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Deforestation-neutral mining? Madagascar study shows it can be done, but it’s complicated

  • he Ambatovy mine in Madagascar achieved no net forest loss by curbing deforestation in its biodiversity offsets, an analysis in the journal Nature Sustainability concluded.
  • Project developers create biodiversity offsets, sites where they undertake conservation work, to make up for environmental destruction caused by their extractive operations.
  • Ambatovy, which operates an open-pit nickel mine in Madagascar, carved out four biodiversity offsets to make up for biodiversity loss in its mining site, located in the species-rich eastern rainforest of the island nation.
  • By slowing deforestation in these four offsets, the mine made up for forest loss in its mining concession; however, there isn’t enough data to ascertain how the measures impacted biodiversity, and previous research indicates that the mine’s offsets reduced impoverished communities’ access to forest resources. 

Source: Deforestation-neutral mining? Madagascar study shows it can be done, but it’s complicated

Counting the global COVID-19 dead – The Lancet

Excess deaths are a proxy for the mortality effects of SARS-CoV-2 infection. The key assumption is that increases in all-cause mortality during peak weeks of COVID-19 compared to pre-pandemic periods are nearly all due to the infection, even if SARS-CoV-2 infection was not confirmed. The validity of this method is supported in part by documenting modest reductions (negative excess) in overall mortality in selected east Asian countries that effectively prevented the original wave from March to June, 2020.

The difference of 3 million deaths across the three models is far from trivial. However, given that WHO imprimatur carries substantial influence on countries, a more relevant question is whether WHO estimates are credible. About half of WHO’s estimate is derived from observed data, the other half from modelled data. IHME combines six different approaches and applies complex methods to create estimates for various countries. Yet IHME’s method yields implausibly narrow uncertainty intervals. The Economist applies machine learning, using many covariates, and has appropriately wider uncertainty intervals; like WHO, it makes its model fully open source. In high-income countries, much of the discrepancy between excess and reported COVID-19 deaths occurred during the first viral wave, from March to June, 2020, when SARS-CoV-2 infections and COVID-19 deaths swept through nursing homes. Italy, for example, has robust and rapid reporting of COVID-19 deaths, and WHO estimated 161 000 excess deaths, as did Italian researchers.

By contrast, IHME

and The Economist estimated 259 000 deaths and 192 000 deaths, respectively. That at least 9 million COVID-19 deaths were missed by official reports raises a few key issues.

Source: Counting the global COVID-19 dead – The Lancet

Shanghai’s life-saving efforts against the current omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic – The Lancet

As of May 4, 2022, among the 503 people who died with or from COVID-19, only 25 patients had received at least one dose of COVID-19 vaccine. The vaccination rate for the deceased patients was only 4·97%. If no strict public health measures were taken, such as large scale viral nucleic acid and antigen screening, quarantine of infected cases and close contacts in shelter hospitals and hotels, respectively, and lockdown of districts with severe outbreak, the number of severe to critical cases and the resultant death toll could be high among the older people without vaccination. The strict and comprehensive pandemic control strategies in Shanghai are therefore actually to reduce the number of people infected and to provide early diagnosis and appropriate treatment for severe COVID-19 so that the case fatality rate can be minimised, and to buy time for full vaccination coverage. Source: Shanghai’s life-saving efforts against the current omicron wave of the COVID-19 pandemic – The Lancet

Jeopardy

De malinha pronta

Reprise

Shall I stay or shall I go?
Shall I hide or shall I show?
Shall I say or shall I silence?
Shall I listen or shall I ignore?
Shall I wait or shall I move on?
Shall I live in the past or shall I run into the future?
Shall I care or shall I dare?
Shall I be unique or shall I compare?
Shall I do or shall I don’t?
Shall I be the guide or shall I be guided?
Shall I love or shall I be loved?
Shall I fall or shall I fly?
Shall I laugh or shall I cry?
Shall I be strong or shall I break into pieces?
Shall I give up or shall I resist?
Shall I erase myself or shall I exist?
Life is not always a long, peaceful road
Not everything is either black or white
We should enjoy the present

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Open Thread | Still More COVID News | 3CHICSPOLITICO

ONE MILLION COVID DEATHS.

I will never get past my belief that..
90-95% of the last 500,000 COVID DEATHS

DID NOT NEED TO HAPPEN.

90-95%

DID NOT NEED TO HAPPEN.

46 and his Administration have put the COVID Vaccine on practically every other corner in America.

But, the same people who won’t mask up…
Are the same people who yelled OPEN THE ECONOMY…
Are the same people who won’t get vaccinated…

But, somehow, this is supposed to be President Biden’s fault?
No, I don’t think so.
Let’s get Moderna approved for children 6 – 5 years, so that vulnerable population can get vaccinated.
Get boosters and second boosters for all age groups, 5 and up.
Get more advertising of the success of new antiviral treatment for COVID
Keep on giving home tests.
Keep on wearing the KN-95s
We need more research into long-term COVID.
We need to discuss honestly, about the disabled from long-term COVID.

Source: Open Thread | Still More COVID News | 3CHICSPOLITICO

Palestinian Renowned Journalist, devoted mother, beloved wife, adored friend assassinated while on duty with a bullet shot directly in her head. If this is how journalists are targeted, what is really happening on the grounds of Jenin? We are all living aimlessly until We become Shireen. This is as sad , as horrible , as painful , as heartbreaking as the assassination of Nizar. No place for truth on this land. — نادية حرحش

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Palestinian Renowned Journalist, devoted mother, beloved wife, adored friend assassinated while on duty with a bullet shot directly in her head. If this is how journalists are targeted, what is really happening on the grounds of Jenin? We are all living aimlessly until We become Shireen. This is as sad , as horrible , as painful , as heartbreaking as the assassination of Nizar. No place for truth on this land. — نادية حرحش

Good People Doing Good Things — Mister Rogers

Filosofa's Word

I was scouring my usual sources for a few good people to write about today and I did find some, but they will have to wait until next week’s post, for during my search something popped up on my radar and by the time I finished reading it, I had tears and knew this would be my good people story this week.

We all knew that Fred Rogers, star of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, was a good guy.  But this one story shows just how good, just how caring an individual he was.

It all started in early 1987 when …

A mother called into PBS, asking if Mr. Rogers could send an autograph to her daughter. She was suffering from seizures and set to have brain surgery. When Fred Rogers heard about it, he flew to see her in the hospital rather than merely sending an autograph.

When Beth Usher…

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