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Plant a Tree or Protect a Plot? Forests usually Regrow much Better just Leaving Protected land Alone. — The Free

By Fred Pearce • September 24, 2020 Natural Debate: Do Forests Grow Better With Our Help or Without? Nations around the world are pledging to plant billions of trees to grow new forests. But a new study shows that the potential for natural forest regrowth to absorb carbon from the atmosphere and fight climate change is far greater […]

Plant a Tree or Protect a Plot? Forests usually Regrow much Better just Leaving Protected land Alone. — The Free

Portez-vous de l’or? — Barbara Crane Navarro

Ceux qui achètent des bijoux, des montres et des accessoires en or et en diamant chez Cartier et d’autres dans l’industrie du luxe sont complices de la destruction des forêts tropicales et de la dégradation de la vie des peuples autochtones! https://barbara-navarro.com/2020/03/05/un-message-urgent-pour-davi-kopenawa-claudia-andujar-et-survival/

Portez-vous de l’or? — Barbara Crane Navarro

Where Are the Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine Trials? — VAXOPEDIA

Most people understand that we are well on our way to getting a COVID-19 vaccine, as several vaccines enter late, stage III clinical trials. “You have to strike a balance of making sure you get a vaccine — if it’s safe and effective — to children in a timely manner while you’re also very attentive…

Where Are the Pediatric COVID-19 Vaccine Trials? — VAXOPEDIA

Most Patients’ Covid-19 Care Looks Nothing Like Trump’s – The New York Times

“I got angry,” said Ms. Hill, 41, who isolated in her bedroom for weeks while her husband left meals at the doorstep and her teenage son could only wave through a window. “He whipped that mask off. It’s not been 10 days, it’s not been two weeks. If he’s positive, then he just exposed everybody.”

After Ms. Hill got sick, compounding a pre-existing heart condition, her doctors pumped her with steroids and antibiotics. She did not have access to experimental treatment, she said, something she would have welcomed.

“Don’t fear Covid? Tell that to the ones who died, the ones who buried family members, the ones with empty seats at their dining room tables, and all of us who are still suffering,” said Ms. Hill, who is nearly 200 days into her illness and still experiencing fevers and vacillating blood pressure. She plans to support Joseph R. Biden Jr. in November.

California colleges caught off guard by COVID-19 outbreaks – Los Angeles Times

USC has tried to wrangle the thousands of students living on the blocks around its campus south of downtown Los Angeles despite there being no in-person classes.

“We’re actively doing outreach to students living around campus to encourage them to get tested weekly,” said Dr. Sarah Van Orman, associate vice provost for student affairs and chief health officer.

About 3,000 students have been tested weekly for the virus, and the university has a team of about 30 contact tracers working to identify close contacts of those who test positive.

The steps have failed to stop the virus. With more than 500 cases reported since early July, the school has had about 2,000 students living at some point in isolation facilities or quarantined. The infections among students have been linked largely to parties and other off-campus gatherings, and officials are trying to enforce restrictions beyond campus borders. Students who disobey rules prohibiting large gatherings, for example, face potential discipline, including expulsion.

Source: California colleges caught off guard by COVID-19 outbreaks – Los Angeles Times

Class warfare intensifies as labor rights violated around the world

Systemic Disorder

As bad as conditions have traditionally been for labor worldwide, 2020 has seen conditions deteriorate even more. As in past years, there is not a single country on Earth that fully protects workers’ rights. And although every country continues to violate labor rights, the extent of those violations grows, continuing a sad pattern of class warfare.

The International Trade Union Confederation has issued its annual Global Rights Index, and only 12 countries managed to be listed in the Index’s top ranking, the countries that are merely “sporadic” violators of rights. But those countries are hardly paradises (this is capitalism, after all). One of those dozen, the Netherlands, had no less than seven of its corporations listed among companies violating workers’ rights. Those were not necessarily isolated instances. The report said, “In the Netherlands, unions observed an increasing trend to shift from sectoral agreements to company agreements with the…

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