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Failed Rainy Seasons, Harvests Failing, Dried River – Climate Change is Happening – FunWritings

Let us wake up and show compassion for the people who are suffering in Africa today There might be something you can do to help them to live in a better way If the earth gets any warmer, trees will not grow anymore Let us try to make an effort to change our ways so…

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COP-26 : « Notre résistance collective pour défendre nos territoires ancestraux fait partie d’une proposition urgente et nécessaire des peuples autochtones qui s’aligne sur notre appel à protéger au moins 80% de la forêt amazonienne avant 2025. » Il est maintenant temps de « Exit Amazon Oil & Gas » – « Sortir du pétrole et du gaz de l’Amazonie » et d’autres industries extractives ! 

Barbara Crane Navarro

Peuples indigènes de la forêt amazonienne

Les dirigeants autochtones de toute l’Amazonie ont adopté une résolution visant à protéger 80% de la forêt tropicale d’ici 2025 lors du Congrès mondial de la nature de l’UICN en septembre 2021. Aujourd’hui, à la COP-26, ils continuent d’appeler les gouvernements, les entreprises et les sociétés financières du monde entier à mettre fin au financement d’industries extractives de la région amazonienne.

«L’industrie des combustibles fossiles a passé des décennies à nier et à retarder une action réelle sur la crise climatique, c’est pourquoi il s’agit d’un problème si énorme. Leur influence est l’une des principales raisons pour lesquelles 25 ans de pourparlers sur le climat de l’ONU n’ont pas conduit à de réelles réductions des émissions mondiales. »

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Sur les quelque 40 000 personnes présentes à la COP-26, le gouvernement brésilien dispose de la plus grande équipe officielle de…

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DAILY DOSE: Activists keeping COP26 honest; Darwin’s notebooks are still missing. — Scientific Inquirer

Barbara Crane Navarro

SPEAKING TRUTH TO POWER With COP26 chugging along in all its self-congratulatory, pledge-heavy glory, boots-on-the-ground activists are raising their voices and concerns on the streets of Glasgow. Per Al-Jazeera, “Activists criticised plans by corporations and governments to solve the climate change emergency through opaque carbon-trading schemes instead of urgently shutting down fossil fuel productionas…

DAILY DOSE: Activists keeping COP26 honest; Darwin’s notebooks are still missing. — Scientific Inquirer

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Federal judge rules Texas schools can issue mask mandates. – The New York Times

A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that Gov. Greg Abbott’s ban on mask mandates in Texas schools violates the rights of students with disabilities, clearing the path for districts in the state to issue their own rules for face coverings, a decision that could affect more than 5 million students.

The ruling comes after months of politicized disputes over measures at the state level opposing mask-wearing policies that had been intended to prevent the spread of Covid.

The lawsuit, which sought to overturn the mandate, was filed on behalf of several families of students with disabilities and the organization Disability Rights Texas.

They stated that the defendants — the state’s attorney general, Ken Paxton; the commissioner of the Texas Education Agency, Mike Morath; and the Texas Education Agency — had put students with disabilities at risk through their complete erasure of mask mandates.

Human trials of vaccine for multiple species of Ebola to begin soon | Ebola | The Guardian

The first jab of a new Ebola vaccine that may protect against multiple species of the virus is to be given on Thursday, researchers have said, with the vaccine based on similar technology to the Oxford Covid jab.

Ebola haemorrhagic fever is caused by the Ebola virus and has caused devastation in some parts of the world. It is thought the outbreak in west Africa in 2014-16 may have led to more than 11,000 deaths, while the outbreak in the DRC between August 2018 and June 2020 claimed more than 2,200 lives.

Highly effective vaccines against Ebola have been developed in recent years but experts warn these have only been approved for one of the four species of the Ebola virus. This is the Zaire species that is responsible for many outbreaks, and has the highest mortality rate, with estimates of between 70% and 90%.

“There are three other important species of Ebola virus out there that these vaccines aren’t approved to prevent,” said Dr Daniel Jenkin, principal investigator of the trial at the Jenner Institute, University of Oxford.

Source: Human trials of vaccine for multiple species of Ebola to begin soon | Ebola | The Guardian