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Ohio reports new 21-day high with 5,914 COVID-19 cases – (Me: Wrong direction – mandate masks for everyone, vaccinations for state employees!)

Source: Ohio reports new 21-day high with 5,914 COVID-19 cases

Africa’s rainforests are different. Why it matters that they’re protected

The forests will not be protected well unless local governments and the world figures out how to create new opportunities for people to make a good living without denuding the forests – and controlling greedy investors who want relatively quick profit from plantations.

Palm Oil Detectives

Martin Sullivan, University of Leeds; Oliver Phillips, University of Leeds, and Simon Lewis, UCL

Around 2 million km² of Africa is covered by tropical rainforests. They are second only in extent to those in Amazonia, which cover around 6 million km². Rainforests are home to vast numbers of species. For example, the world’s tropical rainforests are estimated to be home to at least 40,000 tree species, with up to 6,000 in African forests.

Yet African rainforests are poorly studied compared to those in Amazonia and South East Asia. And the continent’s rainforests are being lost to deforestation at a rate of 0.3% every year. This is slower than in Amazonia (estimated to be 0.5% per year in Brazil) and South East Asia (1% in Indonesia).

But greater losses are likely in the future if palm oil production, driven by

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Native American tribes enforce mask mandates regardless of state bans | Native Americans | The Guardian

Under the US constitution, federally recognized tribes, such as the Navajo Nation and the Cherokee Nation, have self-governing authority, and so have been able to implement mask mandates despite the statewide bans.

Jason Dropik, board president of the National Indian Education Association and the head of the Indian community school in Wisconsin, said the majority of Native communities he had heard from in states with these bans have implemented mask mandates.

The reasoning, he explained, often had to do with the fact that Indigenous Americans have had to deal with a disproportionately high death toll from Covid. According to an analysis released in February, one in every 475 Native Americans has died since the pandemic started – a greater proportion of any other demographic in the country.
Source: Native American tribes enforce mask mandates regardless of state bans | Native Americans | The Guardian

Smart clothing monitors the wearer’s heart – Futurity

Researchers sewed the fibers into athletic wear to monitor the heart rate and take a continual electrocardiogram (EKG) of the wearer. The fibers are just as conductive as metal wires, but washable, comfortable, and far less likely to break when a body is in motion. On the whole, the enhanced shirt was better at gathering data than a standard chest-strap monitor taking live measurements during experiments. When matched with commercial medical electrode monitors, the carbon nanotube shirt gave slightly better EKGs.

Source: Smart clothing monitors the wearer’s heart – Futurity

NO allo stratagemma del « lasso di tempo » – Un’aberrazione!

Barbara Crane Navarro

«Il ‘lasso di tempo’ è un percorso del nemico della foresta contro la mia gente. Il ritardo per me significa rubare più terra degli Yanomami. Ruba altre nostre terre che sono già state delimitate, ratificate e registrate dal governo brasiliano.»

Portavoce e sciamano Yanomami Davi Kopenawa

Dal 22 agosto, più di 6.000 indigeni di 176 nazioni indigene si sono riuniti davanti alla Corte Suprema del Brasile a Brasilia per chiedere che i giudici si pronunciano a loro favore e rifiutano il «lasso di tempo» del 1988 adottato dal governo Bolsonaro nel 2016 e promosso dai settori dell’agroalimentare, dell’allevamento di bestiame, della silvicoltura e dell’estrazione dell’oro.

L’appello legale del popolo Xokleng dello stato di Santa Catarina, sostenendo che il «lasso di tempo» è un’interpretazione troppo ristretta dei diritti indigeni che riconosce solo le terre occupate dalle comunità indigene al momento della ratifica della costituzione del Brasile nel 1988 , è il…

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Mais de 5 mil indígenas criticam votação do marco temporal no STF — Ecoamazônia

Barbara Crane Navarro

Lideranças dizem que decisão pode ajudar no extermínio dos povos Sobrevivência. Este é o foco do Acampamento Terra Livre, montado atésábado (28), aqui em Brasília. 46 morewords

Mais de 5 mil indígenas criticam votação do marco temporal no STF — Ecoamazônia

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