rose 20 percent. With the delta variant spreading across the country, every single state has seen an increase in cases over the past seven days.

This is a preventable tragedy. Over 99 percent of covid-19 deaths in June were among the unvaccinated. Yet even as evidence grows that vaccines are safe and effective, resistance to them is also growing.

Source: Opinion | Stop pleading with anti-vaxxers and start mandating vaccinations – The Washington Post

Plastic Free July and the importance of recycling in Jamaica

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It’s Plastic Free July. This is a global initiative founded by the Plastic Free Foundation back in 2011, to rid the world of plastic waste.

In our own lives, we are trying to reduce the amount of plastic we use. You know, the old “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle” mantra. This is hard. We have taken some steps: we now use wooden toothbrushes and shampoo bars and regular soap, in the bathroom, instead of picking up yet another plastic bottle in the supermarket. That’s a small gesture as a consumer, but I wish there was more we could do, and there probably is. That’s the “reduce” part. We also reuse plastic that we know cannot be recycled if we throw it away – in particular packaging of all kinds. I get angry when I see a few vegetables “packaged” quite unnecessarily in supermarkets, on a styrofoam plate covered in plastic wrap. Why?

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Las sandalias

Santiago Galicia Rojon Serrallonga

SANTIAGO GALICIA ROJON SERRALLONGA

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Un día antes, en el monasterio, el monje habló a sus discípulos acerca de las apariencias, las superficialidades y la petulancia que condenan a millones de hombres y mujeres, en todo el mundo, principalmente en occidente. Citó las prisiones que la gente fabrica, los anfiteatros y las trampas que los seres humanos construyen al rivalizar racialmente, por su aspecto, por sus grados académicos, por sus creencias y por el dinero, el poder y las cosas materiales que obtienen y, erróneamente, no utilizan para trascender. Mostró a sus alumnos, sorprendidos, carteles con fotogafías de calzado moderno. Se asombraron al detectar la incomodidad de la mayor parte de los modelos, unos que oprimían las puntas de los pies y otros, en tanto, que exigían mantener equilibrio, impedían caminar libremente, presionaban la corriente sanguínea, bloqueaban las terminales nerviosas y agotaban. El maestro…

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COVID-19 antibodies last up to 9 months following infection, study finds – UPI.com

People infected with COVID-19 continue to produce antibodies against the virus for up to nine months, whether or not they experienced symptoms, a study published Monday by Nature Communications found.

Just under 99% residents of Vo, Italy — which saw a high volume of cases in the early stages of the pandemic — who were infected in February or March of last year still had antibodies against the virus in November, the data showed.

Source: COVID-19 antibodies last up to 9 months following infection, study finds – UPI.com

Opinion | Dolly Parton Tried to Get Tennessee Vaccinated. But It’s Not Enough. – The New York Times

She gave it a good try, a heroic try, but somehow the bonehead politicians running this state managed to overcome even the good will generated by its favorite daughter.

Remember how hopeful we were when the new Covid-19 vaccines arrived so astonishingly quickly, and were so astonishingly effective and safe? As a nation — politically, institutionally, too often personally — we’d botched almost everything about this pandemic, and we did not deserve a miracle. The miracle arrived anyway.