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Meet this luxurious 134 square meter house built by River & Rain architects using four shipping containers. It is located in the capital of Bangladesh and consists of three floors: on the ground floor is the dining room and other furniture on a platform or wooden deck that connects to another container in which the kitchen, a bathroom and a multimedia room are located. ; it also has a service area at the rear. The bedrooms and living room are located on the highest floors. From the first floor, wooden stairs connect to the living room built with glass walls that reveal the beautiful landscape that surrounds the house. Other stairs lead to the third floor that corresponds to the third container, where the two rooms are; one of them has a viewing terrace. The containers at the top have a green roof and can be reached by spiral staircases. The central part of the house has an almond tree and several vines hanging from the ceiling that soften the harsh lines of the containers. The furniture in the house is made of wood and other recyclable materials and it also has multiple glass lamps hanging from the ceiling. This house has a robust and spacious structure and some architectural details such as the floating platforms, the interlocking stairs and the location of each container make it unique and striking. Building a house with containers and recycled material not only favors the environment but also the architecture of this keeps the house fresh during the day and at night the wood helps to maintain the temperature of the environment. This type of construction also shows us that the ecological can coexist with luxury and elegance. Its style, location and architecture perfectly combine closed spaces with the outskirts, creating harmony and comfort without altering the environment. The glass walls in the rooms allow the entry of natural light, reducing electricity consumption, and the green roof, which can be used for cultivation, also extracts CO2 from the air, absorbs heat, reduces pollution, allows a habitat to diverse creatures and isolate noise. Video: Container Build Group - Luxury Homes (October 2020).

END OF THE WORLD: 70 percent of humanity will die in an apocalyptic scenario MATHEMATICS have calculated the most likely scenarios for the disappearance of the human race and the end of the world, and more than two-thirds of the population could perish in the dire scenario of the end of the world. A team of researchers at the University of Rochester in New York fear that humanity could cause its own demise in one of three ways. Professor Adam Frank, who led the study, which was published in the scientific journal Astrobiology, says that humanity is potentially facing a gradual "extinction", a so-called "soft landing" or "full-blown collapse." And up to 70 percent of the population will disappear before Earth's civilizations achieve sustainability. Neither scenario is particularly better than the other, and all three could end in widespread cataclysms. The doomsday warning comes amid growing concerns that climate change and overpopulation are pushing the planet to the brink of collapse. The "sobering" predictions were based on a study of the development of distant planets to delineate the theoretical rise and fall of alien civilizations. Theoretical aliens were nicknamed "former civilizations" and scientists believe that learning from their mistakes could help humanity prevent future catastrophes on Earth. Professor Frank said: “We are interested in how the former civilizations developed on their planets. End of the world: scientists fear humans could drive the planet to extinction “Since there are probably more than 10 trillion trillion planets in the cosmos, unless nature is perversely biased against civilizations like ours, we are not the first to appear. Unless nature is perversely biased against civilizations like ours, we are not the first to appear “That means that every exo-civilization that evolved from your planet's biosphere had a history: a history of emergence, increased capabilities, and then perhaps a slow fading or a rapid collapse. “And just as most species that have ever lived on Earth are now extinct, so too most civilizations that arose, if they arose, may have ended long ago. "So we are exploring what could have happened to others to get information about what could happen to us." The "extinction" scenario envisions humans managing their own extinction by rapidly depleting all available resources on the planet. According to conspiracy theorists, the end is upon us Professor Frank emphasized that up to 70 percent of the population will disappear before Earth's civilizations achieve sustainability. In the "soft landing" model there is hope for human survival, but only if humans detect the warning signs of climate cataclysms and adapt to them at the last minute. The "full-blown collapse" is the scariest of scenarios because it ends in the total extinction of the human race. However, Professor Frank said there is no real evidence to support these theories, other than "the laws of the planets." A team of researchers suggested that climate change and overpopulation are a terrifying risk for humanity The end-of-the-world scenarios are purely hypothetical, said Professor Frank. He said: “Our robot emissaries have already visited most of the worlds in the solar system. “We have installed weather stations on Mars, we have observed the runaway greenhouse effect on Venus and we have seen a cascade of rain through the methane lakes on Titan. “From these worlds we learned the generic physics and chemistry that make up what is called climate. "We can use these laws to predict the global response of any planet to something like the impact of an asteroid or perhaps the emergence of an energy-starved industrial civilization." Video: COSMIC RELAXATION: 8 HOURS of 4K Deep Space NASA Footage + Chillout Music for Studying, Working, Etc (October 2020). The jug that serves as a refrigerator helps girls go to school The plastic nightmare "When China wakes up ... the world will shake" The ocean is running out of breath, scientists warn

Garbage has become a serious problem in the world today. According to a report published in Nature journal, the problem of garbage or solid waste is assuming dire proportions today. By the end of this century (2100), garbage will be collected at the rate of 11 million tons per day worldwide, more than three times the current rate. It implies that the generation of garbage which amounted to 3.5 million tons per day in 2010 will become 6 million tons per day by 2025. Currently, the population of India produces around 62 million tons of solid waste annually. Outside of this, 45 million tons of garbage are not treated and disposed of by civic agencies in an unscientific way. According to the report, urban India generates 109,589 tonnes of waste per day. Interestingly, the Urban US produces 624,700 tons of garbage per day, which is the highest in the world, while the second largest is urban China at 520,548 tons per day. India's waste generation will be over 376,639 tonnes per day by 2025, especially with urban India's population expected to increase to 538 million. What is garbage pollution? Garbage pollution occurs when waste collected in landfills rots, spreads odor and causes air pollution in surrounding areas, which also creates problems at the administrative level. Waste is often seen to include inorganic material like iron cans, paper, plastic, glass pieces or food scraps, animal bones, vegetable peels, etc. they are thrown into the open air. In areas where people keep animals for milk, poultry, or other animals, their feces also pollute the atmosphere. Often times, fire breaks out in landfills deliberately or inadvertently. Air pollution is also spread when garbage is burned outdoors in villages, posing a serious threat to health and the environment. Rivers are also victims of various types of pollution generated by industrial and domestic waste. Increased disposal of solid waste and sewage as well as the discharge of industrial effluents into water sources is ruining the landscape of beautiful places. Tourism prospects are taking a beating. What is the problem with the garbage? In ancient times, garbage generally only contained organic waste that was deposited on the ground, but the proportion of chemicals in waste increases with the fast pace of modern development. In countries like India, things previously used as bags were not harmful. Previously, ceramics were used for liquid substances, and the jute bag was used to transport goods. Now plastic has changed the situation and a problem has arisen with it because plastic never degrades. Its recycling is possible, but there is no adequate system to deposit it. Cities are being reduced to garbage dumps. Trash is present everywhere in one form or another, whether there is a town or a city, a temple or a mosque. This problem has been on the rise since the last three decades, leading to health problems and environmental degradation. Today we are victims of many types of waste, including domestic, agricultural and industrial. Tons of waste or garbage are produced each year, and only one percent is recycled. The rest accumulates in the fields or in the streets and at the end, during the rainy season; it reaches the oceans through rivers. There are many reasons for the production of garbage. One reason for this is increasing urbanization and prosperity. The stronger financially the country or city is, the more garbage it will produce. It can also be seen by linking poverty and prosperity, competition and inefficiency. This means that when the aspiration for services is high in populations, there will also be an increase in the amount of waste. Today, China and India are the leading examples of this in the world. Both are taking steps in economic development, but in the process, they are also producing piles of garbage. Other reasons for this include lifestyle change, lack of waste management and options, and also the huge issue of ethics that is rapidly eroding. We assume that it is our obligation to produce garbage and its disposal is the work of the government. Perhaps this is where we are making the biggest mistake. How does garbage contribute to air pollution? Today, the land, water and air have been polluted. Garbage is dumped in open spaces. Large factories emit a lot of smoke. Due to the dust particles in the smoke, the air becomes polluted. In addition to spreading bad smell, germs also breed in decaying garbage leading to various diseases. Mosquitoes, flies, and mice find fertile breeding grounds in mounds of waste. Garbage, from households and industrial waste, falls into rivers. This makes the river water polluted. Therefore, increasing garbage in the home, outside or in water sources has exacerbated the problem of air pollution. How does burning garbage affect the environment? Micro particles or particles are those toxic particles whose size is so small that they can enter our body through breathing and damage the lungs in particular. In India and China, all kinds of garbage, including plastic bottles and electronic items, are burned. According to scientists, this is the main cause of air pollution. Smoke from burning garbage not only poisons the air, but also increases the spread of disease. Recent research has provided information on the emission of toxic gases such as carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide due to burning waste. At the same time, it has been pointed out that airborne particles are also responsible for many types of diseases. According to researcher Rd. Christine Wiedinmyer, associate director of science at the University of Colorado, while conducting the research, she realized that we have very little information about waste management and trash burning. The need is to study in depth the different types of toxins emanating from such activities. Wiedinmyer has prepared for the first time a report in which all countries have been informed about air quality. This report will help governments modify their environmental policies. Most health-related measurements have been made according to the microscopic particles present in the air, in which attention is only paid to their size, not what they are made of. The report focuses on the different types of microscopic particles that have different effects on health and the environment. How can we stop or control garbage pollution? Waste is the main reason for environmental pollution in developed and developing countries. The increasing intensity of development is increasingly challenging. The environment becomes messy due to improper garbage disposal. But using modern technology, many developed countries have not only reduced pollution through waste management, but have also adopted it as their main source of energy. Many things thrown away can be reused. Waste of resources can be prevented by recycling and the environment can be conserved. If municipality facilities are not available, the following small-scale waste disposal measures can be taken: Composting / Vermiculture (i) Composting: This is the process by which household waste such as grass, leaves, food scraps, cow manure, etc. are used to make compost. A pot was dug to prepare the manure with manure and garbage. The size of the pit corresponds to the amount of garbage and the available space. Typically, a small rural family can dig up to 1 meter long and 1 meter wide and 0.8 meters deep. The top of the pit should be kept one to a half to two feet above ground level. Doing this will not cause rainwater to seep into it. Village households can put household garbage and manure in the pit. In this way, the manure is ready in about six months. This compost should be removed from the hole and covered with soil. Then it can be used for cultivation. Composting advantages: The extravagant grass seeds found in the fields are destroyed by the heat. Prevents pollution caused by decomposition of garbage. A good compost is prepared from the waste, which helps to increase the yield of the field. (ii) Vermiculture: this is a process of decomposition of organic matter by microorganisms under controlled conditions. In this, manure is prepared by decomposing organic waste such as vegetable husks, leaves, grass, crop residues, animal waste and food waste, etc., set in motion by earthworms. Under this method, a layer of organic waste material is placed in a wooden box or soil pit and some worms are released onto it. Trash is placed on top and water is sprayed to keep it moist. After a while, the worms consume large amounts of garbage or organic waste and make compost, a rich source of organic matter that plays an important role in maintaining soil fertility. In rural areas, manure, household waste, and agricultural waste are not fully used. Therefore, it is necessary that the villagers are informed about the production of fertilizers from waste to avoid contamination in rural areas. Collectively, waste is used in the best way. Garbage disposal in urban areas: Proper disposal for garbage disposal in cities is carried out by municipalities. But citizens need to remain vigilant to ensure that the work runs smoothly and that the waste is transported from a specified location to the municipal collection center from where it can be properly disposed of. If waste management is done by adopting modern techniques, the environment can be protected from pollution. Need for scientific waste management For proper garbage management, we have to make preparations to address this problem in four phases. As a first step, we must try to reduce the amount of waste generated per person. In fact, a small reduction in this amount would turn out to be a very large positive move. The second step should be recycling and reuse. By recycling a ton of iron, not only is the need for iron extraction reduced, but the emission of a ton of carbon dioxide is also avoided. In the third phase, we must produce biogas and organic manure from this biological waste that remains after recycling and reuse. Metals, batteries and light bulbs must be collected separately. The remaining flammable waste must be used as fuel to produce electricity, thus saving fossil fuels and reducing the amount of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere. In this case, we can learn a lot from Sweden. Sweden reuses and recycles 47 percent of the waste generated in its regions and uses 50 percent of the waste as fuel for energy production. Only 3% of unproductive waste needs to be thrown away. There, care is also taken to prevent the leakage of poisonous substances from landfills. There is a ban on placing organic and flammable waste in landfills. In Sweden, the responsibilities for collecting and treating garbage are distributed in such a way that there is no room for excuse. This work is divided between waste-producing industries, business houses, municipalities and private companies. Each task is delegated separately, such as the collection of garbage, its transport to treatment centers and its scientific treatment. It is the responsibility of the municipalities to collect household waste. Businesses that produce hazardous waste such as batteries, mirrors, light bulbs and electronic waste must adopt proper waste management and treatment. Underground tanks have been built there for municipal waste, which has been linked with large pipes; the last tip of this network goes up to the loading point. Trash is pushed from vacuum pressure to loading point where slurry is placed on vehicles and trash is transported to treatment centers. A network of different types of treatment centers has been established. It is estimated that Sweden produced 5,67,630 MW of power in 2013, for which 14,74,190 tons of domestic organic waste were treated. Bio gas is used as fuel for vehicles. Electricity is produced by burning the rest of the flammable residue in the insinuators; Its technique is very advanced, which generates very few gas emissions. Sweden is the most advanced country to produce electricity from waste. It creates three megawatts of energy from one ton of waste. Sweden, in 2013, imported 8,31,400 tons of garbage from other countries in Europe to help them deal with the waste problem. After burning the garbage in the incinerators, the residual ash is planted in construction work in the landfills. Fuel gas, resulting from the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil, and natural gas, is also treated to remove pollutants. The wrapping and packaging development industry has been concerned and endeavoring to offer a new generation of recyclable packaging and packaging that is more respectful of the environment. The global trend in the sector leads to responsible packaging with recycled and recyclable material, although the real solution is not to recycle but not to consume. Conclusion The example above shows that when garbage becomes a means of income, provisions for its treatment are also strengthened. By investing in the salaries of the sanitation workers involved in the treatment system, their conditions can be further improved. The burden of the public treasury decreases and employment opportunities also arise. If organized well, this system has the ability to advance on its own strength. As a society, we must rise above neglect of waste and kick the habit of dumping waste here and there. This problem arises when we transmit your solution to the government and consequently the solution becomes difficult. This change will have to enter the general thinking of society. With this, we can take serious and proactive measures for the elimination of garbage. We must remember that garbage in the wrong place poses a serious problem, but properly treated garbage is also a useful resource. The time has come when we should rethink our lifestyle. Whatever our population was until three decades ago, the amount of garbage generated was not that great, because our requirements were controlled. Today we do not have any activity that does not produce garbage. What to speak of the cities, even the villages that were known for their decency, peace and cleanliness have come under the influence of garbage. Previously, all village requirements were managed locally. Now urbanization has also entered rural areas. Nylon has replaced the rope used in the manufacture of cots. Now the clay jugs are beginning to disappear and are replaced by plastic containers. As in the cities, mobile phones, motorcycles and other modern products have also taken root in the villages. So there is no difference in the amount of garbage in cities and towns. We have learned everything from Western countries, but we cannot learn how conscious people are regarding cleanliness, which is maintained not simply as compliance with a rule or law, but as part of moral duty and social obligation there. People abroad consider the streets and other public places outside the home as part of their living space. But we believe that our responsibility is simply to clean our house. Consequently, we must instill a change in our attitude towards waste or garbage. 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Modern industrial agriculture is a source of serious human poisoning and destruction of the biodiversity that sustains the entire world biological cycle. It is known of the serious damage suffered in modern history by workers who worked in contact with the first agrochemicals, as well as those affected in areas surrounding fumigations and sprayed with these products. Pesticides and herbicides have been the main destroyers of fauna and flora displaced from agricultural fields, as well as diseases and injuries to humans. … For many years the serious effect of nitrogen-based and phosphate-based fertilizers applied on a large scale has been proven… However, for many years the serious effect of nitrogen-based and phosphate-based fertilizers applied on a large scale for prolonged periods has been proven, which are altering the physicochemical of soils and modifying climatic and hydrological cycles, as well as the phenomenon of eutrophication of surface waters adjacent to cultivated fields. Satellite images of the great lakes of North America as well as the death of the Aral Sea in Russia are dramatic examples of this effect. Recently, the toxic and probably carcinogenic power of the most widely used herbicide, glyphosate, has been officially accepted by the WHO. A substance that is sprayed almost like rain in our country without any control being applied other than the famous "agronomic recipe" and good practices that depend almost exclusively on the good will of the farmer. Only a very short time ago exclusion ordinances were enacted for the spraying of this product near urban areas, although there are studies that demonstrate the drift and atmospheric diffusion capacity of this substance at distances greater than those currently accepted as safe. And another effect not yet considered official and en masse is leachate by percolation, where various agents are dragged from the surface by the water to the subterranean layers when filtering. Nitrate, a primary component of synthetic fertilizers such as urea and a substance dangerous to human health due to its ability to change to nitrite, an agent of known carcinogenic power, has shown an enormous leaching capacity, mainly due to its solubility in water and other electrochemical characteristics. The layers below and around crop fields are impregnated with nitrates after decades of exaggerated and growing applications. The layers below and around crop fields are impregnated with nitrates after decades of exaggerated and growing applications. It must be remembered that urea is an excess fertilizer, that is, it adds exorbitant amounts of nitrate to the soil of which plants can only absorb and take advantage of a very small portion, leaving the rest for accumulation. It is still applied with that effect simply because it is cheap, being extracted by reforming natural gas. The concept of "cheap" that makes us dependent on non-renewable fossil resources. Cheap while there is, until it runs out. Therefore, no matter how you look at it, these fertilizers are not a stable source of resources but a precarious one. However, another substance that is essentially soluble in water, therefore susceptible to leaching, is glyphosate itself, the killer of plants that has already proven to be toxic to animals and men. Its producers assure that it does not generate percolation but that its toxic power remains only in soils and vents into the air, as a strange consolation to our concern. However, there is no field study that demonstrates such a theoretical postulate with certainty. In fact, there are already multiple positives in the analysis of glyphosate content of drinking well water in our country and around the world. One of them is the case of the “Paso a paso” school in the town of Almada, in Pehuajó Norte, whose director Marra Cristina De Zan requested the study after observing important variations in the health and capacities of children and teachers, in December of 2015. The study was carried out by the PRINARC Laboratory, of the Faculty of Chemical Engineering of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral of the city of Santa Fe, and resulted in a concentration of 3 +/- 1 ng / ml, being the maximum tolerable limit ( ?) a value of 0.6 ng / ml. The school is adjacent to soybean fields and the water well has a depth of 52 m, something that is not very compatible with superficial contamination and yes with a percolating process. Similar cases have been found in the US and Spain. At the moment there are hundreds of cities and country towns in our country whose drinking water is extracted from wells fed by water under similar exposure conditions. Video: Pesticides In Drinking Water: 5 Things To Know (October 2020). High impact What is the environmental impact of our current agricultural model? All schools must have organic gardens in Misiones They present 830 works that prove the toxicity of glyphosate

It is called Toxicological Anthology of Glyphosate and it is a response to the defense made of the herbicide by the companies that produce it and the Minister of Science Lino Barañao. More than 100 of the jobs are from public universities. A collection of evidence: "There is no evidence that glyphosate is harmful", repeat over and over again the defenders of transgenic agriculture in reference to the most widely used herbicide in the world. "It is like water with salt," said the Minister of Science, Lino Barañao. A recent compilation of scientific research, Glyphosate Toxicological Anthology, reports 830 academic works (from Argentina and abroad) that account for the chemical and its link to cancer, malformations, poisonings and spontaneous abortions, among other conditions. In Argentina, glyphosate is applied to more than 28 million hectares, more than 200 million liters each year. The soybean, corn and cotton fields are sprayed with the herbicide so that nothing grows, except the transgenic ones. It is also used in citrus, pome fruit trees (apple, pear, quince), vine, yerba mate, sunflower, pines and wheat. As a result of the transgenic advance, the use of glyphosate, developed and marketed by Monsanto since the 1970s, increased, although the license expired in 2000 and it is currently produced by a hundred companies. “This compilation adds 830 scientific articles or papers, clinical, experimental and laboratory research reports, reviews, answers, compilation and conference summaries that have been published in scientific journals. All the works have been submitted for review by a committee of scientists and approved for publication as they are considered significant ”, explains the work, carried out by Eduardo Martín Rossi, a member of the Paren de Fumigar de Santa Fe collective. Of 182 pages, it can be accessed via Internet, it has the description and link of the investigations. More than one hundred are from public universities in Argentina (UBA, La Plata, Río Cuarto, Litoral). The first chapter requires 141 papers on the impact of glyphosate on human health. Chapter two details 102 investigations on "mechanism of cellular pathophysiology of cancer." Chapter three is devoted to "toxicity in organ systems", with 89 academic publications. Chapter four is dedicated to specific studies of impact “on biodiversity”, with 336 investigations. "It is no coincidence that hypothyroidism, bronchial asthma, reproductive disorders and oncological diseases multiply in agricultural towns, producing an evident change in the pattern of morbidity and mortality", warns the work. And remember that in 1996, when the Carlos Menem government approved the first transgenic soybeans (from Monsanto), three liters of glyphosate were applied per hectare. Currently up to fifteen liters are used, even with other pesticides (such as 2-4D). The compilation, which had the collaboration and editing of the lawyer specialized in the environment Fernando Cabaleiro (from the Nature of Rights organization), recalls that Monsanto advertised "with false information that glyphosate was biodegradable." In 2007 Monsanto was convicted in France of misleading advertising. Dozens of investigations show, for decades, that the herbicide "is highly persistent in the environment, in the soil and water courses." Among the companies that sell glyphosate in Argentina are Monsanto, Bayer, Syngenta, Red Surcos, Atanor, Asociación de Cooperativas Argentinas, Nufram, Agrofina, Nidera, DuPont, YPF and Dow. The anthology denounces that the authorization of pesticides (called "phytosanitary" by companies and officials) is carried out based on studies carried out by the companies themselves and that it only analyzes the acute effects (they do not investigate what a chemical produces in the long term of exposure ). In the case of glyphosate, "Monsanto only experimented with rodents for three months." Based on this study, the company determined that the herbicide did not produce adverse effects. “Independent scientists measured chronic effects (over two years). From the fourth month the male rodents presented tumors. From the seventh month the same process began in females. And in month 24, 80 percent of rodents had tumors ", explains the compilation. The National Service for Agrifood Health and Quality (Senasa) is the state body that evaluates and authorizes the use of pesticides. It is denounced by socio-environmental organizations, NGOs and by the Senasa workers themselves of being dominated by large agribusiness companies. "The last review of environmental safety and food safety of glyphosate in Argentina was in 2000. At that date there were no protocols to evaluate chronic and carcinogenic risks," the authors of the compilation denounce. And they demand that Senasa reassess the authorization of glyphosate, based on independent studies (not from the companies). Video: The secret tactics Monsanto used to protect Roundup, its star product. Four Corners (October 2020).

I can't count how many times I've heard people speculating, joking, or jokingly speculating that their cell phone could be causing cancer. It comes from a very reasonable place of discomfort: few people understand how radiation works, we put our phones next to our brains all the time, and technology in general often feels like it should be causing some kind of social illness. So what is the problem? Cell phones have been around for three decades, shouldn't we have the answer to whether they lead to cancer in humans? Our current understanding of radio waves says that, in theory, phones shouldn't give you cancer. But we are still investigating to see if that is true in practice. "There is a widespread exposure here in our society and we have to make sure we understand it." Telephone radiation is not like radiation from, say, nuclear fusion. That's what's known as "ionizing" radiation - it's high energy and capable of damaging your DNA, which the researchers determined leads to cancer. Phones emit much lower energy radiation (lower even than visible light) that is considered “non-ionizing”. We know that non-ionizing radiation does not damage DNA in the same way that ionizing radiation does. But the question remains whether it could still react with the body in some other way that could lead to long-term exposure problems. To learn the status of research on the link between telephones and cancer, we spoke with Jonathan Samet, dean of the Colorado School of Public Health and an expert in telephone radiation who led a World Health Organization task force on the topic. . In 2011, the WHO group considered phone radiation to be "possibly carcinogenic", which is less true than other classifications, but it is not a resounding "no" either. Six years later, Samet said the evidence in both directions is still mixed and that, for now, there remains "some indication" of risk. "I am not saying that there is a public health crisis in any way," Samet said, "but I am saying that this is a very pervasive exposure in our society and we need to make sure we understand it." Since we spoke with Samet, more details emerged of a large study that transmitted high levels of telephone radiation in rats and mice. While there are still quirks in the findings, the latest evidence has yet to find a link between phone radiation and cancer. In response, the FDA said, "Taken together, all of this research ... [has] given us confidence that current safety limits for cell phone radiation remain acceptable to protect public health." For now, it's best not to waste too much time worrying - you're surrounded by cell phone signals, Wi-Fi signals, and all other types of radio frequency radiation coming in and going out, not just when you hold the phone up to your face. And until evidence suggests otherwise, all of this is still considered a lower cancer risk than eating red meat (which shouldn't be as scary, either). As you will see, there is still not enough evidence that they can or cannot cause cancer, however it might be wise to take some steps to reduce your exposure to the waves emitted by your phone. Here are some tips Video: The Proof Cell Phones Can Cause Cancer Was Covered Up (October 2020).

In a municipality in Guatemala, the authorities prohibited the use of straws, duroport and plastic bags. The population supports the drastic measure. In San Pedro La Laguna, the population, mostly from the Tz'utujil ethnic group, lives off trade and tourism, but the contamination of the Lake's waters has been one of the biggest concerns for years, so this measure, the third in the country has been viewed favorably. Fernando, a Tz’utujil butcher who works in the market, thinks that getting rid of the plastic is the best option: “Banana leaves serve the same purpose as bags and do not pollute our lake. Customers already ask for them. So we will all be happier ”. Also María, a shy seller who deals with seafood, has adopted the provision with pleasure and although she admits that “some are still using bags”, she expresses her wish that they stop doing it and switch to banana leaves: “They are better for the environment". Video: Ross Kemp: In Search Of Somali Pirates Episode 1. Full Documentary. True Crime (October 2020). Deforestation of the Mayans decimated carbon stocks in the soil Actions for compliance with the Paris Agreement will be negotiated at the Katowice summit Chemotherapy kills even healthy cells, cannabis only cancers

"In the name of environmental sustainability, companies and government show their vocation and professionalism when they arrive in our territory, they walk with their heavy boots on our rights enshrined in the Constitution, in international laws and in our word. old, to install in our sacred land its mega-business of solar or wind farm ”. In the Mayan territory of the Yucatan Peninsula, the wind turbine and the photovoltaic cell have arrived to produce electrical energy through the wind and the sun; we celebrate as a Mayan people this new technique that reduces environmental pollution, is implemented in various parts of the world. What we reject is the way it has come to us, it is being installed as was done with the bible and the gospel, from being a book that contains a message of hope, to a symbol of pain and death, but more than the bible itself itself, the problem is how it got to us; lying, subduing, dispossessing, destroying and murdering, this is how the so-called clean energies come to us today; deforesting, dispossessing, manipulating, threatening and victimizing. We came to think that the “clean” thing said about them is because it is going to be used to sweep away the Mayan people. In the name of the Sustainability of the environment, companies and the government, show their vocation and professionalism when they arrive in our territory, they walk with their heavy boots on our rights enshrined in the Constitution, in international laws and in our old word , to install your solar or wind farm mega-business in our sacred land. After the highly rehearsed speech on the goodness of renewable energies, before the assembly of ejidatarios or small owners, they exhibit some bills in front of some hopeless and hungry illiterate elderly, like a trainer showing a fish to his dolphin that has given the good tourist show, so that they sign white sheets or usufruct contracts that are written in a foreign language in which the clauses only favor the businessman who keeps all the copies of said contract for himself. An immediate result is the division and conflict in the Mayan communities, between those who are easily manipulated by the company's mercenaries and others who demand greater clarity about the impact of these firms on their right to conserve their land and territory, which make a effort to make strange attitudes visible; Finally, these ways of acting turn out to be abuses by company officials and government agents at the service of megaprojects. The Mayan communities are not going to benefit from the energy that is going to be produced on their land, they will not stop paying electricity, they will not be able to make more cornfields in those spaces or cut firewood, or hunt, or enter those polygons, since they will be fenced and guarded, although they assure them that they will be able to do so. Those of us who love our land and territory, inherited from our Mayan ancestors, want in the same way to inherit it to our children so that they can take care of it, that they can live in a healthy environment with the same affection and respect that we have learned from our grandparents; We know that we have those rights, but we have seen how they have violated us to strip us of our values ​​through the traps of a colonizing model. We decided to organize ourselves for the protection of our territory, we are an Assembly of Defenders of the Maya Múuch ’Xíinbal Territory; From this space enabled by more than 25 communities of the Mayan people, we made the following agreement: “We neither sell the land, nor do we rent it”; with the word of all and all we make possible the defense of our territory with good results. We have started with the public denouncement of dispossession, we built alliances with other peoples, organizations, universities and the media to unmask the lie of the neo-colonizers and finally make use of the legal route through the protections for the violation of our right to be consulted, to give our consent where appropriate; all this within the framework of our autonomy and self-determination that allows us to decide the model we want for the use of renewable energies. We neither sell nor rent our lands ... Video: The Problem With Renewable Energy and how were fixing it (October 2020).

Why is Cuba, the red one, turning green? What made it possible for the Inuit Indians in the largest country in the world to become the rightful owners of a fifth of Canadian territory? How did 130 thousand farms of organic agriculture arise in Europe? Why did poets like Octavio Paz, billionaires like Douglas Tompkins, theologians like Leonardo Boff, politicians like Misael Gorvachov, or artists like Maurice Béjart, recognize the supreme enterprise in defense of the planet? Why is Cuba, the red one, turning green? What made it possible for the Inuit Indians in the largest country in the world to become the rightful owners of a fifth of Canadian territory? How did 130 thousand farms of organic agriculture arise in Europe? Why did poets like Octavio Paz, billionaires like Douglas Tompkins, theologians like Leonardo Boff, politicians like Misael Gorvachov, or artists like Maurice Béjart, recognize the supreme enterprise in defense of the planet? This is the first in a series of four videos on how farmers feed the world. As reaffirmed during the Second International Symposium on Agroecology sponsored by FAO in early April, more than a set of agricultural practices, agroecology is deeply political and it includes many aspects related to food sovereignty and farmers' rights. Master Recipe: Vegetarian Lasagna without Pasta

The National Seed Law allows large food corporations to appropriate the seeds that will later become fruits and vegetables. Taking over the seeds, patenting them and preventing their free distribution makes them possessors of a significant power: our food. To better understand this story we must put some points on the same level. It will be necessary to make some preliminary clarifications, so that this reading is fair for everyone, generationally speaking. In this article there will be some mixed information because historical analysis, when it reviews, does so by mixing times and situations. So, the most relevant characters in this writing will be companies. Very powerful multinational corporations. We will also mention people who changed human history forever. 1) Monsanto: American company that dedicated its resources to the chemical industry. He began synthesizing sweeteners for Coca-Cola, until he was able to modify the genetics of seeds and food-producing plants globally, such as soybeans, for example, to grow faster and tolerate pesticides. 2) Bayer: German company that dedicated its resources to the pharmaceutical industry and scientific research. 3) Hitler: Genocide. German politician. He came to power by direct election. Leader of the National Socialist Party. He was one of the greatest assassins in human history. It conquered almost all of Europe giving rise to the Second World War. 4) Josef Menguele: Adolf Hitler's personal physician. He worked tirelessly on research on human genome, mutations, genetic cloning. All investigations and tests were conducted on humans of Jewish origin. Doing a historical analysis can be boring, but the present, what happens to us today, has its origin in the past. And this, what happens to us today, is explained to us by the past, in the present: why do we eat the food that we eat, why do we listen to the music that is playing, why do we get sick from the diseases that afflict us? Cancer, diabetes, H.I.V, leukemia, stress, obesity and many other pandemic diseases currently have a very high number of incidence worldwide. And this, in large part, is due to the intervention of the human being. But not just any human, but the transnational entrepreneur human being linked to other human beings who administer spaces of power and strategic influence at a global level (almost all elderly and white men). In June of this year it was precisely known Bayer, the German giant of the laboratory chemical industry, acquired another giant, but of the food industry: Monsanto. The figure is $ 63 billion. On the official Monsanto website, the infographic reads as follows: “Bayer has successfully completed the acquisition of Monsanto. By strengthening our agriculture division and portfolio of bioscientific products, the acquisition is a significant step forward for Bayer, our employees, our customers and our shareholders. Bayer will continue to update the content of this site until the completion of the Monsanto integration process ”. For Bayer, its employees, its customers and shareholders this is a step forward… for humanity it is disease and genetic deformation. "Monsanto makes us sick and Bayer medicates us" A first question occurs to me: If Monsanto worldwide is being so questioned by organizations of different origins and even by States, for what reason, then Bayer, a corporation that in the collective unconscious has such prestige, acquire this giant The grains? Let's try some answers ... Is it Bayer good? Bayer turned 155 in history. Ok, it's a lot. But, if there is something, the years are history and the stories intersect. In those 150 years of history, there were also the years of Nazism. Hitler and Bayer shared a singular passion for Aryan Germany. The products used in the gas chambers of the clandestine concentration camps were Bayer products. The contributions of money, research materials and various resources destined for the scientific research of Nazism, had a unique destination: Josef Mengele and genetic manipulation. And this is precisely where the question asked above has a singular and precise link: Monsanto modifies the genetics of the seeds that feed us. Bayer worked alongside Hitler's sinister doctor on the genetic modification of humans. Cloning was attempted long before we met Dolly the sheep born in Scotland in 1996. But let's go back to Monsanto: in the service of Death Not only Bayer has collaborated with the darkest in the history of mankind by providing knowledge and resources. Monsanto made its contribution to obscurity when, mediating the Vietnam War (the United States militarily invades Vietnamese territory to prevent the unification of Vietnam as a socialist and / or communist country, between 1964 and 1975), a new period in the history of the War and humanity: The use of chemical weapons. Monsanto was the company that contributed the most herbicides and chemical compounds to the US government, giving rise to a deadly and highly harmful weapon called Agent Orange. More than 40 years after the US invasion of Vietnam, the aftermath of Agent Orange continues to appear in Vietnamese victims. Did we see it in the movies? Well some dared to show it, warmly. But it is literature and journalistic work that shed light on these events. Julio Cortázar inManuel's book, tells us harshly and in his style what happened. Manuel will one day be a reader of all that horror and pain suffered by many people. But there are events that are pushing humanity and we are there, distracted, looking at the screen that entertains us. Apart from literature, this text is an invitation to think beyond the short term. The Monsanto event has several imposing edges that require analysis It is the most powerful and influential company in the agricultural sector, it handles 30% of the world's seeds and together with Bayer, it would have even greater control; since Bayer controls 25% of the world's pesticides. Monsanto genetically modified and patented countless seeds. But what does it mean to genetically modify? For example, you consume a lemon. You take out the juice, pulp and seeds. Of all the seeds that the lemon contains, you can germinate all, let's put 8 or 9 seeds. Of that amount, only one or two will take root and be a future fruit tree. But that little tree will not bear fruit. Seeds are not a means of reproduction, since that is what genetic modification consists of. They are more resistant to pests and above all, they resist the pesticides that Monsanto itself markets. In other words, producers, peasants, ruralistas, buy a pack, a combo of seeds + pesticide. The account is round and spits out profits every time you spin. It is estimated that in 2050 the world population will be 9 billion inhabitants. Feeding them all will undoubtedly generate pornographic profits and Bayer understood the game perfectly. But what is all this little Monsanto and Bayer story about? A few weeks ago in Buenos Aires, the Seed Law was being discussed. At the same time, the international seed lobby fires dollars and bullets everywhere. The National Seed Law allows large food corporations to take ownership and appropriate the seeds that will later become fruits and vegetables. Owning the seeds, patenting them and preventing their free distribution makes them possessors of a significant power: OUR FOOD. What does lobbying mean? Agents of powerful companies or governments approach different sectors (politicians, universities, medical specialists, nutritionists, pedagogues, psychologists, journalists, etc.), disburse money and influence to acquire "good results" that influence the population so that their products or proposals are successful, profitably speaking. On November 26, the lobbyists ofLet's change - PRO, employees of large corporations, acted on their extortion and influence policies. They presented a bill written and designed by the Asociación de Semilleros Argentinos (ASA). Support for the project is provided by the Association of Direct Sowing Producers (Aapresid), to which the Minister of Agroindustry, Luis Miguel Etchevere, former president of the Argentine Rural Society, has been awarded by Macri with this fundamental Ministry. Etchevere was an active participant in the so-called Liaison Table, he knew how to shake hands with that marmot bishop and functional ruralista named Alfredo De Angelis. But the scandal and the scam do not end only in the legislative. Bayer-Monsanto, ChemChina-Syngenta, Corteva (Dow-DuPont) and BASF, handle 90% of the seed market in the world. And they are the ones that promote in Latin America, laws and patents that prohibit the ancestral way of linking with seeds. This means that the farmers, all of them, have to pay the scammers, corporations backed by the political sector, a fee for the use of seeds. The Bill contemplates that the State, through subsidies, be responsible for this expense. Specifically, what Minister Etchevere and his business bosses propose is to give international corporations the right to take possession of the seeds that they will feed us and also have the State pay them for that. Glyphosate, that poison ... Monsanto's official website says that glyphosate is an active ingredient present in all Roundup herbicides. And it makes it clear that glyphosate does not cause cancer, birth defects, or DNA damage, nor does it have effects on the nervous or immune systems, nor does it cause endocrine disorders or reproductive problems, and that a lot of prestigious analyzes prove it. But let's see ... In 2015, the Télam Agency told us about a study carried out in Mar del Plata, where of all the people studied, 90% of them found glyphosate in their blood. Three years later, the same media said that glyphosate is present throughout the environmental system and that Argentina is the largest consumer of glyphosate in the world per inhabitant. Damián Marino, scientist at the Center for Environmental Research, a body that depends on CONICET, indicated that, in the last 10 years, 1 billion liters of glyphosate entered the country. This would be equivalent to 10 liters of glyphosate for each Argentine. Marino also explains that glyphosate kills everything green except those genetically modified sprouts like soybeans, corn and cotton. Do you want to tell me that we eat glyphosate residue in our meals? Don't overdo it, you want! Not only that. The range is so wide that the consequences will be, in the not so distant future, very revealing and devastating for the human body. Cotton in Argentina, as in other countries in the world, is sprayed with glyphosate when the flower opens on the tree. The herbicide penetrates the fibers and there it lasts, because if Monsanto boasts of anything, it is that glyphosate persists for many years. Our cotton, the one you and I have in the bathroom, panty liners and feminine wipes, feminine tampons, even diapers, contain residues of this herbicide. Some countries take political and health measures in this regard. France, Canada, for example, places where glyphosate tries to be banned due to the impact it causes on health, recalled products contaminated with glyphosate. The United States government has a particular interest in Colombia. The FARC, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, control or controlled much of the peasant territories in the interior of Colombia. The fact itself is complex, we are not going to dwell on this analysis, but on a detail. The FARC coca plantations were sprayed with Glyphosate for several years. Systematically, hydrant planes flew over the jungles spraying this poison. The recommendation came from the northern government. Argentina, that country so far away Meanwhile, in Argentina, the largest per capita consumer of glyphosate on the planet, the national government defends the use of the herbicide. He moves his ministerial puppets to represent corporations. Something is not right in this game, where we vote representatives who play for the opposite side. Lino Barañao, Minister of Science, Technology and Productive Innovation of the Government of Cristina Fernández, continues in the position of the macrista function, as Secretary of Science and Technology. This graduate in chemical sciences exposed a singular political action favoring the development of Monsanto in the country. And here, despite many, Peronism has a historical responsibility. Felipe Solá is the founder of this phenomenon called Monsanto and Transgenic Soy, when he was a minister in the Duhalde government, and then Kirchnerism did its thing. He approved the entry of Monsanto indiscriminately. Without regulation, ignoring specialists of international rigor, and here, in this instance, Barañao plays a spartan role: the persecution of any glyphosate researcher. Anyone who hears the statements of the lobbyist official will be able to infer that Barañao undoubtedly works for the most questioned herbicide corporation on the planet. And as proof of this, a few weeks ago, Minister Barañao said at a press conference, after defending the use of pesticides, that "people also die from drinking too much water", in a clear display of cynicism and stupidity, as this government has us used to. The province of Entre Ríos this year achieved a law that prohibits spraying less than a thousand meters from rural schools. Violent events have occurred many times on the part of the soybean gang, the same one that promoted the roadblocks with the 125 a few years ago with Alfredo de Angelis at the head, later awarded by this financial sepoy group called Cambiemos, with a bank in the low camera. And it is precisely in Entre Ríos, where Fabián Tomasi worked, filling the hydrant tanks of the planes that sprayed the plantations with glyphosate. Fabián Tomasi, who died in September this year, highlighted the deadly consequences of this product. Within months he developed fatal cancer. Suffered a severe metabolic toxic polyneuropathy, that causes a dysfunction of a part of the central nervous system. In the province of Córdoba, Sofía Gatica is an exponent of the resistance against ecoterrorism carried out by agrotoxic corporations. Andrés Carrasco, scientist, researcher and former president of Conicet, head of the embryology department of the UBA, photographer, now deceased, investigated and documented the effects produced by the pesticide. He was also Secretary of Science in the Ministry of Defense of the government of Cristina Fernández. Carrasco was persecuted, threatened, intimidated and discredited. Barañao, the same man who today plays for macrismo and who considers that people are dying from drinking too much water, publicly took charge of denying Carrasco's work. But Carrasco and his investigations were not only debated in the Argentine countryside and in the Buenos Aires ministries, but his name also appeared in the complaints made by Edward Snowden. In 2011, WikiLeaks published a diplomatic cable from the US embassy in which it was evidenced that the scientist had been investigated for his studies on the chemical compound. A little further here in time, we have the excellent work done byVanesa Rosales de la Quintana for Paco Urondo Agency. The facts happen, you just have to connect them The World Health Organization established glyphosate as a "probably carcinogenic" product. What prevails is the optimization of profits regardless of the cost that this causes. Communicational and political manipulation do the rest. Not many years ago, the use and consumption of tobacco was socially accepted. Very few raised their voices against the toxicological content of cigarettes, that legal over-the-counter drug. You could smoke in the bus, hospitals, classrooms and hallways of universities, offices, elevators, etc. Today the irreversible and fatal damage caused by tobacco consumption is indisputable. Smokers are well aware of this harm, but engineered drugs work like this, generating addiction and dependence. Perhaps when we have real awareness of the deadly consequences glyphosate has on all of us, it may be too late. Actually, it's already late. The media fence works A wall without windows that no one can see. The media say nothing about it. But there are many people dedicated to reporting and investigating the consequences of this commercial and everyday poison in the food we consume. The non-degraded remains remain and remain in the food that we put on the table every day. Social networks alert and militate with overwhelming force. The need to raise awareness in the populations is urgent. They do constant work, without funding and with no interest other than raising social awareness about this chemical phenomenon and mainly because of the political subjugation that it produces in small and medium ruralistas who are against the soy export model. The powerful are ahead of us. Henry Kissinger, when he was Defense Minister of Jimmy Carter, president of the United States between 1977 and 1981, carried out the process of “green expansion”. And in this context he argued that"Whoever controls food, controls humanity." Video: Bayer + Monsanto = A Match Made in Hell (October 2020).

On July 1, the regulations that oblige businesses to charge for single-use plastic bags came into force. After many months discussing plastic bags, there is already a Royal Decree on the table that obliges businesses to charge for single-use plastic bags from Sunday, and that requires their withdrawal from the market as of 2021. The legislation also includes a ban on oxodegradable plastic bags in 2020. A material that breaks down into small plastic particles in a very short time; bags that tend to have a shorter shelf life than regular plastic bags. Despite these advances, regulations allow bags to be replaced by biodegradable bags, so the proposal continues to delve into the throwaway model. With this Royal Decree the extraction of natural resources is not limited but rather the problem is transferred from one material to another. In addition, not all biodegradable bags are made of 100% organic materials, some still have percentages of plastic from petroleum in their composition. On the other hand, compostable bags create problems if they end up in conventional plastic recycling streams, reducing the quality of recycled plastic. For this reason, Friends of the Earth considers that the opportunity to promote the real reduction of waste, to bet on reusable and durable alternatives, such as cloth bags, baskets or trolleys has been lost. In turn, the environmental organization points out that the measure comes too late and emphasizes the need to implement proposals to reduce plastic pollution from different containers and disposable products, due to the seriousness of the problem. The forecasts made by the Ellen McArthur Foundation indicate that, if the model of consumption and generation of plastic waste is not changed, in 2050 there will be more plastic than fish in the oceans. “We have spent years demanding effective measures to eliminate single-use plastic bags and other products such as plates, glasses, cutlery, and demanding reusable alternatives. The royal decree on bags is a first step on this path, but it should have been more ambitious, ”says Alodia Pérez, head of Natural Resources and Waste at Amigos de la Tierra. Once the plastic bag reduction measure is implemented, it is necessary to start working on other products, as proposed by the European Union in the draft Directive on single-use plastic. Alodia Pérez, Head of Natural Resources and Waste at Amigos de la Tierra, 649 420 922 Teresa Rodríguez Pierrard, communication manager of Friends of the Earth, Tel. 680 936 327, [email protected] Video: Plastic Bag Ban Comes Into Force In Kenya. Network Africa (October 2020).

Year after year, thousands of square kilometers of forests are destroyed by human activities, especially by the advance of the agricultural frontier. Each year around 150,000 square kilometers of forest are destroyed, or what is the same, 190 times the city of New York. To date, 50% of the forests on planet earth have already been cut down and such deforestation is very serious, threatening the life of other plant and animal species and human beings by generating a climate imbalance. How many trees are left? What are the causes of deforestation? Why should indiscriminate logging be stopped? What solutions are currently on the table? And most importantly, what solutions should be adopted and are not being applied for geopolitical or economic reasons? Half of all the trees on the planet have already been cut down Since the beginning of civilization, half of the trees that inhabited the planet have been lost. But global deforestation has accelerated in recent decades to the point that it endangers human existence and that of the planet. 15 billion trees are cut down each year. But to put this figure in context you have to know how many trees there are on the planet. The journal Nature published a study in 2015 that provided the most accurate estimate to date. The study quantified that there were about 3 billion trees, at a rate of 422 per person. According to the aforementioned study, the distribution of trees on the planet is not the same. At the extremes we find countries like Bolivia that has 5000 trees per person and at the other, Israel where there are only two. It is clear that these inequalities are due to natural factors but the activity of man is added. We find an example in the present-day Harrapan desert in Pakistan, once an area very rich in forests. The indiscriminate felling of trees caused a change in the climate and the cessation of the rain. This ended up killing the last forests. Today this area is a semi-desert, arid, incapable of maintaining the biodiversity of yesteryear. If we continue at this rate of deforestation, in 300 years we will no longer have trees on the face of the earth. But before reaching this figure, many species, including ours, will have a very difficult survival. With all this information, why are trees still being cut down? It is complex to give an answer, since the arguments are various, especially of an economic and social nature. Unfortunately, felling of trees in some countries becomes indiscriminate and in the worst case, it is not legal. Following the massive destruction of the forest are logging, agriculture and livestock. In many cases, the wood of native trees is used and in others they are cut down to replace them with other species. In any case, the forests end up being converted into large fields for crops or food for livestock. Other causes are added, such as urbanization, mining, oil and gas exploitation, hydroelectric plants, etc. All these activities are carried out on a large scale and drastically, which means that the forest can never recover again. There is also damage to the rest of the biodiversity, to soils and water cycles. Other factors also play a role, such as a vicious cycle in the deterioration of forests. Climate change itself, the result in part of the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere by cutting down trees, causes extreme weather changes and catastrophes such as droughts, floods and fires. At the social level, migration programs, wars, the privatization of communal lands or the fact that tropical forests are too poor to support conventional agriculture also have an impact on forests. But perhaps the greatest cause of deforestation will come in the future at the hands of global climate change, one of the most devastating consequences of the disappearance of forests. What are the consequences of mass deforestation? The most dramatic impact of the decline in forest cover is the loss of habitat for millions of species, not just animals, but plants. 70% of the planet's animals and plants live in forested environments. Many cannot survive deforestation that destroys their environment. At the local level it has more consequences: the increase in pests, the decrease in the pollination of crops, the erosion of the soils and the lack of water. But if we look at the globality of the planet, deforestation has a negative effect that affects us all: climate change. This is a vicious cycle that must be stopped. As the planet's temperature increases, forests will no longer be able to survive in their regions of origin. Trees could adapt and migrate to other regions, but this is a slow process that will not be possible at the accelerated rate of deforestation and the increase in temperature that is taking place. But what can be done? A first step in reducing forest loss would be to promote sustainable consumption. You should consume less, waste less, recycle more and respect more. Plant fast-growing trees that can be used in a few years as a source of forest products. Promote the reforestation of devastated areas. Not only as a measure for the elimination of CO2 but as a solution to the recovery of biodiversity. Implement the measures adopted in the Kyoto Protocol, in a real way and without cheating. Promote agroforestry systems that maintain certain species of trees in conjunction with agricultural land use. Reuse raw material already processed to avoid further felling of trees. Promote aid and training policies to the peasants to prevent their only resources from continuing to expand the agricultural frontier. Video: A safer way to fall a tree. (October 2020).

A new winter spectacle amazes tourists and residents of the border that borders the United States with Canada. Is that the storm ‘Harper’ has left the well-known Niagara Falls frozen. The last time that the falls froze was in 2014 and as then, this natural enclave located on the border between the United States and Canada is a great tourist attraction for the region. Local media report that the cold has frozen much of the falls, offering postcards to remember. The falls are partially frozen, the water flows but with gigantic blocks of ice, which also causes a different visual spectacle. Harper's Storm For several days now, the winter storm Harper has hit the north-central region of the United States. The lowest temperatures that have been recorded reached 21 degrees below zero in states like Maine and Vermont. Faced with the cold snap, the National Weather Service has issued storm alerts in at least 15 states across the country, between southeastern Missouri and the extreme north of the state of Maine. They warn about the danger of stalactites and freezing on routes. Video: Ice Climbing Frozen Niagara Falls - Will Gadds First Ascent (October 2020). How to make a potato last 20 years, the secret of the Andes ... A small country in the South Pacific will ban disposable diapers

Exceeding ordinances on the use of pesticides in order to care for health and the environment Although there is research on the subject of pesticides from different angles - such as drift, toxicity, soil studies, health camps, health conditions that they cause - we have not found comparative studies on existing ordinances. As a consequence of this, the present investigation is carried out. During the 1990s, under the presidencies of Carlos S. Menem (1989-1999), Argentina adopted neoliberalism as an economic, political and social model. Between 1991 and 1994, the national regulatory framework was transformed, in order to generate the necessary conditions for the development of the free movement of goods, services and capital. Regarding the agricultural sector, almost all taxes on exports were eliminated and the regulatory bodies that had allowed the coexistence of economically and socially heterogeneous actors were dismantled. (GRAS AND HERNÁNDEZ, 2014: 47) In this context, RR (Roundup Ready®) soybeans, tolerant to glyphosate herbicide, were commercially released in 1996 and since then"Argentina was the figurehead with which genetically modified crops reached 24.5 million hectares planted in this last season." (PENGUE, 2016) In relation to the advancement of the production of transgenics, the use of chemical preparations has increased exponentially in the production of agriculture in Argentina; between 1996 and 2015 the use of pesticides increased 423% (data from the Chamber of Agricultural Health and Fertilizers -CASAFE- prepared by the University Network of Environment and Health -REDUAS-). There is a wide bibliography of studies from public universities that find connections between these compounds and the increase in different health problems in sprayed towns, such as cancer, thyroid problems, spontaneous abortions, respiratory and epidermal conditions, birth defects, etc.“The so-called 'fumigated towns', show a social reaction that is impossible to ignore and are the main emerging of an expansion over an uneven and terminal territory and that is reflected in the appearance of increasing cases of diseases linked to the potential use of pesticides "(PENGUE, 2016) Over time, this production model has shown its impact on the environment and health, since"When entire fields are sprayed with glyphosate from the air (...) they harm both the production and the health of thousands of neighboring neighbors ..."(TEUBAL, 2006) Drift is the deviation of the trajectory of the sprayed / fumigated broth droplets from the previously defined target. There are three drifts: the primary, the one that occurs at the time of fumigation and / or spraying (produced by different variables, among which the climatic ones are fundamental, as a factor external to the control of the operator of the applicator machine); the secondary one, that which is generated in the hours following the application; and the tertiary one that can occur weeks, months or years after application (leaching in streams of water, change to a gaseous state, accumulation in microorganisms or larger species, decomposition into metabolites, reaction with molecules from the environment, absorption, adsorption with substrates ground). Based on the recognition of the three drifts that we have developed, the definition of a minimum distance from spraying to populated centers should lead us to consider distances greater than 4,800 meters, which is the maximum distance that the smallest drop of a application in optimal climatic conditions. (TOMASONI: 2013) Video: The Effects of Pesticides on the Environment (October 2020).

"For the third consecutive year there is bad news" for Latin America and the Caribbean, where hunger figures increased and "it affects 39.3 million people", 6.1 percent of its population, he summarized with regret this Wednesday 7 Julio Berdegué, Regional Representative of FAO. Berdegué presented at the regional headquarters of the organization in Santiago the conclusions of the Panorama of Food and Nutritional Security 2018, which brings more bad news: malnutrition and obesity also grew, in a situation closely linked to the persistence of inequality in the countries region of. The document was jointly prepared by the regional division of four UN agencies: FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), the United Nations Fund for Childhood (Unicef), and the World Food Program (WFP). The four organizations called on the governments of the region to implement public policies that combat inequality and promote healthy and sustainable food systems. “There is no material or scientific reason that justifies hunger. We completed five years without progress and three in retreat. We make an alert call to governments and societies, ”Berdegué stressed during the presentation. The regional representative highlighted the case of Colombia where "peace begins to pay dividends in the eradication of hunger", referring to the positive effects of the agreements reached between the government and the guerrillas in 2016. At the other extreme appears Venezuela, which became one of the countries with the highest number of people who suffer from hunger: 3.7 million people who are 11.7 percent of its population. Since 2014, Argentina, Bolivia and Venezuela have increased the number of undernourished people. The greatest suddenness occurred in Venezuela with an increase of 600,000 people, only between the 2014-2016 and 2015-2017 triennia, reveals the Panorama. Other countries highly affected by hunger are Haiti, with five million people, equivalent to 45.7 percent of its population, and Mexico with 4.8 million, representing 3.8 percent of its population. However, in both Haiti and Mexico, hunger declined in the last three years. The same in Colombia and the Dominican Republic. These are the only four countries in the region that have achieved a reduction since 2014. "If Haiti can do it (reduce hunger), all other countries can," Berdegué said emphatically. According to the Panorama, the speed of hunger in the region increased because between 2015 and 2016 the number of undernourished grew by 200,000, but between 2016 and 2017, it doubled: 400,000 people. For Berdegué, the numbers are dramatic because “it is not about being closer to the goal of zero hunger (by 2030). The objective is not a few less hungry people ”, who stressed that this is a food producing and exporting region, where“ there is no shortage of food, what is lacking is money to buy it ”. He added that serious food insecurity affects 47.1 million Latin Americans and Caribbean people and “the worst thing is that most of them live in South America, the richest part of the region. How is it possible that 62 percent of the hunger problem is in South America? He wondered. The document establishes a close link between economic and social inequality and higher levels of hunger, obesity and malnutrition in populations. Five million children suffer from hunger "and the serious problem is that they belong to the poorest quintiles and live a sentence of a very limited life," said Berdegué. He specified that the four UN agencies (United Nations Organization) established a correlation between hunger and belonging to some ethnic groups. "In Peru, 25 percent of Quechua children and 23 percent of Aymara children suffer from chronic malnutrition, while at the national level it is 16 percent," he exemplified. At the same time, each year there are 3.6 million obese people and today one in four adults in the region is obese. Some 250 million live overweight, 60 percent of the regional population. Overweight affects 3.9 million children under the age of five, a figure that exceeds the world average of 5.6 percent, the report indicates. “It is a runaway epidemic and out of control. We have never eaten so bad. It is necessary to change the axis towards a healthy and nutritious diet ”, underlined Berdegué. He added that 18 countries in the region produce fruits and vegetables, but export them. “It is essential to regulate fats and salts in food. There are many people who cannot afford to eat healthy. School curricula must include healthy and healthy eating, ”Berdegué listed when proposing possible solutions to face the epidemic. Carissa F. Etienne, PAHO Director, asserted that "although malnutrition persists in the region, particularly in vulnerable populations, obesity and overweight are also added, affecting these groups in a particular way." "A multisectoral approach is necessary, ranging from ensuring access to balanced and healthy food to addressing other social factors that also impact on these forms of malnutrition, such as access to education, water and sanitation and health services", it indicated in a connection from its headquarters in Washington. In his opinion, "we must advance in access to universal health so that all people can receive the care and prevention measures they need due to issues of malnutrition and its long-term consequences." The Panorama summarizes that hunger, malnutrition, micronutrient deficiencies, overweight and obesity affect people with lower incomes, women, indigenous people, Afro-descendants and rural families in the region the most. In Latin America 8.4 percent of women are severely food insecure, compared to 6.9 percent of men, and indigenous populations are more food insecure than non-indigenous populations. In 10 of their countries, 20 percent of the poorest children suffer three times more from chronic malnutrition than the richest 20 percent. According to the Panorama, one of the main causes of the rise in malnutrition in particularly vulnerable population groups is the changes that the region's food systems have undergone and the cycle of food from production to consumption. The greatest effects are produced in the most excluded sectors that, although they have increased their consumption of healthy foods such as milk and meat, many times must opt ​​for products with a high content of fat, sugar and salt, because they have lower cost. Regarding the gender division, the Panorama indicates that 19 million women are severely food insecure, compared to 15 million men. In all countries, the obesity rate of adult women is higher than that of men; in 19 of them, the female obesity rate is at least 10 percentage points higher than that of men. “Gender equity is a valuable policy instrument to reduce inequalities. We need to strengthen it in practice, which involves promoting equality in access to and control of household resources, as well as in decisions to empower women in inequality, ”said Miguel Barreto, WFP regional director, from Panama City . Video: Dr. Joel Fuhrman and I chat about obesity, drug use. diet connection and more! #EatToLive (October 2020).

With the aim of reducing pollution and taking a step towards decarbonizing the economy, a pilot plan for electric buses will be launched in Costa Rica in 2019 in the capital San José. According to official figures, the transport sector is responsible for 61 percent of hydrocarbon consumption in Costa Rica, a small country of 4.7 million inhabitants in which almost 1.7 million vehicles circulate on the roads. The initiative will be possible thanks to the agreement signed this Wednesday by the Government with the German Cooperation for Development (GIZ), the Costa Rica-United States Foundation for Cooperation (CRUSA), the United Nations Environment Program, as well such as Costa Rican NGOs, state institutions, bus companies and banks. Initially, with a donation from the German Government through GIZ and the CRUSA foundation, three buses and charging stations will be put into operation. The pilot plan, which will cost USD 2.5 million, will evaluate the performance of the new electric buses on the streets of the city with the idea of ​​expanding this environment-friendly transport in the future. "For Costa Rica, it is essential to generate a change in transportation to achieve our commitment to the Paris Agreement, and the paradigm shift towards decarbonizing the global economy," said the Minister of Environment and Energy, Carlos Rodríguez, at an official event. . By 2030, if Costa Rica manages to change 25% of its bus fleet for these new hydrogen vehicles, it would be avoiding the emission of 389 tons of CO2, which translates into savings of $ 316 million in conventional fuels. Video: New Flyer Buses Go Electric. MotorWeek (October 2020). Coca-Cola and Water. The scandalous lies (Part 2) Over 140 pilot whales die in 'heartbreaking' chain in New Zealand

As most of you know, French onion soup is generally made with meat broth. For that reason, I haven't had one since before I was 10! My husband will have to be my taster for this recipe (I haven't made it yet). I thought I would experiment with making one version of this recipe and another using “McKay’s Imitation Meat Broth & Seasoning” instead of beef broth. Of course, vegetable broth could be used as a substitute. If anyone tries this, let me know the result, okay? Serving size: 6 Sprig of aromatic herbs: 3 bay leaves 12 peppercorns 10 to 12 sprigs of parsley 1 sprig of fresh thyme or 1 teaspoon dried 2 cloves or 3 garlic (whole) Soup: 4 to 6 onions, thinly sliced 2 teaspoons of olive oil pinch of salt 6 cups of water or vegetable broth Salt, soy sauce or light miso (1) to taste. Sliced ​​Chives Or Chopped Parsley - For Garnish 4 slices to 6 slices French bread - toasted (1) What is Japanese miso? Miso (from the Japanese miso, ‘source of flavor’) is a seasoning consisting of a flavoring paste, made with soybeans and / or cereals and sea salt fermented with the koji mushroom. Make a garlic sprig by placing bay leaves, peppercorns, parsley, thyme, and garlic in the center of a 12 ″ square of cheesecloth, and tying the ends of the fabric together. In a heavy pot, sauté the onions in oil over medium-low heat. Add salt to prevent sticking, and stir frequently. Cover the pot with a lid, but leave it slightly ajar. The onions should be sautéed for 30 minutes to 1 hour. They will shrink to about a third of their original volume and turn sweet and golden. Add water or heat together with the bouquet garni. Cook over low heat for at least 30 minutes. Remove the bouquet from garni. Season the soup with additional salt, soy sauce, or miso if desired. Place in bowls and top with French bread. Garnish with chives or parsley. Serve hot. NOTES: Adding light miso will give this soup extra flavor. Scoop into a cup, add some hot soup, stir to dissolve, and pour the miso broth mixture into the broth. Add more if you want. Video: I Had To Make French Onion Soup.. Better (October 2020).

So much to re-learn as mammals! Look at this gorilla on pure instinct. Calaya is a 15 year old new mom. Her caregivers say the delivery was very emotional and as a mother she is doing an incredible job breastfeeding her calf. The images are touching watching you cradle your new baby. According to the national zoo, the western lowland gorilla is critically endangered due to disease and poaching. There are less than 200,000 in the jungle. And the population of the western lowland gorilla has declined 60% in the past 25 years, according to the World Wildlife Foundation. Video: Baby Gorilla and Dad Bond Behind the Scenes (October 2020).

Comet 21 P Giacobini is approaching Earth and will give us a beautiful shower of stars A periodic comet is approaching Earth and some space photographers are sharing some of their images through the Space Weather Gallery. It is Comet 21P / Guacobini-Zinner, responsible for the Draconid meteor shower. Its closest approach to our planet will be on September 10 at a 39% distance between the Earth and the Sun, that is, 0.39 AU, or 58 million kilometers. "On the scale of things in the Solar System, the comet will be close to Earth, but not close enough to fear," commented the Space Weather team when releasing the image yesterday. The comet takes 6.6 years to orbit the Sun through Earth's orbit. Its last approach to Earth was in February 2012. “Every time the Giacobini Zinner returns to the interior of the Solar System, its nucleus delivers ice and rocks into space. These debris form the annual meteor shower known as Draconids, which take place every year in October ”, reveals NASA. The passing of the comet sometimes means a record fall of Draconid shooting stars. This happened in 1933 in Europe, when about 500 meteors were observed per minute, and in 1946 in the United States, when between 50 to 100 were seen per minute. At other times this meteor shower is limited to even about 5 meteors per hour. The information gathered in the past suggests that it offers surprises. The Draconid meteor shower - sometimes called Giacobinids - this year will be seen between October 7 and 8, and its shooting stars will burst from the northern end of the constellation Draco (The Dragon), therefore in the Northern Hemisphere it is favorable for view from more temperate latitudes, looking over the northern horizon. Constellation of the Dragon observed in October on the northern horizon. Draconid meteors seem to sprout from there. (EarthSky) The comet was discovered by Michel Giacobini on December 20, 1900 at a Nice Observatory in France, and later confirmed by Ernst Zinner in 2013, hence its name. Comet 21P / Guacobini-Zinner and Perseus Clusters, August 16, 2018 (Michael Jager -Speace Weather Gallery) If the Earth passes through more of the comet debris, "be careful that the Dragon wakes up." “In 2018, most meteors will probably fall in the afternoon of October 7 or 8. Start observing first thing in the evening after dark, ”noted Earth Sky. Fortunately the New Moon is on October 9, which guarantees a dark sky. Video: 21PGiacobini-Zinner comet - (October 2020). Climate change, Global warming. Here are the answers to all your questions Sow agribusiness, harvest flood. They are not natural catastrophes Climate change, Global warming. Here are the answers to all your questions Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, and his revolution of the tunnels for cars

You can enjoy a delicious chili, without the addition of meat, go ahead and try it 1 chopped onion 4 garlic cloves, minced 1 tablespoon (15 ml) vegetable oil 1 can (540 ml) canned bean mix, rinsed 1 can (796 ml) diced tomatoes, with juices 1 cup (250 ml) frozen corn 1 lime, juiced 2 tablespoons (30 ml) chili powder 1 jalapeño pepper, seeded and diced (optional) 2 tsp (10 ml) paprika powder 1 tsp (5 ml) salt 2 cups (500 ml) tomato juice 1 ½ cup (375 ml) textured vegetable protein Chopped 4-piece green onion Recipe 1. In a large pot, sauté the onions and garlic in vegetable oil until translucent. 2. Add beans, tomatoes, corn, lime juice, chili powder, jalapeño, bell pepper, salt, and tomato juice. Mix well. 3. Cover the pot and bring to a boil. Stir and reduce heat to simmer. 5. Add the textured vegetable protein and cook for an additional 3-5 minutes. Season to taste. An additional ½ cup (125 ml) of water can be added if the chili is too thick. Video: Worlds GREATEST Chili Recipe - SO EASY!! (October 2020). Hunger and sticks. Repression of land workers Ecocapsula is a self-sufficient mobile egg in which you will want to live

How to make a potato last 20 years, the secret of the Andes ... Over time, Andean farmers have developed crops resistant to frost and drought, the same ones that can be planted at altitudes greater than 3,800 meters above sea level. Among these species is the group of bitter potatoes (S.judepczukii and S. curtilobum), which belong to the great family of native potatoes. How to make a potato last 20 years, the secret of the Andes ... Over time, Andean farmers have developed crops resistant to frost and drought, the same ones that can be planted at altitudes greater than 3,800 meters above sea level. Among these species is the group of bitter potatoes (S.judepczukii and S. curtilobum), which belong to the great family of native potatoes. AJ + shares a video about the drama of the Nukak Makú people after being contacted by evangelical missionaries from the US What followed was devastating.The Nukak Makú, the last nomadic indigenous people contacted in Colombia, hunter, gatherer and fisherman who inhabited the Guaviare jungles in the south of the country, faces the most critical and fragile point in its history.

A power nap is definitely not a three-hour nap to cut the time between lunch and dinner. Nor is it necessarily an hour long. By power nap, I mean a short session at noon of 20 to 30 minutes. I know it doesn't seem like much at first glance, but trust me, after reading about the benefits of power naps below, you will become a believer. Top 7 Benefits of Power Naps 1. Increase productivity and alertness A short nap of around 30 minutes has been shown to improve alertness, productivity and even reaction times in all types of activities. Naps are so good for the brain and body, in fact, that even NASA has taken notice. One study followed pilots who were allowed to nap for 25 minutes each day, finding that only this small amount of time resulted in better performance and alertness (1). Another study found that planned naps in the workplace improved alertness and performance of emergency department doctors and nurses. The researchers followed 49 doctors and nurses who worked three consecutive night shifts in their department, and ordered them to nap for 40 minutes at 3 a.m. Most of the participants slept for 25 minutes (there is that magic nap number) and then had motor tests done at 7:30 a.m. The researchers found that the group that napped had fewer performance lapses, less fatigue, less drowsiness, and were able to insert IVs more quickly (2). It seems like everyone should take a 20-30 minute nap at work, but especially first responders, pilots, and other professionals who have their lives in their hands. 2. Improves memory and learning. Power naps have also been studied extensively for their ability to improve memory and learning ability. Researchers have found that, regardless of your age, power naps of as little as 6-10 minutes can increase alertness, promote wakefulness, and improve learning ability. On the other hand, napping for more than 30 minutes has been associated with an increase in mortality. So take that for what it's worth and set a timer (3). In the meantime, if creativity is what you're after, napping may be your right brain's best friend. A study conducted at the Georgetown University Center for Functional and Molecular Imaging found that while we are resting, the right hemisphere (which is involved in creative tasks) is actually very busy chatting about itself. Researchers theorize this could be the reason for the nap's ability to enhance creativity and learning, but so far this is just speculation. 3. Improves heart health If there was a way to lower your blood pressure and become less dependent on your heart prescriptions, would you do it? Turns out, you could just take daily naps. Research by cardiologist Dr. Manolis Kallistrato found that noon sleepers experienced a drop in blood pressure and less damage from high blood pressure to their arteries and heart (4). Interestingly, another study also found that just the expectation of having an afternoon nap lowered blood pressure (5). 4. Prevents cell damage We often don't take into account the type of damage that occurs when we are sleep deprived. Not only do we lose focus and become agitated, our body is affected down to the cellular level as well. Researchers have found that lack of sleep actually damages cells, and is particularly harsh on cells in the liver, lungs, and small intestine. Of course, this type of cell damage causes an increased risk of developing diseases. Fortunately, the researchers found that recovering sleep after sleep deprivation heals the damage (6). 5. Increases testosterone The following is something of a reverse finding, with researchers finding that lack of sleep results in a marked reduction in testosterone and growth hormone. On the other hand, testosterone levels are constantly increasing in correlation with the amount of sleep you get. Look at this study, which found that men who slept for four hours had about 60 percent less serum testosterone than men who slept for eight hours (7). This is also a very important point if you are looking to burn fat and build muscle, as testosterone plays a giant role in both circumstances. 6. Relieves stress and boosts the immune system In addition to being able to lower blood pressure, as we've learned earlier, naps have also been shown to lower markers of stress and boost the immune system. According to a study by the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, naps can reverse the hormonal impact of a bad night's sleep. This includes restoring neuroendocrine and immune health biomarkers to normal levels in as little as 30 minutes (8). One reason this may be happening is due to norepinephrine levels. Norepinephrine is a hormone and neurotransmitter that plays a role in our "fight or flight" response, and is highest in stressful situations. In the study, norepinephrine increased 2.5 times in participants who had slept little. The participants who had napped, however, showed no change in their norepinephrine levels, even with limited sleep. 7. Elevate your mood But now, science is backing up this feel-good effect of naps, showing that regular naps improve mental and cognitive health. In the elderly, naps can also reduce frustration and confusion, as naps have the power to increase coordination and reaction time in adults (9). Why the nap is so beneficial Interestingly, the benefits we see associated with naps may lie in the fact that researchers don't yet know exactly what the optimal sleep pattern is for humans. Take, for example, the fact that 85 percent of mammals (like us) are actually polyphasic sleepers, which means they sleep for short periods throughout the day. Humans, of course, divide our days, sleep at night, and stay awake all day. Considering the beneficial effects that we are now seeing in naps, the question arises as to whether we are really cut out for a mid-afternoon nap. In any case, it appears that the benefits of naps come from making up for lost sleep, allowing the brain and body a few more moments of precious downtime to regulate hormones and improve cognitive function. How to take a nap Ideally, you should aim for a 20 to 30 minute nap (take about 40 minutes total because it will be some time before you fall asleep) between 1 p.m. and 4 p.m. If you nap no later than 4 p.m., you could be setting yourself up for an interrupted night's sleep. How to take a perfect nap Also, napping for more than 30 minutes can lead to something researchers call "sleep inertia." You've probably felt it before, an extreme groggy sensation that's almost impossible to shake, even with coffee. Find a cool, quiet, dark place to sleep so you don't waste time trying to fall asleep to noise and light. Set a timer if necessary. Relax, let go of any guilt you may feel for taking a nap, and enjoy. The future of naps Fortunately, modern companies are beginning to see the positive effects that power naps have on their employees, and are adjusting accordingly. For example, MetroNaps, a company that provides "sleep at work solutions," has been hired by high-profile companies like Google, and even the Savannah College of Art and Design, to install specially designed sleeping pods for employees. Nap for your health As you can see, calculating 20-30 minutes for a daily nap can be one of the best things you can do. Increases productivity, alertness, mood, and overall health, especially if you feel sleep deprived. Video: Dr. Oz on Why You Should Take a Power Nap (October 2020).

Researchers determined that within 20 years, the soy monoculture in the Semi-arid Chaco would release into the atmosphere an amount of carbon dioxide equivalent to 76% of the emissions from the combustion of the Argentine automotive tram system. The forests of the Semi-arid Chaco, in the north of Argentina, suffer an annual deforestation rate three times higher than the world average. This happens as a consequence of the agricultural and livestock expansion in the region, a process that accelerated during the last two decades. These changes in land use, which have soy as the predominant crop, have negative consequences for the sustainability of agroecosystems. One of them is the emission of gases that contribute to climate change. Therefore, a study revealed that the intensification of these practices over the next 20 years would release into the atmosphere an amount of carbon dioxide equivalent to 76% of the emissions from the combustion of the transportation system in Argentina. During the period 1976-2015, almost 11.5 million hectares of the Argentine Chaco forest were lost, which were replaced with pastures and agricultural crops. “The management carried out in the area causes a loss of soil carbon that is essential for its fertility and other ecosystem services. Furthermore, when the original forest cover is replaced, a large amount of carbon stored in the above-ground and underground biomass is released. This release of carbon in the form of carbon dioxide - or CO2- it intensifies global warming, since it is a greenhouse gas ”, pointed out Pablo Baldassini, professor in the Department of Quantitative Methods and Information Systems at the Faculty of Agronomy of the UBA. "Soy cultivation occupies between 50 and 60% of the area sown in the region, and compared to the cultivation of corn or corn-wheat, it is the one that most imbalances the inputs and outputs of soil carbon. On the livestock activity side, we also observe that it has a negative impact on the carbon balance of soils, since high animal loads are used; that is, a large number of animals per hectare ”, he highlighted. In his research, Baldassini projected the impact of the continuity of these transformation processes on carbon. “By means of a 20-year simulation we observe that if the deforestation rate of the 2009-2015 period continues, the carbon output of the system in the form of CO2 towards the atmosphere will represent values ​​equivalent to 44% of the average emissions from 2000 to 2010 from the combustion of transportation in Argentina. This value can rise to 76% in case the deforestation rate doubles ”. These emissions would represent between 15% and 26% of those estimated for the entire Argentine Chaco in more than 100 years, between 1900 and 2005 ”. What about soil carbon? “The carbon stored in the soil is a key component of ecosystems, since it intervenes in the provision of different services such as carbon sequestration, climate regulation, erosion control and the maintenance of physical, biological and chemical properties of the floor. For this reason, it is essential that there is a positive balance between carbon inputs and outputs in the ecosystem ”, explained the researcher. However, Baldassini pointed out that agricultural and livestock practices that increased its area reduced the carbon gain compared to the original forest. Along the same lines, he stated that, although the wheat-corn rotations or only corn showed similar carbon gains to those of the forest, they also determined a negative balance, since 45% of what it produces is harvested. “These lower carbon gains reduce soil organic carbon. We do not observe current agricultural management practices that allow maintaining their levels ”. “If we want to reverse this situation, rotations and fertilizations should be better planned, in the case of crops. On the pasture side, it is possible to maintain and even increase the carbon of the system with a low or moderate load ”, indicated the teacher. Video: Why renewables cant save the planet. Michael Shellenberger. TEDxDanubia (October 2020).

Has there been in the history of our humanity someone who would have made possible the dream of the human being in obtaining free and free energy? Why today only inventions and technical advances soar in the technology of computer devices, mobile phones and yet we live with an obsolete, old, polluting energy without visible advances in favor of the human being? Why effective, novel and almost free inventions are their patents quickly bought and stored in the drawers of oblivion? Questions that have an answer and a dark reality that today persists like a great black hand that extends even to the deepest roots of a society that is silent and aware. Nikola Tesla was born on July 10, 1856 in a small town called Smillan (Croatia). His father was an Orthodox priest. He studied in Gratz and Vienna and finished his education in Paris. The Serbo-American physicist worked from 1884 as an assistant to Thomas Edison. Later he created his own laboratory in New York. By 1891, he had already invented a number of highly useful devices. Tesla at a press conference announced a cosmic ray engine. When asked if it was more powerful than the Crooke radiometer, he replied, “ thousands of times more powerful”. In 1891 he patented what might one day become his most famous invention: the basis for the wireless transmission of electrical current, known as the Tesla Transformer Coil. Nikola valued that his inventions helped humanity above any prize or recognition, even financial; what at that time and much less today, no scientist or inventor would be willing to offer to society. And this and not another, was his mistake. His heart was as big as his intelligence and his inventions, many of them were forgotten by the poverty in which he lived his last stage in life. Tesla was fascinated by radiant energy and its ability to become free energy. He knew that it was possible to take energy directly by "connecting to the true force of nature." The Earth ship needed a modern flight plan. Tesla wanted to help the less privileged nations. I knew, and nothing has changed, that thousands of people die of hunger every day, many of them children. "Already before many generations disappear, our machines are going to be moved by force from anywhere in the universe! In the whole universe there is energy " Those who run our economy, Nikola thought, in the western world, allow us to enjoy a high standard of living, of pleasure compared to our neighbors south of the imaginary line we call the boundary. Energy drives the economy of nations and Tesla's goal of life was to make electrical energy equally accessible and available to all people anywhere on the planet and that brought him down, he pointed out. He was the direct object of personal attacks, of attempts to tarnish his brilliant career, to isolate him in the most absolute of miseries. However, in the face of adversity, it continued to promote its plan for wireless power transmission. Why has energy not yet been made of equal access for all people and all nations? Why have the highly recommended free energy devices described by Tom Bearden, Jhon Bedini, Bruce Desalma and others never materialized? Nikola was a man full of difficulties, serious and reserved, but also charming. Although he was lonely, he knew how to attract the people around him. Slim and tall, always perfectly dressed, with his aristocratic posture and elegance, he attracted attention. His inventions and theories were thoroughly forgotten. Why? What actually happened? Who wanted his inventions fall into oblivion? For a while Tesla worked with Edison and admired him. But Edison did not respect him, he made him work 18 hours a day, seven days a week solving technical problems that arose. Tesla described how he could improve the effect of Edison's generator, he replied: "I'll give you $ 500 if you can do it." After months of work Nikola succeeded. Edison, without giving him the promised money, said: "Tesla, you don't understand the American sense of humor." Given this, Tesla said goodbye. Edison envied Tesla's big brain and his weapon was humiliation. He then began to work in construction and later created his own laboratory. But the energy monopolists had a lot of power and nobody wanted change. Tesla claimed that it could transmit news and energy without using wires, but the banking magnates (sound familiar?) Had already bought the copper mines to cover much of the country with cable networks for the distribution of energy. Tesla continued to develop free power transmission around the world in the laboratory he built in 1889 in the mountains of Colorado Springs. He created a high-voltage tower to demonstrate the free and wireless transport of energy and when he asked for more money to continue with the investigations, he was denied it with premeditated intention. The so-called "Wardenclyffe" project had to be abandoned due to lack of budget and its tower destroyed. “Dr. Nikola Tesla was considered one of the people best known on Earth. Today it has disappeared from our science books and textbooks. What did you discover, and why did you fall into oblivion? " In 1934 Tesla was interviewed in "The Times" and said: "I hope I live long enough to be able to put a device in this room that starts with the energy of the media moving around." When Nikola passed away, his great inventions of the last ten years were forgotten and he was deliberately made to be remembered for his eccentricity. Two important facts brought the full weight of ignorance down on him: His refusal to send any article to the academic community causing it to oppose all his inventions, however magnificent they were; and their constant concern to obtain free energy, free for everyone, something that logically the lords and masters of economic power were not willing to allow in a world already channeled to be exploited only by them. At his death, the manipulated history tried to erase its mark and exalt men like Edison who was proclaimed the father of energy and who joined the criticism against Tesla without hesitation, despite the fact that without him, Edison would have been nobody. In 1901 Marconi sent his famous radio signal claiming to have invented radio. But it used 17 Tesla patents and the Supreme Court corrected the mistake in 1943 after Tesla's death. Despite this verdict, history has been in charge of erasing this great man who worked for humanity and not for his own benefit or that of a few. He went against the current and they marked him the fate of oblivion. Nikola Tesla believed in his inventions for the benefit of humanity. That is why he did not agree with the industry of that time, which saw his jobs as a great danger to sources of income. The situation has not changed today. The multinationals do not allow the work of Tesla to be known or put into practice. They would commit suicide if the inventions of this great man were made. His achievements include the invention of the radio, the alternating current motor, he fought for the investigation of an electrical standard, the carbon pellet lamp (high frequency light), the electron microscope, a vertical take-off and landing aircraft, the resonance, radar, electric submarine, Tesla coil, Death ray, remote control, X-ray, methods and tools for climate control, wireless video and image transmission, wireless energy transfer, propulsion systems electromagnetic means (they are the need for moving parts), extraction of energy in large quantities from anywhere on Earth, etc. He must have been considered the greatest scientist and the best inventor in history. Tesla died alone, forgotten, abandoned, like all the great sages of human history, in his hotel room at the age of 86. It was found by a cleaning the next day. That same day, in the middle of World War II, the FBI was in charge of requisitioning all his materials, boxes, notebooks, ... creating the Tesla Report and making records in those places where Nikola Tesla could have annotations or references to his inventions. Today, all his work remains under state secret. Why? What are they afraid of? Do they have the secret of free and free energy invented by Tesla and is it not convenient for it to fall into the hands of society because it would break the entire economic scheme that multinationals and economic power have imposed on us? The invisible government, the one that is behind the real, that rigs society and submits it under its whim, has done a phenomenal job with Nikola Tesla, erasing him from history, ensuring that he was branded as eccentric and crazy, leading him to ruin and death in oblivion. This is his story, his legacy, his life, his reality and how he was sunk by wanting to give the world a standard of living that it does not enjoy today. We must lift him out of oblivion, put him on a pedestal and demand that his discoveries stop being hijacked and put themselves at the service of world progress. *By Pedro Pozas Terrados, born on July 14, 1958 in Espeluy (Jaén). Naturalist. Primatologist. Executive Director and General Coordinator of the Great Ape Project in Spain. Director of the Libertad Photographic Project. Video: Natural Resources. exhautible and non exhautible resources. renewable and non renewable resources (October 2020). "I've never seen anything like this." The Arctic has the warmest winter on record

Phalaenopsis orchids: cultivation and watering Sustainable development: what it is, examples and the 17 UN goals Bamboo shoots: characteristics and nutritional profile Eight Caribbean countries ban single-use plastic and polystyrene The ban began on January 1 and affects highly polluting products such as plastic and polystyrene that take between 400 and 500 years to degrade, or even disappear. Jamaica, Belize, Bahamas, Barbados, Costa Rica, Grenada, and Trinidad and Tobago they banned the import of single-use plastic and polystyrene boxes, materials derived from petroleum refining. Mont Blanc, still collapsing on the Planpincieux glacier A block of the Planpincieux glacier, on the Grandes Jorasses, along the Italian side of the Mont Blanc massif continues to melt at an impressive speed. This increases the splits and the risk of an imminent collapse involving a mass of about 250,000 cubic meters. At the moment, however, there is only the displacement of a portion, approximately 27 large. The euphorbia plants come from the genus Euphorbiaceae (eu-four-bi-ay'-see-ee), made up of a rather "unusual" and numerous group of plants. In fact, there are more than 1600 species of Euphorbia plants (euphorbiacee family), and they are found in almost all regions of the world. Not all euphorbias are succulent. Black tourmaline belongs to the group of minerals called tourmalines, belonging to the class of silicates, order of cyclosilicates. Their name derives from the Sinhalese term “turmali”, in the past used to indicate the name of the crystals brought to Europe from Ceylon. Turmali means stone of various colors but we are about to discover the characteristics of black tourmaline, specifically. Orchids at home, care and advice for growing orchids in pots. From repotting to irrigation, from fertilization to exposure. The easiest varieties to grow at home and the care to devote to the plant if the orchid does not bloom.Before you try your hand at buying an orchid plant it is good to know that if you have a house facing north, therefore poorly lit, it is better desist! The name of Wax Flower is none other than that of the wax flower, a rather well-known plant that produces a flower with undoubtedly particular features. Its petals appear to be waxy, or nearly so. Let's get to know its true characteristics, apart from nicknames.Wax Flower: description The plant forms a shrub that does not exceed three meters in height if grown on the ground, otherwise even less. Activist goes to jail for fighting programmed computer obsolescence Pastry, mining, oil, seed, all cats from the same bag

WWF Report: Nearly Half of Natural World Heritage Sites Threatened Almost half of all natural World Heritage sites, including the Great Barrier Reef and the Wadden Sea in Germany, are threatened by industrial activities, warned the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF, formerly "World Wildlife Fund ") on Wednesday. Of the 229 cultural and mixed World Heritage sites, 114 are under threat from oil and gas exploration and extraction, mining, illegal logging, construction, overfishing or unsustainable use of water. Some are threatened by multiple industrial activities. "Despite the obvious benefits of these natural areas, we have still not succeeded in separating economic development from environmental degradation," WWF Director General Marco Lambertini said in the report. Natural World Heritage Sites, including national parks, nature reserves, reefs, coastal areas and forests, are not only environmental treasures for all of humanity, but provide food, water, medicine and tourism income to more of 11 million people By some estimates, all of the world's protected natural areas receive 8 billion visitors a year, generating $ 600 billion in economic activity. Some of these are world heritage sites. “Protecting natural areas and ecosystems is not anti-development. It is in the interests of robust and sustainable development in the long term that benefits people and natural systems, including our social stability, economic prosperity and individual well-being, ”said Lambertini. Some World Heritage sites also play an important role in larger ecosystems, absorbing the greenhouse gases that are causing climate change and protecting fish and wildlife. "Healthy and natural World Heritage sites contribute to poverty reduction, help alleviate food insecurity, combat climate change and restore and promote the sustainable use of ecosystems," said Lambertini. Among the sites under threat is the Great Barrier Reef, which has experienced coral bleaching and is threatened by the development of the giant Carmichael coal mine. The second largest reef system in the world in Belize is also under threat, as are the Galapagos Islands and Peru's iconic Machu Pichu. The Grand Canyon of the United States is threatened by dams and excessive use of water. The only tidal zones in the Wadden Sea shared by Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark are also threatened by oil and gas concessions and shipping, WWF said. The primary beech forests of the Carpathians and the former beech forests of Germany, a transnational site that includes five German forests in the Baltic Sea, are also threatened by oil and gas concessions, WWF said. The WWF urged governments to meet their commitments and cancel projects that threaten World Heritage sites. He also called on companies to stop industrial activities in protected areas, and is asking financial institutions not to finance them. Video: Pollution threatens Australias Great Barrier Reef (October 2021). Bull Terrier Miniature: breeding and price Microalgae flour, a new very nutritious food Indoor pollution: improving the air quality in the home

Climate change is changing our wind patterns, which is strengthening the waves that travel across the earth's surface. As climate change has gradually warmed the oceans around the world, it has also been making ocean waves stronger and more deadly, according to a new study published in Nature Monday. The upper ocean waves are driven by local wind patterns, which are driven by temperature differences between different layers of the air. So as we pump greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and heat the air, we are also strengthening certain wind patterns and weakening others. The net effect is that our oceans are stronger winds and make stronger waves. "We show that global wave power, which is the transport of energy transferred from the wind to the motion of the sea surface, has increased globally," the authors wrote. For people who work in industries that depend on shipping, such as fishing and global freight, this means their already dangerous jobs will become even more dangerous over time. Specifically, commercial fishing has a mortality rate 32 times greater than the general U.S. working population, and 18 percent of these deaths can be attributed to waves. The study found that waves, on average, have strengthened 0.41 percent each year from 1948 to 2008, measured in kilowatts per meter. This may not sound like a lot, but consider this an average. The waves in the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica, have strengthened by about 2 percent each year. It's already incredibly dangerous to travel to Antarctica by sea: heavy-duty icebreakers are required in areas with more sea ice, and an ultra-luxury tourism trend of cruising to the frozen continent has been growing steadily almost every year. It is often easier and safer to travel to Antarctica by plane, and we will probably have to rely on that method even more in the future. But that requires building more expensive and destructive tracks in the frozen landscape. (China plans to build a nearly one-kilometer airstrip for the researchers.) 2017 was the warmest year on record for global oceans, largely because the oceans absorb 90 percent of the additional heat in the atmosphere generated by humans due to our release of greenhouse gases. The oceans also warm more slowly than other global areas, such as forests, deserts, or even the air. This means that, in general and over time, the oceans have a greater ability to warm up and stay warm for a long time. The ways we are altering our oceans will persist for years. It is worth noting that we are also affecting the ocean in places that we cannot see. The Atlantic Dump Circulation (AMOC) is a global circulation process that sends cold water to the surface and warm water to the deep sea around the world, which helps regulate salt levels around the world. Since climate change is heating ocean water everywhere, this process has weakened, putting all salinity-specialized ocean creatures at risk. The consequences of climate change go far beyond making our world a little warmer each year. As we emit greenhouse gases, we initiate environmental feedback processes to which the ocean is particularly vulnerable. Video: Did scientists get climate change wrong? (October 2020). Argentina: Vaca Muerta, business for few, problems for many Ecological, natural or artificial Christmas tree?

All Australia and kangaroo lovers are in mourning to meet the death of Roger, a giant kangaroo of 89 kilos and 1.82 meters known worldwide as 'the bodybuilding kangaroo'. Roger's caregiver reported that the 12-year-old kangaroo died of natural causes in the shade of his favorite tree at the Alice Springs Kangaroo Sanctuary:"He had a long and beautiful life." The kangaroo lived in captivity due to leg problems and rose to fame after demonstrating his great strength and bodybuilding appearance, which he maintained until the end of his days despite having vision problems and arthritis caused by his age. His life passed quietly in the sanctuary, his caregivers fed him a super energy breakfast that consisted of eight eggs, 200g of oatmeal and an assortment of fruits. After breakfast I would do an exercise routine. At noon his diet included 400 grams of meat and another 400 grams of sweet potatoes, all accompanied by some spinach leaves. After lunch, Roger used to take a short nap under a tree to digest and rest what he had consumed in the early hours of the day. His story Roger's mother was run over in 2006 and his luck changed when he was given a place at the Kangaroo Sanctuary in northern Australia, where he became one of the main tourist attractions thanks to his muscularity. A documentary brought him to fame He rose to fame in 2013 when he starred in a documentary and in 2015 some photos went viral where he showed his incredible strength by bending a metal cube with great ease as seen in the following photo. Roger had more than 1.3 million followers on his social media Goodbye, our dear Roger. Sadly, he has passed away of old age. He had a long life and was loved by millions of people around the world. We will always love you and miss you »the founder of the reserve where Roger lived noted on Facebook. "Rest in peace Roger, you have left a legacy and taught the world the joy of kangaroos"said one Twitter user, while another thanked her for having"Woke up many people around the world about how beautiful and special kangaroos are". In his last photo, shared on social networks, he looks relaxed and relaxed. His remains were buried in the same sanctuary. Video: When Tiger Snakes Attack (October 2020).

"Seeds in resistance" a cartoon for the Food Sovereignty of the Peoples We present the cartoon "Seeds in Resistance" made from the animation that made up the Documentary "Seeds, common good or corporate property" made in 2017 by a group of Latin American organizations that work throughout the continent in defense of native and creole seeds as the basis of the Food Sovereignty of the Peoples. In this way, we continue to honor the millions of peasants who continue to defend seeds from their territories and especially those who make up La Via Campesina who, since their Seed Campaign, have inspired the contents of this cartoon and have gifted with the awareness that seeds are "the heart of Food Sovereignty." “Seeds have a special place in the fight for food sovereignty. These little grains are the foundation of the future. They determine, in each life cycle, what type of food people consume, how it is grown and who grows it. But the seeds are also the container that carries the past, the vision, knowledge and accumulated practices of peasant communities around the world that, for thousands of years, have created the basis of everything that sustains us in the present ” . Our seeds, our future !, La Via Campesina. Download the comic here: The Latin American Seed Collective presents the documentary: Seeds, Common good or corporate property? Produced jointly by eight organizations in Latin America and edited by Radio Mundo Real, the documentary "Seeds, common good or corporate property?" collects the experiences and struggles of the movements for the defense of Creole and native seeds in Latin America from Ecuador, Brazil, Costa Rica, Mexico, Honduras, Argentina, Colombia and Guatemala. The protagonists are the Creole, native seeds, ours, in the hands of the peasant communities and indigenous peoples. The documentary addresses the defense of native seeds as an integral part of the defense of territory, life and autonomy as peoples, the relationship between indigenous women and native seeds, seed flows in communities, the history of the origin of the corn, Mayan ceremonies on the importance of seeds, the gratitude and blessing of seeds, seed fairs and exchanges, and local experiences of recovery and handling of Creole seeds. Also present are the struggles against seed laws and against UPOV 91, against the imposition of transgenic seeds, the denouncement of the devastation caused by transgenics and resistance to spraying and the advance of agribusiness. We invite you to watch the documentary and share it to continue defending seeds as the heritage of peoples at the service of humanity on the path of food sovereignty. The Latin American Seed Collective is made up of: the National Association for the Promotion of Ecological Agriculture (ANAFAE) of Honduras, the National Network for the Defense of Food Sovereignty in Guatemala (REDSAG), the Biodiversity Network of Costa Rica , the Semillas Group of Colombia, Ecological Action of Ecuador, National Articulation of Agroecology of Brazil, Action for Biodiversity of Argentina and GRAIN. Animation "Seeds in Resistance" Seeds in Resistance is an animation developed as part of the Documentary "Seeds, common good or corporate property" made in 2017 by a group of Latin American organizations that work throughout the continent in defense of native and creole seeds as a basis of the Food Sovereignty of the Peoples. We now share this animation to provide one more tool for understanding and training on this issue, suggesting that you continue on the path by watching and sharing the full documentary from vimeo.com/240217030. We also want through this video to pay tribute to the millions of peasant women and men who continue to defend seeds from their territories and especially those who make up La Vía Campesina who, from their Seed Campaign, have inspired the contents of this animation and has given us the awareness that seeds are "The heart of Food Sovereignty." The Latin American Seed Collective The Latin American Seed Collective is made up of: the National Association for the Promotion of Ecological Agriculture (ANAFAE) of Honduras, the National Network for the Defense of Food Sovereignty in Guatemala (REDSAG), the Biodiversity Network of Costa Rica , the Semillas Group of Colombia, Ecological Action of Ecuador, National Articulation of Agroecology of Brazil, Action for Biodiversity of Argentina and GRAIN. Video: Community-managed seed banks strengthen food security and food sovereignty in Haiti (October 2020). How Climate Change will affect the main European cities

What happens when you die? It is the most fundamental question there is, asked at one time or another by every human being who has ever lived. Do we live after death? If so, where? Is there a heaven? What is heaven like? What happens to my body? What happens to my soul? They are the greatest of all the imponderables of life that have been approached, with varying degrees of success, by science, art, and religion. What happens to your body after you die? Medically speaking, death occurs in two stages. The first, clinical death, lasts four to six minutes from the moment a person stops breathing and the heart stops pumping blood. During this stage, the organs remain alive and there may be enough oxygen in the brain that there is no permanent damage. The second stage of dying, biological death, is the process by which the body's organs shut down and cells begin to degenerate. Doctors can often stop this process by cooling the body below its normal temperature, allowing them to revive patients before brain damage occurs. Once biological death has occurred, the muscles begin to relax, including the sphincter, which can cause the intestines to empty. After 12 hours, the skin loses its color and blood pools in the lowest point of the body, causing red and purple bruises. Before this, rigor mortis is established, making the body stiff and rigid. This is caused by the leakage of calcium into muscle cells, which binds to proteins and causes them to contract. Scientists have discovered how our bodies break down after we die Unless the body is embalmed, it will begin to decompose as soon as the blood stops flowing. A process called putrefaction occurs after bacteria in the gastrointestinal tract eat through the abdominal organs, releasing horrible odors that attract insects. The worms deposited by blowflies eat rotten body tissue and can consume 60 percent of the body's tissue in a few weeks. The remaining parts are ingested by plants, insects and animals, which can take a year or more depending on how the body has been buried. There are two stages of death: clinical and biologicalWhat about thoughts after you die? Scientists have done a lot of research on what happens to consciousness after death. In a recent study, doctors found that thoughts continue for up to three minutes after the heart stops beating. But recently, a man who had been declared clinically dead twice said that there was “nothing there” after death. Reddit user r00tdude wrote: “It was just a black void. No thoughts, no conscience, nothing. Is there life after death? What do Christians, Muslims and other religions believe? Without any scientific evidence of an afterlife, many religions offer their own explanation for what happens after death. Christians believe that after dying, spirits are sent to heaven or hell depending on their earthly behavior. Depending on what part of religion you ask for, sinners are sent to hell either for eternity or until they have repented of their actions. Those who have lived their lives according to Christian principles will be sent to heaven. Catholics believe in the idea of ​​purgatory, a place between heaven and hell where sinners go first to repent for their wrongdoings. The Islamic faith teaches that Allah will raise the dead on "The Last Day", a date known only to him. On this day, he will judge all souls and send them to heaven or hell. Muslims believe that until then, the dead remain in their graves, where visions of their fate will be sent to them. According to Buddhists, spirits reincarnate into new bodies until they reach enlightenment. In doing so, they will emerge from the death spiral and arrive at Nirvana, a place "incomprehensible, indescribable, inconceivable and indescribable." Unlike most religions, the concept of an afterlife is not central to Judaism, but rather focuses on actions done in life. There are some mentions of an afterlife in religion, but not one divided into heaven and hell. The Torah speaks of an afterlife called Sheol, a dark place in the center of the Earth, where all souls go without judgment. Video: Dying of Coronavirus: A Familys Painful Goodbye. NYT News (October 2020).

70% of deforestation in this country is concentrated in the Amazon and, since the departure of the FARC, this has increased by 44%. A journalistic team traveled to some regions and documented how illegal mining and forest fires for the sale of land is accelerating the destruction of Colombian forests. #MaderaSucia is a transnational journalistic investigation coordinated by OjoPúblico and Mongabay Latam in alliance with El Espectador, Semana, Connectas, El Deber, Vistazo Magazine and InfoAmazonía in whose first installment 11 investigative journalists from the region participated. Every three months Colombia receives bad news about its forests. In bulletins of two or three pages the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (Ideam) warns what has already become commonplace: the country is destroying its forests. The red dots that indicate the main sources of deforestation vary in these documents. Sometimes they are located in the southwest or north, close to Venezuela. Sometimes, they move to the foothills of the Andean mountain range or to a municipality in the Pacific. But they are always in the Amazon. It is as if an epidemic had spread, devastating thousands of hectares of forests and it was impossible to contain it. Only in 2016, 178,597 hectares disappeared. It is like collapsing just over half the city of Lima at once or destroying the whole of Bogotá in one year. The evil of the Pacific To get to Río Quito, in the center of the department of Chocó, one of the Colombian regions most affected by illegal gold mining, you have to take a boat on a dirty and unmade beach in Quibdó, the capital. The $ 20 we pay after crossing a street with damp dirt and wooden houses guarantees us a place in a motorized boat. 15 people are accommodated on the cracked boards that serve as chairs. Sometimes 20. Some manage to take refuge completely under the canvas; others must endure the scorching Pacific sun as the boat pulls away from Quibdó. We sail slowly against the current of the Atrato, the mightiest river in Colombia. The journey takes about an hour and is the best example that Freddy Palacios, a community leader, can find to explain why, since 2017, his municipality began to appear frequently in the Ideam deforestation bulletins. A decade ago, he says, to make that same trip it took about three hours and there was no choice but to be patient while the boat was leaving passengers in hamlets of dusty streets. Since then, things began to change when the rumor of the existence of gold reached the ears of Brazilian, Peruvian and Venezuelan miners. As metal prices surpassed historical limits in the international market, backhoes were entering the jungle of Río Quito. Little by little, with the protection of paramilitary groups, they began to bite her and remove the banks of the rivers. There is no precise calculation of the impact, but the channel today is deformed. Multiple paths have been opened to navigate, in which even the most skilled boatman can get lost. In his motorboat Freddy takes us between countless sand mounds and extensive mudflats. It is not easy to get around them. We get lost more than once and run aground on several occasions. He has no alternative but to get off and push the boat in the water up to his waist. A 28-year-old, broad-backed and black-skinned, he cares little about what scientists have warned the more than eight thousand inhabitants of Río Quito: the water is full of mercury and is best avoided. "How are we going to do it?" He asks, laughing. "We have always lived off the river." Although the cravings for gold arrived several centuries ago in Chocoano territory, the dredges that arrived at the beginning of the 21st accelerated the destruction of forests at a dizzying rate. While in 2001 the hectares devastated by mining reached 637 in Chocó, in 2014 that number had grown alarmingly: 24,450 hectares. Two years later, the destruction of 40 thousand hectares (of the 8 million hectares of humid forests that they have) revealed that the problem was getting out of hand. If you had come twenty or thirty years earlier - tells us a resident of Río Quito who prefers to remain anonymous - you would have found a river with fruit trees side by side. Oranges, bananas, borojó, chontaduro. There was everything. We weren't rich, but we had something to eat. Sometimes we would put a bunch of bananas or whatever in the canoe and in any hamlet we would exchange it for other fruits or fish. But that is over for a long time ”. Before it was over, the men of Río Quito also used to go into the jungle for a week or two to extract wood with axes and machetes and then sell it in Quibdó. “It was a way of subsistence, but now the backhoes cut down the trees with machinery so that the Brazilians build the dredges. With these devices they remove all the water and the earth in search of gold ”, says Freddy while pointing to a dredge corroded by time. It is a construction of planks and iron rods on the Quito River that is the height of a three-story building. Some fifteen or twenty people usually work there day and night. They don't rest until the tubes suck in tons of sludge that the mercury then helps them convert into grams of gold. The scenario of this municipality, which, according to the last census, is the place with the highest percentage of unsatisfied basic needs (98%), is repeated in various parts of Colombia. The list is long but the bleak images of southern Bolívar, northern Cauca, and eastern Antioquia also show how the obsession with gold and the lack of state regulation (according to the Government, about 80% of the mineral extraction is does illegally) have wiped out thousands of hectares of forest. In all there are mud craters and workers looking for golden nuggets. Most of those who oppose have sometimes received threats from paramilitary groups that arrive in the form of leaflets under the doors of houses or with calls or text messages. The inhabitants of Río Quito received the last threat in mid-February 2018. It was signed by a group of dissidents from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). "We invite you to be part of this proletarian and peasant army that allows us to defend ourselves from the criminal and bloodthirsty regime," they warned in a brochure. Although its presence has not been as notable as that of paramilitary groups or criminal gangs, gold has also represented a mechanism to increase the income of these guerrilla groups. In addition, having control of the territory has always been a key issue for any armed actor: the proximity of that area to the Pacific Ocean has made it a privileged corridor for cocaine trafficking. The point of no return Thomas Lovejoy is one of the most authoritative people to speak about the Amazon. Since 1965 he began to study that jungle in Brazil as a biologist, his voice and his studies, which showed how this ecosystem was being fragmented, now take on more force. Today, after having been an advisor on biodiversity issues at the Smithsonian, the UN and the World Bank, he is a professor at George Manson University in the United States. "The godfather of biodiversity", some call him. At the end of February 2018 Lovejoy published a short article in the magazineScience Advances. In it he launched a disturbing alert: the Amazon is approaching a point of no return. Their calculations indicated that, in the last 50 years, this entire region shared by nine countries had lost 17% of its vegetation. If that figure reaches 20%, he warned, that forest will no longer be sustainable. The first consequences, related to the hydrological cycle, will be felt by the inhabitants of the Southern Cone. "The will to preserve the Amazon is not reflected in political actions," declared Lovejoy. The text was also signed by Carlos Nobre, another of the researchers who has investigated the most about this ecosystem. The two scientists made reference to the fact that, if greater efforts are not made to stop phenomena such as indiscriminate logging, this ecosystem will end up becoming a "vast savanna". Since the peace agreement with the FARC was signed in November 2016, in Colombia there are more and more traces of the loss of these forests. Paradoxically, as the troops left the jungles to begin a process of reintegration into civilian life, the roars of chainsaws and fires multiplied in the Amazon. The figures from the Institute of Hydrology, Meteorology and Environmental Studies (Ideam) are conclusive: 70% of deforestation is concentrated in the Amazon and, since the departure of the militias, it has increased 44%. The municipalities where the most forests are destroyed are also municipalities where the guerrillas took refuge for many decades: San Vicente del Caguán and Cartagena del Chairá, in Caquetá; La Macarena, in Meta; Puerto Guzmán and Puerto Asís, in Putumayo, and San José del Guaviare, in Guaviare. We landed in two of those municipalities that were controlled by the FARC in June 2015, when the beginning of the peace process with the FARC was about to turn three years old. After flying for more than an hour in a fragile five-seat plane, we arrived at “Uribe”. Not far from the urban area was Casa Verde, a historic guerrilla camp in which several attempts at peace had begun in the 1980s, but which the government decided to bomb after multiple setbacks. On that hot June morning, Alirio told us the details of how the bullets and bombings could be heard from his home. He laughed out loud. He was then 60 years old and, like most inhabitants, he had come to that region chasing riches when he was still a teenager. He had all the bonanzas: tiger skins, which in some way amounted to trafficking in species, wood, marijuana, coca and cattle. He was a settler living in the Tinigua National Natural Park. But over time he had learned that he could not continue to be part of a chain that was destroying the jungle. "Today we have clear rules: we no longer allow colonization and it is forbidden to cut down more than 10 hectares per year," he told us. He coolly acknowledged that the FARC had devised a mechanism to protect natural resources. Ever since that guerrilla group had entered the region, it had implemented a rigorous mechanism to prevent overexploitation of the forest. All the peasants had to obey them. Failure to comply with them meant fines and sometimes expulsion from the territory. As we flew from Uribe to La Macarena in another plane that threatened to collapse with each current of air, it was possible to see a dense jungle where peasants like Alirio lived. Any absence of forest, no matter how small, was noticeable in the midst of that vast vegetation. There were more than 3 million 800 thousand hectares in which four National Parks were united: Tinigua, Picachos, Sierra de La Macarena and Sumapaz. An area so large that the whole of Switzerland could fit. The white dots on the forest that we noticed that day have multiplied in the last year. The FARC's departure from those territories motivated new actors to take over the land illegally. Rodrigo Botero, director of the Foundation for Conservation and Sustainable Development (FCDS), confirms this with some stark figures: the so-called “Green Belt”, a strip created to intensify protection, lost 90 thousand hectares between 2017 and 2018. A This rate of forest loss, the 2,500,000 hectares of preservation, will not withstand even three decades. What are the reasons behind this reality? Who are to blame for the environmental disaster? Why is it so difficult to stop it? Botero's satellite records show that in 2017 livestock deforested more than one and a half million hectares of forests. A year earlier, new illegal groups had razed 3,235 hectares to replace them with coca leaf plantations. In that same period, the fires accelerated the destruction of other areas: in the first three months of 2018, 2,900 were reported. Declaring "public calamity" was the only alternative for local leaders to attract the attention of the Government. Although cows and coca appear to be doing a great deal to overcome the limit drawn by Lovejoy and Carlos Nobre, there is another disturbing cause. As the FARC's rifles were withdrawn, a land grab began that no one had predicted. José Yunis Mebarak, director of Vision Amazonía, the initiative that Colombia created to fulfill the promise of reducing deforestation in the region to zero by 2020, summarized what was happening in a text published in the newspaperThe viewerin March 2018: “We are witnessing an arboricide, an animalicide. Ideology left, capital entered. There is a frenzy for cheap land. We are destroying with such impudence, ease and ferocity that we do not even use the wood. We are just burning everything. If you are wealthy, you buy entire trails and have 200 to 500 hectares deforested from a single sawmill. If you are humble, from 1 to 15 hectares (…) El Guaviare is the same size as Costa Rica, 5.5 million hectares. Unlike that country, it is not populated by five million but barely 120,000 people. However, he has already burned and converted 500,000 hectares of forest into pastures where 250,000 cattle graze and his ambition and plan is to continue felling, hopefully another 400,000 or 1 million hectares, to put mainly cows and the occasional crop, perhaps rubber or cocoa ”. The millionaire business of setting fire to the forests It must have been a difficult couple of years for Luis Gilberto Murillo. Since he assumed his position as former Colombian Minister of the Environment in April 2016, one of his main tasks was to fulfill the pact that the country had signed months before at the Paris Climate Change Summit. The country had pledged to achieve a zero deforestation rate in the Amazon and, in return, Germany, the UK and Norway would give it $ 100 million. The goal, Murillo himself said in February 2018, will be impossible to meet. As an alternative, he proposed to extend the term until 2022 or 2025. The announcement was made when much of the Amazon region was on fire. In Guaviare, the same department that worried José Yunis, the fire had devoured about 20 thousand hectares. In La Sierra de La Macarena it ended with another 1,035. For Murillo, unlike what was happening in his native Chocó - where illegal mining was destroying the forests - in the south of the country there were even more powerful forces behind the burning. “To tear down and burn a forest can cost between 333 and 1,000 dollars. A peasant cannot pay that ”, he warned. According to the Amazon Institute for Scientific Studies (SINCHI), in the second week of February 2018 there were already 2,035 fires spreading in the region. The hypotheses to explain why they are setting fire to the forests of southern Colombia are multiple. One of the people who has tried the most to understand these reasons is Dolores Armenteras. Catalan, biologist and geographer, for about 15 years she has focused her work on understanding the reasons behind the burns. In 2013, after crossing a lot of data and analyzing satellite images, he published a study that shed light on what had happened in that region over a decade. Along with Liliana Dávalos, a biologist at Stony Brook University; Jennifer Holmes, an economist at the University of Texas; and Nelly Rodríguez, a forestry engineer, concluded that the multiple fires had been motivated by the acquisition of land. After verifying that the number of cattle had not increased between 2000 and 2009 and that the value of meat had remained constant, the hypothesis that cattle was the main culprit of the destruction of the Amazon collapsed. His most recent research yielded another disturbing conclusion. After comparing satellite data from Venezuela, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Brazil, collected over 12 years, Armenteras observed that there is another factor that affects the spread of fire in the Amazon: the construction of communication routes. Roads, essentially. One fact sums up the role of the authorities in the control of forests: after the publication of a journalistic report on this bleak scenario in 2016, we received a call from the Environmental Crimes Unit of the Prosecutor's Office. An official explained to the author of the report that they had no idea what was happening with the illegal roads and wanted to start gathering clues. The journalist was to be one of his sources. If the destruction does not stop, data from the Foundation for Conservation and Sustainable Development holds that the loss of natural forest by 2020 will grow 200%. The deforestation epidemic will continue its course without anyone being able to contain it. Video: Jungle rail Colombia (October 2020). 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A Toledo court has imposed bail for the alleged poisoning of 50 animals in a preserve in the province. Ecologists in Action, SEO / BirdLife and WWF exercise the popular accusation in this procedure and highlight the importance of the recognition by the courts of the economic value that the irreversible loss of natural heritage implies. The court of 1st Instance and Instruction No. 4 of Torrijos (Toledo) has imposed a bond of 168,000 euros on the three defendants for the repeated use of poison that caused the death of 55 specimens of fauna in the preserve of the Casa Nueva in Gerindote. This bond will have to be deposited by the owner of the preserve and the two guards who at the time the events occurred were in charge of the administration and management of the hunting use of the land. The purpose of the bond is to respond to the possible compensation for the damages caused by the poisonings and the payment of the value of the fauna species that were affected. The judge decrees the holding of the oral trial after six years of instruction. WWF, SEO / BirdLife and Ecologists in Action exercise popular accusation in this process, highlighting that “the imposition of this bond is important in that it recognizes the value of the damage caused by the illegal use of poisoned baits and shows that placing poisoned baits in the natural environment has economic and legal consequences for the authors ”. The presence in court, carried out within the framework of the projectLife + POISON *, has allowed environmental organizations to convey to judicial bodies and society the seriousness of this threat to biodiversity and to support the research work carried out by environmental agents of Castilla-La Mancha and the Seprona of the Civil Guard. The facts Between August and September 2011, at least 55 specimens of poisoned animals were located in the private preserve of Casa Nueva, in the municipality of Gerindote, among which were 23 black kites, five marsh harriers, six red kites and an eagle. Iberian imperial, these last two species cataloged in danger of extinction. Subsequent analyzes of the animals confirmed their death due to the effect of two powerful insecticides that had been used to make the baits. The investigation work of the Poisons Investigation Unit (UNIVE) of the Corps of Environmental Agents of Castilla-La Mancha and the Service for the Protection of Nature (Seprona) of the Civil Guard, made it possible to locate the poisoned animals and determine the imputation of the owner and the two guards as possible authors of the facts. * The Life + VENENO project The report on poison in Spain, by SEO / BirdLife and WWF, reveals alarming data on the impact of poison on fauna. Specifically, the study analyzes the mortality with poisoned baits of 18,503 animals in 8,324 episodes. However, despite these large figures, the organizations warn that these cases are only the tip of the iceberg, since it is estimated that only about 10% of the real cases of poisoning are being located. Therefore, the actual number of poisoned animals between 1990 and 2013 would amount to 185,000, an average of almost 9,000 deaths per year. The highest number of poisoned animals corresponds to the group of raptors, with 34%, followed by domestic mammals (22%), mainly dogs and cats. The group "other birds" represents 11% (with species such as bee-eaters or storks). The next group are terrestrial carnivores, with 9% of the specimens, where the large number of foxes stands out. Pigeons account for 8% of poisonings, corvids for 5%, and wild mammals (with species such as wild boars, rabbits or free) account for almost 3%. This shows that venom is a very non-selective tool, affecting a great variety of species from different faunal groups. 63% of all poisoned animals have been found in Castilla y León, Castilla-La Mancha and Andalusia. WWF and SEO / BirdLife denounce that the use of poisoned baits is the most used method to kill predators worldwide and is mainly associated with hunting and extensive livestock farming. A part of these sectors use this massive, non-selective and illegal method to eliminate animals that they consider harmful to livestock or game species. The placement of poisoned baits is an entrenched practice in our fields, completely ineffective for the objectives it pursues, as well as a massive, non-selective and bloody method for the fauna. For this reason, it is prohibited by national and regional legislation and is classified as a crime in the Penal Code. Poison in the field poses a risk to public health, the environment and domestic animals. The placement of poisoned baits is an entrenched practice in our fields, completely ineffective for the objectives it pursues, as well as a massive, non-selective and bloody method for the fauna. Poison in the field poses a risk to public health, the environment and domestic animals. More information: Miguel Ángel Hernández, spokesperson for Ecologists in Action, 608 823 110 Video: ITA511: Week 5 Wine Import B3 and Assignment (October 2020).

Meatless Monday is an international campaign that encourages people not to eat meat on Mondays to improve their health and the health of the planet. Today, the campaign is active in more than 40 countries. Industrial livestock is the main cause of environmental deterioration. A global transition to vegetarian food is the most efficient solution. To produce a kilo of meat requires 7 kilos of cereal, but if this cereal were destined directly to humans, it could end with famine and malnutrition all over the world. The UN considers that the main solution to environmental problems is the reduction of the livestock population. To achieve this, it is essential for society to move towards a diet free of animal products, or at least reduce its intake. The vegetarian diet is the main ecological solution and has great benefits for human health and respect for animals. The Meatless Monday alternative Thousands of citizens around the world have joined Meatless Mondays since 2003, and currently the public schools of Los Angeles (USA), New York (USA), Sao Paulo (Brazil) and Medellín (Colombia) adhere to the campaign. Also the Casa Rosada (Argentina), public hospitals around the world, and the Ministry of the Environment of Chile. In addition, great personalities such as Paul McCartney, Al Gore, Gwyneth Paltrow and chef Jamie Olivera publicly support this initiative. Meatless Monday is a non-profit campaign that anyone can participate in: just remove all kinds of meat from your plate one day a week, and you'll be making a world of difference! Here you can download an application for your cell phone and you can also register to receive recipes Now you know:If you want to change the world, start with your plate! Video: Paul McCartney Live at Cavern Club with David Gilmour u0026 Ian Paice (October 2020).

Floods are getting worse in the US, and 2,500 chemical sites are in the path of the water Anchored in flood-prone areas in every state in the United States are more than 2,500 sites that handle toxic chemicals, a New York Times analysis of federal floodplain and industrial data shows. About 1,400 are in areas with the highest risk of flooding. As the risk of flooding grows as a result of warming climates, there is a risk of more toxic spills like the one that hit Baytown, Texas, where Hurricane Harvey flooded a chemical plant, releasing bleach. Or like a Florida fertilizer plant that spilled phosphoric acid and an Ohio refinery that released benzene. More than 2,500 sites that handle toxic chemicals are in flood-prone areas across the country. The Houston area is home to more than 100 facilities that handle toxic chemicals and are located in flood zones. Floods across the country are likely to worsen due to climate change, a comprehensive federal government scientific report warned last year. Heavy rains increase in intensity and frequency. At the same time, rising sea levels combined with more frequent and extensive flooding caused by coastal storms such as hurricanes can increase the risk to chemical facilities near waterways. The Times analysis looked at sites included in the Toxic Emissions Inventory, which covers more than 21,600 facilities nationwide that handle large amounts of toxic chemicals that are harmful to health or the environment. Of those sites, more than 1,400 were in locations that the Federal Emergency Management Agency considers to be at high risk of flooding. An additional 1,100 sites were in moderate risk areas. Other industrial complexes lie just outside these defined flood hazard zones, obscuring their vulnerability as flood patterns change and expand. The presence of chemical sites in areas vulnerable to flooding is a holdover from a time where the benefits to industry from proximity to rivers and oceans - for transportation and commerce, or for a cooling water supply - apparently outweigh risks. "Water fronts are changing as a result of rising sea levels," said Jeanne Herb, an environmental policy expert at Rutgers University who has researched the hazards that weather-related floods pose to industries in New Jersey. . "In most cases, these facilities are in the water for a reason," he said. “So how do we make sure there are protections in place? That's the big question ". Federal law does not explicitly require floodplain sites that handle toxic chemicals to take additional precautions against flooding. Nor do most states or local governments have such requirements. President Barack Obama signed an executive order in 2015 requiring planners of federally funded buildings, roads and other infrastructure to account for the impact of potential flooding from rising sea levels or more extreme rainfall. President Trump rescinded those rules last year. The Times analysis focused on the facilities of the federal toxic emissions database, which tracks sites that handle chemicals that could be harmful to health and the environment if released. The list does not include properties such as Superfund sites or sewage facilities, or chemical sites where the predominant hazards are fire or explosion, as opposed to toxic contamination. The Times also examined reports of oil and chemical spills posted by the National Response Center, which is run by the Coast Guard. Companies are required by law to report spills to the N.R.C., although that database has been criticized as incomplete. Still, the data provides insight into the thousands of spills that occur across the country each year. Video: Why Midwest Flooding Is Particularly Bad This Spring. WSJ (October 2020). Delicious recipe for leftover bread. Pain lost 8 out of 10 consumers are not interested if what they buy is sustainable

Studies suggest a relationship between continued exposure to magnetic fields and high rates of leukemia in children. This suspicion is confirmed by the Bonn Guidelines (Wissenschaftsladen Bonn), which has dealt with the problem of radiation for years. The European Environment Agency (EEA), the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) and the initiatives of the Federation of Consumers call for the containment of radiation. Studies suggest a relationship between continued exposure to magnetic fields and high rates of leukemia in children. This suspicion is confirmed by the Bonn Guidelines (Wissenschaftsladen Bonn), which has dealt with the problem of radiation for years. The European Environment Agency (EEA), the Federal Office for Radiation Protection (BfS) and the initiatives of the Federation of Consumers call for the containment of radiation.

With great pedagogical capacity, Alejandra Ciriza takes elements of history, brings them to the present and projects what is to come, convinced of her feminist and Marxist positions, she shares, with an audience composed mainly of young women, all her knowledge and starts applause and reflections. At the end of the training cycle "Capital Strategies and Construction of Alternatives" promoted by BASE-IS for the year 2018. Ciriza addresses feminism as one of the emancipatory alternatives to current capitalism. The philosopher assures that the feminist movement in Latin America has been doing a great job and explains that the explosion of this movement in recent years is related to the accelerated process of decomposition of the current capitalist relations “that more ferociously injure the rights of women, of racialized people. I believe that capitalism overestimates the exploitation and extortion of feminized and racialized people, so the response that feminists give in the field of politics has to do with that, ”says Alejandra. When delving into her analysis, Ciriza adds that capitalism in its current stage increasingly expels people out of the labor market, this situation affects women in a particular way, which also has repercussions on an increasing response from the social movement that binds them together. "As women are the ones who are particularly affected by the transformations in capitalism and in the field of politics, we are the ones who give the answer and who have been able to transmit in a stronger way that message of resistance and rebellion," concludes Alejandra. Alejandra takes the time to talk to the younger girls, makes jokes, tells stories, keeps the audience expectant while providing an extremely acute analysis of the relations between capitalism and patriarchy, as well as her vision of the link between the Marxism and feminism. "I believe that there can be no feminism without ending capitalism" a declaration of principles by Alejandra that reviews the work of great revolutionary women who contributed to the construction of a feminism contrary to the liberal logic that equality between men and women could occur within the framework of capitalist relations, “if we achieve equality in capitalism, that equality will only be for upper-class women. For feminism that I profess, rights and freedoms are for everyone, if not they remain privileges ”, she says clearly. Optimist of the will, Ciriza sees feminism as an emancipatory force "I trust that feminists are giving that message of criticism of this hegemonic model that makes us sick", she points out when referring to the advance of the agribusiness model and highlights that feminists is that of resistance to agribusiness. "They are in the first line of fire, they are the ones who are fumigated, they are the ones who encounter pesticides every day," he points out; She highlights that for this reason it is not by chance that the resistance is headed by peasant women and adds that the rebellion of these women is born from the awareness of what is happening. Video: Critique of Capitalism. Nancy Fraser (October 2020).

Oil companies? Government? The public? All of the above shares the blame. There are numerous ongoing legal challenges in an effort to determine who is responsible for climate change. Exxon is being investigated by state attorneys general, cities are suing oil companies for the costs of rising sea levels, and Our Children’s Trust is suing the federal government for failing to protect its generation from climate change. At the heart of these legal challenges is the question: who is to blame for climate change and responsible for its costs and consequences? Like Exxon, Shell knew Exxon has been a primary target of these investigations and lawsuits since Inside Climate News investigative reporting revealed that the company's internal climate science investigation warned of the dangers posed by human-caused global warming since the late 1990s. seventies. Recently, Dutch journalist Jelmer Mommers from De Correspondent unearthed internal Shell documents that began warning of the dangers associated with human-caused climate change 30 years ago. The company's 1988 report "The Greenhouse Effect" warned: By the time global warming becomes detectable, it could be too late to take effective countermeasures to reduce the effects or even stabilize the situation. And, particularly relevant to the Our Children’s Trust lawsuits, the 1988 Shell report warned of climate consequences for future generations. Similarly, in a 1991 film called Climate of Concern, Shell warned, Global warming is not yet certain, but many think that waiting for the final test would be irresponsible. Stock is now seen as the only safe insurance. The case against Exxon and Shell is similar to the case against the tobacco companies, which committed fraud to mislead the American public about the health effects of their products. However, the oil companies tweaked the tobacco playbook. Rather than directly misinforming the public, they funneled money to conservative think tanks that did the dirty work like Merchants of Doubt. By outsourcing the disinformation campaign and allowing their scientists to publish research in peer-reviewed journals, where it was available to the public, but largely invisible, the oil companies sought to protect themselves against the legal liability that brought down the tobacco industry. The case against the fossil fuel industry is largely based on evidence that these companies misled the American public about the threats posed by the consumption of their products. The case against the federal government seems more straightforward. In their defense against cities demanding sea level rise damages, oil industry lawyers essentially argued that the blame does not lie with the producers, but with the consumers of fossil fuels, and that any economic problems must be addressed through policies rather than the judicial system. But, of course, the US government has not implemented climate policies in the last two decades. In 1998, the Senate refused to ratify the Kyoto Protocol. The Bush Administration censored government climate reports and took no action to address climate change. Thanks to a Republican threat of obstruction, a carbon and trade bill passed by the House died in the Senate in 2009. The Obama administration finally took concrete steps to address climate change, for example by drafting the Clean Energy Plan. and signing the Paris climate accords, but the Trump administration has (at least temporarily) reversed all those efforts. In short, Our Children’s Trust is correct in asserting that the US government has failed to protect future generations from the threats and harms of climate change. Everyone shares the blame for climate change Oil companies make a valid point that consumers share the blame for causing climate change. The public has been aware of the climate threat for more than a decade - the topic was popularized in An Inconvenient Truth in 2006. Yet 12 years later, Americans are still buying trucks and SUVs, while hybrid and electric vehicles represent only 3% of new car sales. While the power grid has become cleaner due to the falling cost of wind, solar and natural gas that displaces coal-fired power plants, Americans have done little to demand or provoke that kind of change in other energy sectors. That would require a climate policy, which most Americans (including Trump voters) support, but their support is superficial. It is not a problem that decides the votes, so policy makers are not pressured to take action. The fossil fuel industry certainly bears some responsibility for having funneled tens of millions of dollars to climate-denying think tanks who have worked hard to misinform the American public. Republican Party politicians and conservative media have followed suit in helping to convey that climate misinformation. A recent study found evidence that "Americans may have shaped their attitudes [on climate change] through the use of elite party cues" broadcast through the media. The history books will not reflect well on American conservatives today. Yet when hybrid cars have been mass produced for more than 20 years and still 97% of new cars sold in America still run exclusively on inefficient and polluting technology from the 19th century internal combustion engine, Americans in neither do they do their part to stop climate change. There is a great deal of blame for rising weather costs, but so far, taxpayers are paying the entire bill. Eventually there may be a court case where the fossil fuel industry, like the tobacco industry before it, is held accountable for its role in misleading the American public about the dangers of carbon pollution. And American voters will eventually punish the Republican Party for its decades of climate denial and policy obstruction. Accountability comes. Video: 7 INSANE Effects of Climate Change in Your Lifetime (October 2020). No to the “Bayer-Monsanto” Seed Law negotiated behind the backs of the Argentine people Homeopathy for children. The six must-have remedies for colds and flu March 15: “Young people are going to change the destiny of humanity” Join us

Statement from the Ríos Vivos Antioquia Movement regarding EPM's decision to close the floodgates of the Hidroituango powerhouse, killing the Cauca River. As communities affected by Hidroituango, we express to national and international public opinion our deep sorrow for the environmental and social crime that Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) is committing maliciously, against our employer Mono (the Cauca River, the beautiful Bredunco ), the second most important in the country on which we depend about 10 million people We would NEVER ask, with the fallacious argument of protecting ourselves, to assassinate the river that gives us life, on which our culture, food and economy depend. We do not accept that they make us suppose that this crime was for us, we will not carry it on our conscience that it has fought with dignity to avoid what we suffer today. We demand respect from them. They do it only and solely in the name of their death project, which is their true priority. Contrary to what was said at a press conference by the manager of EPM (Jorge Londoño de la Cuesta) in the presence of the governor of Antioquia (Luis Pérez) and the mayor of Medellín (Federico Gutiérrez), the river will not be the same again and neither will we because its life and the strength that today was taken from it, the sediments that are being dammed, its abundant flow, the temperature of its waters and the hydrated banks that today suffer erosion with so many fluctuations; all this is given because of their folly, because they do not know they have no idea that it is a river, a very complex ecosystem to be understood with the eyes of greed and destruction. They warned us that there would be no water and that it is not known how long. Relying on a tank car, which is EPM's solution, to have water is a new anguish created by Hidroituango. The responsibility for what happens to the river and the communities belongs to all those who accepted this death project, to the National Environmental Licensing Agency (ANLA), an environmental authority that most seems like the lawyer of EPM, of complicit institutions that They continue to ignore reality and the call for freedom that the river cries out. The death of the river is our own death. EPM brought hunger and desolation. The groups outside the law have grown and this is also their responsibility, children have joined these groups because of hunger, families do not have to eat and the only option is violence. Do not try to convince us that we are a priority when for 10 years they have been ignoring us, displacing, mistreating, humiliating, violating our rights, lying, persecuting, leaving us without work, without food, without tranquility and without housing. They have stolen everything we had, our life and now they are attacking a natural asset of all Colombia. The only way to truly protect life in the Cauca River Canyon, Lower Cauca, and to save the river is to dismantle Hidroituango. Video: The Danube: River of Life (October 2020).

The solar system would be ejected by a crash from the Milky Way Our Milky Way is scheduled to collide with the Andromeda galaxy, but a new study observed that much earlier, the collision will be with the Magellanic Cloud. These will be the consequences ... “The Milky Way is on a collision course with a neighboring galaxy that could launch our Solar System into space. The Large Magellanic Cloud could impact our galaxy in 2 billion years ", highlighted the University of Hurban on January 4 in a publication in Montly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society magazine. In the words of Marius Cautun, who has directed the work, “Although 2 billion years may seem like an eternity compared to a human lifetime, on cosmic timescales it is actually a very short period. "This galactic collision would occur long before the expected impact between the Milky Way and another neighbor, the Andromeda galaxy, which scientists say will reach our galaxy in 8 billion years", was the conclusion of the study led by Marius Cautum, fellow postdoctoral at the Institute of Computational Cosmology of the university. . Recent observations indicate that the Milky Way is atypical: it has a supermassive black hole smaller than the center; it is surrounded by a very low mass, excessively metal-poor stellar halo and has an unusually large nearby satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud, "said astronomer Cautum. Cautum's team foresees that this catastrophic collision will restore the Milky Way to its normal spiral shape. “The union with the Large Magellanic Cloud could awaken the dormant black hole in our galaxy, which would begin to devour the surrounding gas and increase in size up to ten times. As it feeds, the now active black hole would spew high-energy radiation, ”says the University report. Although life on Earth is probably not affected at all, the researchers say there is a small chance that the initial collision could send our Solar System into space. "At the end of this exceptional event, the Milky Way will become a true reference point for spiral galaxies, at least temporarily," concludes the study. A new visitor The Large Magellanic Cloud entered our neighborhood about 1.5 billion years ago according to scientists. It is located about 163,000 light years from our galaxy, moves very fast, and is the brightest satellite galaxy. Consequences for the solar system "The Large Magellanic Cloud is rapidly losing energy and is doomed to crash." "There is a small possibility that we cannot escape unscathed from the collision between the two galaxies, which could take us out of the Milky Way and into space," says Dr. Marius Cautun. According to, the catastrophic merger with the Large Magellanic Cloud could "wake up" Sagittarius A *, the supermassive black hole that sleeps in the center of our galaxy, which would begin to devour everything around it and could increase up to ten times its size. At present, Sagittarius A * has a mass equivalent to that of four million suns. A great show According to the researchers,the collision between the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Milky Way will be spectacular. In the words of Carlos Frenk, director of the Institute of Computational Cosmology at Durham University and co-author of the study, “As beautiful as it is, our Universe is constantly evolving through very violent events, such as the next collision with the Large Cloud of Magellan". “Unless major disasters occur,” Frenk continues, “like a major disturbance to the Solar System, our descendants, if there are any by then, will be faced with a spectacular display of cosmic fireworks as the newly awakened supermassive black hole of the Earth. center of our galaxy begins to emit huge and bright jets of extremely energetic radiation. Video: Infinity u0026 Beyond Episode 5: The Milkomeda Collision (October 2020).

WHAT DOES MUYU Consist of Fruit Food Seed Seed? It is a reforestation project for the world, from the schools. Experienced in Atenas, Costa Rica. Approved as a reforestation strategy for the world by the World Peoples Meeting (Cochabamba, Bolivia, 2010). Hosted as a strategy by the Network of Seed Guardians in America, promoted by the Secretariat of Good Living Ecuador. Objective: That millions of children grow millions of fruit trees each year, to replant in homes, schools, deforested places, water sources, river banks, parks. At no cost to the State or families, with reused materials. Responding to the need to achieve a sustainable habitat Strategy: -Create in each school: * A bank of seeds: collecting them from the fruits that we eat or discard, washing and drying them for eight days, storing them later in used glass jars, with a date and name. * A fruit tree nursery: using soil and reused plastic containers, sowing the seeds, watering them until they germinate and caring for them until they become strong. -Share (never sell) the plants with their families, the community or by planting them at school, at home and in deforested places. Benefits: * Develops in children the habit of saving, protecting the seed and sowing it. * It will reduce deforestation, returning their habitat to many species, including humans. * Reduces global warming: trees release oxygen and retain the CO2 that causes the greenhouse effect. * Avoid famine: there will be free fruits, the healthiest food, to share with all living beings. * Replace the consumption of meat and dairy. The land occupied by a cow can produce healthy food for many families. * Regulates rainfall and increases water sources. * Produces humus, improves the quality of soils, making them productive. * Trees provide wood to make our house and beautify the landscape. PLEASE SIGN AND SHARE THIS PAGE IF YOU AGREE TO PRACTICE VERY FRUIT FOOD SEED SEED. Hernando Rojas, actor in the novel El Ángel de Piedra, promotes the re-afforestation project for the world Fruit Food Seed Seed. By Agreement # 0074-09, the Ministry of Education of Ecuador committed to: (…) Art. 2. IMPLEMENT in all Basic Education and High School establishments in the country, the project "MUYU: food fruit, sown seed" according to the particularities of each one, preserving the objectives and methodology set out in the project, including it in the Institutional Educational Project (PI ) and fostering strategic alliances that integrate the different actors and members of the educational community and society as a whole, for the best use of the resources generated by the project. It is a priority that education incorporates the practice of reforestation so that girls and boys develop this habit and contribute to the reconstruction of the planet. Ecuador has approx. 3 million students. If each one @ sows 1 seed per week in nurseries, in 20 weeks they will have planted 60 million trees, without money, with reused materials. What if this project was done by students from all over the world? The seed is the basis of the life cycle on which living beings depend. Altered by deforestation and pollution originating from production. Nothing that we adults do to rebuild the planet will have continuity if the new generations are not involved in this practice. Video: Fun Growing Vegetables Fruits from Food Scraps Seeds Video Episode. Bhavnas Kitchen (October 2020). Desperate animals in Australia's worst drought Bury an egg in your garden and see what happens a few days later

Faced with the claim that the capitalist economic model (classical economics, neoclassical economics and neoliberal economics) is a finished product - and therefore does not deserve further discussion because it is considered successful and irreversible - multiple schools, trends, currents, have developed in the world. disciplines and proposals that try to varying degrees to overcome criticism of the hegemonic economy. Thus we have, among others: the blue economy (Pauli, 2011), the orange economy (Buitrago and Duque, 2013), the green economy (Pearce et al., 1989), the economy of the common good (Felber, 2013), the collaborative economy (Ray, 2007), solidarity economy (Singler, 2002; Mance, 1999), circular economy (Pearce and Turner, 1990), the economy of happiness (Easterlin, 1974) and one could even speak of an emerging Indigenous economy (Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, 2007). We could also mention the hybrid disciplines: ecological economics (Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Herman E. Daly, Kenneth Boulding, Karl W. Kapp, Robert Ayres), environmental economics (Hartwick, 1977; Solow, 1986), and Resource economics Natural The purpose of this article is to review the main characteristics of these proposals and try to identify their level of articulation with the concept of sustainability. It is understood that this is a first approach and is at the same time an invitation to carry out more in-depth research that will lead to decision-makers from the various sectors of society to extract lessons applicable to the participatory formulation and implementation of policies. public. Concepts: We are going to collect from the literature the main aspects that characterize these proposals. It is clarified that not all have the same theoretical development but they are all valued anyway. From complex thinking there is no discrimination regarding the degree of scientific support of the proposals since they all have something to say and therefore to pay attention to them. Blue economy: It seeks to use the knowledge accumulated over millions of years by nature to reach ever higher levels of efficiency, respecting the environment and creating wealth, and translate that logic of the ecosystem to the business world. (Pauli, 2011). Orange economy: It represents an enormous wealth based on talent, intellectual property, connectivity and, of course, the cultural heritage of our region (Buitrago and Duque, 2013). Green economy: It refers to an economy that improves human well-being and social equity, while significantly reducing environmental risks and ecological scarcities (UNEP). Ecological economy: It is a scientific discipline that integrates elements of economics, ecology, thermodynamics, ethics and other natural and social sciences to provide an integrated and biophysical perspective of the interactions that are interwoven between economy and environment (Castiblanco, 2007). Economy of the common good: It is defined as an alternative nonpartisan economic system, which proposes to build based on universal human values ​​that promote the Common Good. They place their focus of action on cooperation and not on competition, on the common good and not on the profit motive . From that place they propose to become a lever for change at an economic, political and social level, a bridge between the old and the new (https://economiadelbiencomun.org/) Collaborative economy: It alludes to a new economic model that is based on the “exchange between individuals of goods and services, which remained idle or underused, in exchange for a compensation agreed between the parties” (National Commission of Markets and Competition - CNMC, cited by Ten, 2015). Solidarity economy: It is mainly concerned with studying the different ways of satisfying human needs, taking into account the available resources, putting first the respect for human rights, the protection of the environment and the dignity of people. It is therefore a type of economy with an ethical character (OXFAM Intermom). Circular economy: it is restorative and regenerative on purpose, and tries to ensure that products, components and materials maintain their maximum usefulness and value at all times, distinguishing between technical and biological cycles. It is envisioned as a continuous positive development cycle that preserves and enhances natural capital, optimizes resource returns, and minimizes system risks by managing finite reserves and renewable flows. It works effectively on all scales. This economic model ultimately tries to unlink global economic development from the consumption of finite resources (Ellen MacArthur Foundation, n.d.). The map of economies and their articulation with sustainability: In order to locate the various economic proposals, we will use as a measure a line that goes from those that are located in the field of weak sustainability and at the other extreme the proposals that can be characterized as strong sustainability. In this case, strong sustainability is understood to be those that genuinely consider the economic, social and environmental dimensions at the same level and weighting. A line that runs parallel to the first refers to the proposals where superficial ecology is considered at the extreme left and deep ecology at the extreme right. Figure 1 shows the sustainability measurement scale. __________________________________________________________________ Classical economics (neoclassical, neoliberal) is found in the weak sustainability field, as its fundamental orientation is economic growth at all costs and considers that human society is separated from nature and that the latter is an unlimited source of resources. In this case, it is considered that people are at the service of the economy and not the economy at the service of people. This economic model is the cause of the great crises of humanity, among which the climate crisis and the crisis of values ​​stand out by advocating individualism, consumerism and competition. In the field of strong sustainability is the ecological economy that is defined precisely with the science of sustainability and part of a deep criticism of the neoclassical (neoliberal) economy (Arce, 2016). This is a scientific proposal that has not reached the instrumental development of classical economics (neoclassical, neoliberal) but that has influenced the generation of biophysical indicators (Van Hauwermeiren, 1998). The Bioeconomy and Economy of the Common Good are also close to sustainability. While in classical economics (neoclassical, neoliberal) the fundamental success indicator is money, in Bioeconomy the fundamental indicator is respect for life rather than only to the production of goods and services that come from nature (Maldonado, nd). In the same way, the Economy of the Common Good considers that money is a means and not an end, paying more attention to substantial aspects such as human values ​​and collaboration. Very close to these proposals would be the proposal to put happiness at the center of development, as is the case of Bhutan. The Gross National Happiness of Bhutan measures: i) Psychological well-being (spirituality and life satisfaction), ii) Use of time (balance work, leisure and sleep), iii) Community vitality (integration between communities, families and friends) , iv) Cultural diversity (cultural diversity and continuity of traditions such as festivals and others), v) Ecological resilience (evaluation of environmental conditions and “eco-friendly behaviors), vi) Living standards (income, financial security and purchasing power ), vi) Health (physical and mental conditions of the population), vii) Education (formal and informal education, knowledge, values ​​and skills), viii) Good governance (Perception of government management and service provision) (Espitia, 2016). Although the economics of happiness is interested in researching people's happiness beyond the perspective of economists (Easterlin, 1974) it is still more a measurement method than an independent proposal that advocates sustainability. However, the mere fact of exceeding the materialistic indicators of development already constitutes a contribution of fundamental importance. At the same level as Bhutan's Gross National Happiness would be the indigenous economy. The indigenous economy is based on cooperation, solidarity, reciprocity, taking distribution and the close relationship between human beings and nature as the organizing axis (Inter-American Institute of Human Rights, 2007). However, it must be recognized that the indigenous economy is for now more a political than a theoretical proposal. A little further back, but with great weight in its orientation to sustainability, would be the blue economy and the solidarity economy. The blue economy proposes that the lessons of nature be used to generate ingenious, creative and profitable development alternatives. For its part, the solidarity economy has a strong weight in recognizing the work of producers who take into account social and environmental considerations. In between would be the circular economy and the orange economy. Both highlight specificities of sustainability that are also very important to take into account. Thus, the circular economy places great emphasis on recycling and reusing things in order to reduce pollution and generate new sustainable employment opportunities. The orange economy also emphasizes the deployment of the creative talent of individuals and communities. The interesting thing about the orange economy is that it is a wake-up call to those who consider that the only thing that a country can develop is the commitment to extractive industries. Under this consideration, the post-extractivism proposals would make real sense because they bet on looking more closely at the richness of biodiversity and the cultural diversity of peoples (Alayza and Gudynas, 2011). Also at this same level we would put the collaborative economy that emphasizes collaboration using the possibilities offered by the internet. Something further behind these proposals (already entering the field of weak sustainability) would be the green economy, the environmental economy and the economy of natural resources. The fundamental characteristic of these proposals is that they have taken note of the criticisms of classical economics (neoclassical, neoliberal) and claim to actively incorporate social and environmental aspects. The issue is that they do not abandon the basic assumptions of the commodification of nature and therefore need valuation in order to internalize externalities. By way of conclusions: Although the map developed is still preliminary, it allows us to draw valuable conclusions: From capitalism itself, proposals are developed that erode the fundamental dogmas of classical economics (neoclassical, neoliberal). This reveals a deep crisis of the capitalist model, even though its defenders insist on denying it. A fundamental shift toward sustainability is the shift from money to life. Another twist is to overcome a vision exclusively in competition to recognize the value of cooperation, or in any case of cooperativeness. It is interesting to recognize the proposals that put the real value of life and happiness as indicators of success. Although ecological economics has not had the instrumental and methodological development of classical economics (neoclassical, neoliberal), it has exerted a notable influence to generate alternative proposals more oriented towards sustainability. The various proposals reviewed realize the need to strengthen complex thinking that pays more attention to things that have not been seen or have not been wanted to see for convenience. The proposals also highlight the need to break the colonization of thought and creatively and innovatively seek alternatives that aim to better manage local energies. Finally, there is a need for these issues to enter the public debate, for more research, case studies and pilot projects to be developed. 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A European report ensures that the gas does not present any significant advantage in reducing greenhouse gas emissions or improving air quality. According to the report 'CNG and LNG for vehicles and ships: the facts', published by the European Transport and Environment (T&E) network, of which Ecologists in Action, Eco-Union and PTP are part, using natural gas in transport is as bad for the climate as using gasoline, diesel or conventional marine fuels. In relation to air quality, research shows that burning gas in cars generates as much pollution as burning gasoline. With regard to diesel vehicles, the advantage in terms of air quality is minimal and may disappear as soon as the new requirements already planned are implemented. For T&E, Ecologistas en Acción, Eco-Unión and PTP, public administrations must accept that fossil gas cannot help to clean up the transport sector, so gas should be taxed with the same taxes as diesel and fuel. gasoline. When the effects of methane leakage (a gas with a warming potential 86 times greater than that of CO2 in the first 20 years of life), the supposed climatic advantages of natural gas over oil are not such. In the case of passenger cars, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from natural gas can be between a maximum of 106% and a minimum of 93% in relation to diesel. In trucks, GHG emissions in the case of using natural gas are also quite similar, ranging between 5% higher and 2% lower when compared to the best latest generation trucks that use fossil fuels. In ships, the impact of using Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) is very close to that of Marine Diesel, but the exact figures are highly dependent on the leakage of methane in the engine and in the extraction process. Recent research shows that actual methane leakage along the entire supply chain is actually 60% higher than has been estimated to date. These data demolish the argument of natural gas as “clean” or “transitional” fuels towards renewables on which the great promotion of which it is the subject is based. The transport sector, led by car manufacturers, is engaged in an aggressive campaign to promote gas as the fuel of the future. And this is translating into a growing market share. This impulse could not be explained without the determined support of the public administrations, which grant this consideration of "clean fuel" to gas, translated into tax advantages. In Spain, gas is taxed 88% lower than diesel and 91.4% lower than gasoline. This situation of tax advantage is general throughout Europe and in some countries with high sales of vehicles with compressed natural gas (CNG) and liquefied natural gas (LNG), fossil gas enjoys even lower taxes. Italy, for example, consumes 60% of the methane used in European transport and its sales of CNG vehicles represent 68%. If LNG had similar taxes to diesel, there would be no business model for LNG trucks. The Spanish Government should therefore stop subsidizing the purchase of gas vehicles. Likewise, the municipal administrations must withdraw the consideration of a clean vehicle when establishing criteria for access to city centers or for the renewal of municipal services vehicles. Gas-powered cars, trucks and ships do not have benefits for the climate and are a distraction from achieving the real objective, which is a transport model with zero emissions, based on cities where public transport is prioritized and on the promotion of walking and cycling. Governments must resist the gas lobby onslaught and stop wasting scarce public resources on gas infrastructure and tax benefits for fossil gas. The report shows how gas is not a solution either to face the problem of air quality in cities. Gas passenger cars - including so-called renewable gas - produce as much pollution as gasoline cars and very little less than those diesel vehicles that actually comply with EU standards. In trucks, the use of LNG can increase NOx emissions, depending on the type of engine, and can have significantly higher particulate matter emissions than diesel trucks. For ships, the use of LNG has a clear benefit compared to heavy fuel oil (HFO), although NOx post-treatment systems and additional desulfurization of current marine fuels could produce similar results. On the highway, the sulfur content standards for gasoline and diesel are 100 times more demanding than for marine fuels in the Sulfur Emission Control zones (SECA, in its acronym in English). Thus, marine fuels can be further desulfurized to produce the same low level of pollution at sea as on land, without the need to replace thousands of ships and their bunkering infrastructure to run on LNG. . In its eagerness to dress in green, the gas sector is increasingly showing the business card of the so-called “renewable gas”, a totum revolutum that includes everything from biogas to gas from renewable electricity. Under this apparently ecological profile, the gas lobby seeks to demand public support for gas infrastructures (transport networks, warehouses, etc.) that are currently very socially questioned. Although there is a percentage of biomethane that could be produced in a sustainable way from waste, the report points out that the maximum possible potential and in the best of cases in which everything was dedicated to transport, would not reach 10%. This is a very limited potential, in addition to the problem of competition with other uses that also require a decarbonization process and that still use gas - residential, heating and electricity - where, at least, it is not necessary to invest in new infrastructure. For its part, renewable gas based on electricity (conversion of surplus renewable electricity into hydrogen and later into methane to inject it as storage in the grid) is very energy intensive and very expensive to produce, according to the report's findings. In conclusion, for T&E, Ecologistas en Acción, Eco-Unión and PTP, the idea that transportation can be decarbonized with renewable gas is a chimera. Governments must abandon the promotion of this fuel immediately if the objectives of the Paris Agreement are to be met. Samuel Martín-Sosa (head of International Ecologists in Action): 686 961 486 Isabell Buschel (Transport and Environment spokesperson) 658 391 171 Video: Climate Change and Air Pollution (October 2020).

Thousands of crabs and starfish were found dead on a beach in the south of the United Kingdom, because of the cold wave that the British Isles suffered weeks ago.Other animal species such as hedgehogs, clams, anemones and various types of crustaceans were also found. Scientists reported that the current carried them to Ramsgate Beach. They have appeared at low tide. The cause: the freezing temperatures left by ‘The Beast from the East’ and the storm ‘Emma’. The issue exploded the international media after local residents uploaded photos to social networks. “I manage to get the twins out of bed early to catch the low tide and see this starfish show. Hundreds of thousands of starfish, sea urchins, crabs, seaweed and fish, killed and carried away by the ‘beast from the east’. We saved a few crabs, but most of them were dead. A sad look, but incredible, ”Lara Maiklem posted on the London Mudkark Facebook wall. The British Marine Conservation Society said it appears to be a combination of extreme cold and the depth to which storm waves penetrated. We can then conclude that death is due to climate change and the changes it causes in the global climate. Video: Scientists blame virus for millions of North American starfish deaths along US Pacific Coast (October 2020).

When are antibiotics used in farm animals and what is their effect on humans? Antibiotics are widely used in beef, pork, and chicken production, but there is concern that repeated use of antibiotics may increase resistance in bacteria, making vital antibiotics less effective against serious diseases in the human beings. There is international pressure on governments, medical professionals and pharmaceutical companies to reduce the use of antibiotics. Despite the campaigns, drug companies continue to lobby against stricter regulation of antimicrobials, which have a wide range of uses. Some feel that drug companies are willing to avoid further regulation. According to Richard Young, Policy Director for Sustainable Food Trust: “Once they have an antibiotic, they have an obligation to their shareholders to get as much money as possible from it. This is a very sophisticated industry, with a long history of lobbying. The problem is that much of the information used by regulators is generated by scientists connected to pharmaceutical companies. " Joseph Harvey, editor of Animal Pharm, said: “It is the overuse of antibiotics in some species and countries that is causing particular concern, particularly in Asia, Latin America and southern Africa. “Bacteria in humans and edible animals continue to show resistance to the most widely used antimicrobials. For example, resistance to ciprofloxacin is very high in Campylobacter, which causes serious foodborne infections, and this reduces the effectiveness of treatment. The multi-drug resistant salmonella bacteria also continues to spread across Europe and this has serious implications for public health. " Are they an important part of the pharmaceutical market? An analysis of the reports shows that pharmaceutical companies obtain large sums of certain antimicrobials. In 2016, Zoetis, which is the world's largest producer of medicines and vaccines for pets and livestock, derived 7% of its revenue from its range of ceftiofur antibiotics. In 2016, Zoetis revenue was $ 4.8bn, which means that the ceftiofur line brought in around $ 340m. Zoetis was originally part of the pharmaceutical company Pfizer. In 2012, the US Food and Drug Administration warned that due to its strength and misuse on farms, ceftiofur could pose a “high risk to public health,” in part because it belongs to a class of antibiotics. considered critically important in human medicine. Why are human antibiotics more expensive? Although the market for human antibiotics is smaller in large quantities sold, their value is greater than that of animals. Dr. Gail Hansen, a public health veterinarian and antibiotic resistance expert, explains that this is because it is more expensive to produce drugs for humans than for animals. "Basic penicillins and tetracyclines are very cheap drugs for both humans and animals, but they are cheaper for animals, just because with animals they do not need to be presented in blisters, etc." The cost of antibiotics in animals was lower simply because they were often given to animals destined for the cheaper market of the food market. Hansen said he had heard of people accessing animal antibiotics for human use as a result. “Anecdotally, I have heard that in the United States, people who have access to animal drugs (farmers, ranchers, animal health workers) know that they can pay pennies for the animal drug or $ 5 for the human equivalent. I don't think much happens, but I think it happens. " Increases mycobial resistance Experts say that microbial resistance to antibiotics, largely fueled by drug overuse and misuse, has left the world facing "a terrible post-antibiotic apocalypse," as these treatments become ineffective. The new research, funded by the probiotic company Deerland Enzymes, divided 32 participants, all of whom reported recurring gastrointestinal problems but were otherwise healthy, into two groups. One group was given a placebo capsule for four weeks, the other group was given a capsule from the company containing four strains of phage that are expected to attack E. coli. Neither the participants nor the researchers knew which capsules were given to which during the trial. After four weeks, both groups stopped taking their capsules and, two weeks later, switched their capsules to the opposite type, which were then taken for a further four weeks. Video: Antibiotic Use in Farm Animals (October 2020).

The difference in having a good or bad day can be in what you eat for breakfast. Give your body energy in the morning to have a good day. The ideal breakfast should balance complex carbohydrates with protein and healthy fats. It is not necessary to sit at the table with a tablecloth, cutlery and plates, I am aware that few people have time to get up to dedicate half an hour to breakfast, but it takes 5-10 minutes each morning to prepare a healthy and quite complete breakfast. If you are also trying to lose weight, breakfast should be a priority in your day to day, as it will help you start the day with energy to be a more active person, dedicate time to training in your schedule and arrive at night with enough gear to do an exercise table instead of finishing with the ice cream tub in front of your favorite series. I have been making the following breakfast for years to start the day well in a healthy, fast and energetic way that does not require more than 10 minutes if I organize myself well: When you wake up I drink a glass of water with freshly squeezed lemon juice Why? By adding the juice of a lemon, it is more pleasant and refreshing for the first thing in the morning, I get to start the day with an extra vitamin C, water to hydrate me, citric acids and lemon flavonoids with anti-inflammatory and energizing properties. Now that I am in the heat of training season, I fasting on some slices of ginger roots and fresh turmeric. Thus, dry stick. They are my natural energizer and anti-inflammatory. If you find it difficult to eat breakfast like me and you get up without hunger regularly, I recommend that you spend 5-10 minutes when getting up to do a table or circuit of functional exercises such as dips, abdominals, lunges, squats, pull-ups, etc. An energizing yoga board is also very good, it has me hooked. No matter what you do, as long as you spend 5-10 minutes exercising and notice that you have already earned the shower and start to feel hungry for breakfast. Always start breakfast with fresh seasonal fruit, it is something light that 'goes in' easily if you don't have an appetite, and vice versa, it fills you with the satiating fiber of fruit if you are one of those who are 'wolf hungry' when you wake up. Make a bowl with: A natural yogurt without sugar or sweetener. A handful of natural nuts (walnuts, hazelnuts, almonds, etc.). Fresh fruit, well chopped, such as apple or pear, or berries such as blueberries, strawberries or raspberries, depending on the season. A black coffee or a black tea or an infusion that you like (rooibos, chamomile, mint, etc.) At first it may be difficult for you to go from drunk coffee and you feel somewhat heavy, you will need a week or two to get used to having breakfast and as soon as you start to notice how breakfast gives you the energy that you were missing in your day to day, you will be one of the breakfast-friends club. And if you can afford more time to cook, start using the kitchen first thing in the morning to vary your breakfast each day, interspersing this energetic breakfast with other more dense ones with scrambled eggs, toasted cereal bread with tomato, extra virgin olive oil, garlic and ham, rye toast with fresh cheese and salmon, etc. Video: 5 SUPER FOODS for Breakfast - Stay Active throughout the day! (October 2020).

While Tesla wants to get away from Wall Street, Chinese electric car maker Nio, seen by some as a ribal of Elon Musk, is preparing to go public and list there. The company stated that it plans to raise up to $ 1.8 billion with the initial public offering and listed the support of Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Bofa Merill Lynch, Deutsche Bank, Citi, Credit Suisse and UBS. Nio launched its first vehicle, the SUV, in December 2017, three years after it was founded in Shanghai. This particular model retails for $ 65,000 in China, which is half the price of the Model X, Tesla's most entry-level SUV. Apart from this model, the Chinese company has plans to start sales of a more affordable SUV, the ES6, next year and launch its first ET7 sedan in 2020. “We are aiming to launch a new model every year in the near future as we develop our business,” said Nio founder William Li in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Nio owners don't have access to Tesla's large network of charging stations, so the Chinese startup has created a fleet of electric vans that can charge their cars in case owners can't find a charging point for third parties. Video: How Can America and the West Successfully Compete With China? (October 2020).

We can barely keep up now. If you haven't been following, Europe is fully on board now with 350kW ultra-fast charging technology, even before an electric car can harness all that power. The continent is committed to a future-proof charging infrastructure and now a fifth network is beginning to install the new and more powerful stations. The first network to come to light was Ionity, backed by BMW, Mercedes, Ford and Volkswagen. As we reported earlier this week, it's starting to take shape and we take our first look at their map of planned stations. Then there was the Ultra-E, backed by Allego, Audi, BMW, Magna, Renault, Hubject, and others. Then Allego recently launched another larger network called MEGA-E, which represents a massive effort to deploy more than 300 stations. But that's not all because last month Renault, which is already involved with one of those 3 networks, decided to back another in southern Europe. Now it's up to Fastned to come on board with an ultra-fast 350 kW charge joining electrification and robotics giant ABB. The company already operates a network of fast charging stations in Europe, mainly in the Netherlands, but they have been expanding, as we previously reported. This week, they opened their first 350 kW station in the 'De Watering' service area located on the A8 motorway near Amsterdam: Fastned co-founder Bart Lubbers commented on the new charging station: “I am very proud of our new station. María García, our architect, has put a lot of energy into an iconic design that is better in every detail and that is visible. It is very important to increase the charging speed as it makes driving electric vehicles attractive to more people. Because the question that almost all consumers ask is "How long does it take to get paid?" The company says they are preparing for the next generation of next-generation electric vehicles that will support the highest rate of charge, which is why they are adding those new 350 kW chargers to their network. Taking Electrek Most of those "next generation electric vehicles that will support a higher charge rate" come from German automakers and are expected to hit the European market first. It makes sense for them to deploy the stations there first, and for automakers to directly support several of those efforts as well, although not this one, as Fastned is a separate network already up and running. These are certainly interesting times to load infrastructure and I think some competition between networks could really shape the industry into something bigger. The next few years could be almost as exciting on the load as it is on the actual vehicle side of things. Video: DC Charging of electric vehicles (October 2020). The Argentine agricultural model neglects the right to food

They experiment with vaccines in the human population Argentina: sold as human guinea pigs. Laboratorio Glaxo Smith Kline experimented with children from Santiago del Estero, Mendoza and San Juan. Justice confirmed in 2017 the fine of one million pesos to the GlaxoSmithKline laboratory and two doctors for irregularities in clinical trials with children from poor families in the provinces of Santiago del Estero, Mendoza and San Juan that, between 2007 and 2008, were tested during the development of a vaccine against pneumonia and otitis media. They experiment with vaccines in the human population Argentina: sold as human guinea pigs. Laboratorio Glaxo Smith Kline experimented with children from Santiago del Estero, Mendoza and San Juan. Justice confirmed in 2017 the fine of one million pesos to the GlaxoSmithKline laboratory and two doctors for irregularities in clinical trials with children from poor families in the provinces of Santiago del Estero, Mendoza and San Juan that, between 2007 and 2008, were tested during the development of a vaccine against pneumonia and otitis media. The unvaccinated do not put the vaccinated at risk It is often claimed that those who choose not to vaccinate their children for reasons of conscience endanger the rest of the public, and this is the raison d'être of most of legislation to end vaccine exemptions. It should be noted that the nature of the protection afforded by many modern vaccines - which includes most of the vaccines recommended by the CDC for children - is not consistent with such a statement.

Greenpeace called for "clean air now for the City of Buenos Aires" after conducting a study that measured air quality in 20 points in CABA near kindergartens, primary schools and pediatric hospitals. According to the environmental organization, the results are alarming. Two toxic components present in air pollution, mostly a product of emissions from the exhaust pipes of buses and trucks, were measured on different dates in more than five Buenos Aires neighborhoods. In all cases, the limits established by the World Health Organization (WHO) were exceeded. According to Greenpeace, both toxics, nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and Particulate Matter 2.5 (PM2.5) come from air pollution generated by the use of petroleum derivatives, such as diesel. For Ingo Boltz, coordinator of Greenpeace's air pollution campaign, “the exposure received by those who travel these areas on a daily basis is worrying: 31% of all NO2 measurements violate the WHO limits and even worse is the case of PM2.5, a matter that we can consider poisonous due to its serious health effects and that in 72% of the measurements exceeded the limits. " Likewise, the environmental organization points out that the air quality measurement system led by the Buenos Aires government is insufficient since it only has three measurement stations, while cities as large as CABA in Latin America have 10 or more. In turn, local measurements leave out pollutants such as PM 2.5 that pose a high risk to health. The WHO establishes the limit of chronic exposure to PM2.5 of 10 µm / m3 annual average. However, during the study Greenpeace found values ​​exceeding up to three times these parameters. Among the highest figures is the sample taken in the vicinity of Infant School No. 5, School District 2, where the President Miter Elementary School number 16 also operates in the Balvanera neighborhood, which reached an average of 35.6 µm / m3. On the other hand, the point near the Jardín Integral Nucleado C, where Primary School No. 1 also operates in the Recoleta neighborhood, reached 22.2 µm / m3 and the air measured next to the Dr. Elizalde Pediatric Hospital, former Casa Cuna , in the neighborhood of Constitución, it reached 18.04 µm / m3. In the same way, Boltz stressed: “As long as public transport depends on the burning of fuels such as diesel, breathing in the city is a threat to everyone. WHO figures indicate that 7 million people die annually in the world from air pollution. The latest results of our study are alarming and we believe that they are indicators for the government to take the side of people's health, that is why from Greenpeace we are demanding clean air now. " Among the harmful health effects of continuous inhalation of PM2.5 are respiratory diseases such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), cancer, heart disease and cerebrovascular accidents (CVA). CABA schools interested in measuring the quality of the air around them can contact Greenpeace at 0810-888-4733 and request their measurement kit to be part of a new research with citizen participation together with the Institute of Physical Chemistry of Materials, Environment and Energy (INQUIMAE) of the University of Buenos Aires. Report: http://www.greenpeace.org/argentina/Global/argentina/2018/08/MONITOREO_CALIDAD_DEL_AIRE-Greenpeace.pdf Press Contacts: Aurora Lugo. Tel: (54.9.11) 3226.2600 Florence Rodriguez. Tel: (54.9.11) 3761.2969 Marina Bello. Tel: (54.9.11) 5502.8636 Video: Bay Area Residents Pack Up, Escape Bad Air Quality (October 2020). Scientists predict deadly heat waves in the United States

Couscous is an original dish of Berber gastronomy. Its preparation consists of ground wheat semolina but not so much that it becomes flour. It is very popular in the Middle East, Africa and the Maghreb and the dishes prepared with this type of pasta take its same name. It is so delicious that it has been integrated into the gastronomy of many countries in the world and, in this way, a multitude of variants and recipes have appeared that today allow us to prepare it in very different ways. Thus, in the restaurants where we can taste these exuberant cuisines, you can find dishes of chicken couscous, vegetables, fish, lamb ... Couscous, in terms of its use, is like our rice dishes that go well with everything and it turns out to be a very energetic food. Today we share a recipe with fresh and light Mediterranean-style Couscous: Couscous salad 250 grams of couscous 12 cherry tomatoes 8 artichoke hearts 200 grams of pitted black olives Some fresh basil leaves Optional: feta cheese 5 tablespoons of virgin olive oil The juice of 1 large lemon 2 garlic cloves, minced 1 teaspoon fresh oregano, minced 1/2 tablespoon fresh basil, chopped Salt and pepper to taste First, we cook the couscous as the package indicates. When it is cooked we place it in a large bowl and crumble it with a fork. Wash and cut the tomatoes, artichoke hearts and olives in half. We wash and finely chop the fresh basil. We mix all these ingredients in the bowl with the couscous and reserve. To make the dressing. In a small bowl, mix the olive oil, lemon juice, garlic, oregano and basil. Season with salt and pepper to taste. Pour the dressing over the couscous salad and stir everything until all the ingredients are perfectly integrated. We taste and rectify the salt and pepper if necessary. We can serve it immediately or store it in the fridge to cool down for a few minutes. This salad can be cold or warm, depending on what we want. Note: These quantities are for about 6-7 people, but the quantities can be adapted if desired. We can make the salad the day before, it will stay in perfect condition for up to 3 days refrigerated. Video: INSANE Street Food in Morocco. CRAZY Whole Roast Lamb PIT and MEAT TOUR of Marrakech! EXTREME!!! (October 2020).

8 out of 10 consumers are not interested if what they buy is sustainable On March 5, World Energy Efficiency Day was celebrated, an event that tries to make us reflect on the use - rational or not - that we make of energy, and on the need to establish consumption parameters and limits that respect our environment and even our health. A study carried out by acierto.com shows that only 21% of consumers attach importance to the sustainability and efficiency of the goods they purchase. This means that up to 8 out of 10 miss it. In the case of the sale of cars, the matter becomes especially tricky, since more than half of those surveyed say they would not pay more for an environmentally responsible vehicle. Why would you switch to one then? Basically because of government restrictions and pollution protocols. Our attitude is also reflected in our buildings, which have been suspended in environmental matters for almost six years - since the entry into force of the energy certification for buildings. The problem, again, is that we do not care too much, because the consumer does not have an idea of ​​the savings that it will mean in the long run or the comfort that it can bring. Yes, their perception of the savings that certain measures may entail in another area, say, domestic - such as turning off the light, turning off the tap when you brush your teeth, etc. But is that according to the study data, this kind of measures can save users about 300 euros a year in bills. Here we also include the fact of choosing more efficient appliances, a subject that little by little we seem to be passing, especially with regard to dryers and washing machines. Responsible consumption Saving on heating and air conditioning, and preserving the environment is possible. To begin with, the ideal is to keep the house at a constant temperature that is around 19-21 degrees. At night it will be enough to leave it between 15 and 17 degrees. For those who have a boiler, getting an intelligent thermostat, capable of turning on and off when the house reaches a certain temperature and adapting to their habits and rooms, will also be key. "There are even those that connect to the user's mobile phone and are activated by geolocation when they detect that the person is approaching," says Carlos Brüggemann, co-founder of the company that carried out the study. Checking the radiators is another essential point. And it is possible that they do not heat properly if they have air inside the circuit. To increase heat diffusion, reflective or ceramic sheets can be placed on them. It is advisable to ventilate in the central hours of the day, when it is hotter outside. About five minutes will suffice. Installing double windows, thick curtains, and other insulating materials are other elements that will help. In fact and according to the IDAE, up to 30% of the heating needs come from heat losses originating in the windows. The same happens at night, where the blinds will reduce the feeling of cold. Regarding saving water, it will be enough to apply common sense: do not let it run more than necessary, abandon the bathrooms in favor of showers, put the appliances that use it when they are completely full, install dispensers and aerators that reduce the flow, include a double button system in the cistern, and so on. Compare rates, key to saving "In this area, as in the insurance area, it is very important to compare," says Carlos. Checking the rates offered by the different companies, choosing one that adapts to our hourly habits and consumption needs have become essential actions to save ”, concludes the expert. Fortunately, currently 9 out of 10 Spaniards compare before buying. Something that applies to all kinds of services. In addition, and at home, another way to save in the long run is to take out home insurance that covers appliances when they suffer a breakdown as a result of a storm, power outages and others, which sometimes accompany bad weather. Video: Why Millennials are Done With Green Brands and Why It Matters. Ryan Lupberger. TEDxVail (October 2020). Blueberries, all its properties and a rich recipe A better world is possible ... fantasy or feasible reality? Consumerism, the bad mother of many of our ills

Are you eating too much? Measure food with your hands, with this new guide! English nutritionists released a strange guide to combat excesses in diet. See how to measure what you eat using your own hands. In fact, in addition to seasonings and food choices, portion sizes are important, and the British Nutrition Foundation has released a 'how-to' guide to preventing people from overeating. The guide titled Find Your Balance, Find Your Balance, uses your hands as simple measurements and a spoon to estimate appropriate portions that are easier to understand and practice. This guide by the British Nutrition Foundation was designed to complement government guidelines on what foods to eat and explains how much of each type of food to eat - carbohydrates, proteins, dairy products, fruits and vegetables, oils - are part of a diet. healthy within 2,000 calories for women and 2,500 for men. three to four parts of carbohydrates rich in starch, as dough; two to three servings of protein foods, such as grilled meat; (they can be supplanted by these vegetables) two to three servings of dairy products and dairy products, such as cheese; (they can be supplanted by these vegetables) at least five servings of fruits and vegetables. Macaroni or rice "Portion dimensions are an enigma for many. While an apple or banana is a serving on its own, it is more difficult to assess the correct amount of pasta or rice to cook to maintain a healthy weight," the experts explain. Recipes vary, and many people add more to the plate because they feel particularly hungry. According to the British Nutrition Foundation, the amount of these carbohydrates varies from 65 grams to 75 grams of the dry product (not cooked), Difficult to measure? It is enough to know that this amount is the same that would fit in two hands in the shape of a shell. The guide says that an easy way to measure spaghetti for example is to join the tip of the thumb with the tip of the index finger, as if forming a coin, to find the right amount of spaghetti for each. Meat and fish The recommended single serving of a grilled chicken breast, grilled fish fillet, or beef fillet is "half the size of your hand." This leads us to consider that older people, with bigger hands, will need larger portions. Dried fruits The guide suggests 20 grams of dried nuts or seeds, without salt, that is, the amount that will fit in the palm of your hand, which will have between 113 and 137 calories. Fresh fruit Our diet should consist of a third of fruits and vegetables, a third of carbohydrates rich in starch and the rest divided between milk and protein. This means that, according to the British Nutrition Foundation, we can eat five or more servings of fruits and vegetables, three or four of carbohydrates such as potatoes, bread, rice and pastries, and two to three servings of protein-rich foods and dairy products. . Candies Can't run out of candy? Well, the portions should be small, around 100-150 calories, and not very frequent. Interesting? There is always the fact that a varied diet, useful to obtain all the necessary nutrients, together with regular physical activity, contribute to maintaining good shape and health. For those who need to lose weight or gain weight, the ideal is to consult a nutritionist or nutritionist so that he can indicate the portions indicated for the need of each one, in particular. Video: How to Measure Food Portions with Your Hand (October 2020).

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There are things from this crazy time in the history of humanity, which no matter how much we give them we will never finish understanding. Strange things happen in this world, the problem is that there are so many that one is already anesthetizing and getting used to it until something that should give us chills, seems normal, habitual, or worse, we don't even see it. Entire forests with the most incredible biological diversity, become tree plantations, which will mutate into packaging for luxury consumer goods, which will later become garbage. Rivers that like veins fill vast territories with life, are forced to flood valleys and become inert lakes, sources of disease and producers of death so that we can turn on televisions, irons, microwaves, polishes vacuum cleaners and the advertising posters that "deface" our cities . The mountains also suffer alterations that they would never have expected. In a short time they are exploited, crushed, pulverized, intoxicated and moved once the task of removing everything that represents economic value has been completed. And the oceans. Three-quarters of the planet is water, they taught us since we were little. What they didn't tell us is that over the course of our short lives most of it was going to be polluted, looted and that a large number of the species that gave it life were going to become extinct. But the air causes us real problems, it is so big and restless that it is taking us a lot to see the effects of what we are doing to it. However, some cities like Santiago de Chile or Mexico City offer us a test of how good it can be to produce respiratory and epidermal diseases if our desire to contaminate it is sufficient. Among all this, among all these strange things that we make happen in this world, there are Human Rights. We say that they are inalienable, innate and universal, that States have the obligation to recognize them, ensuring their enjoyment and protection to each person who inhabits their territory. We constantly sign and ratify international treaties and even universal declarations. And we do not fulfill them. While some people spend hundreds or thousands of dollars on an exotic delicacy, a vintage wine, jewelry, furs, cosmetic surgeries and even space travel, others, many others, more than a billion others, are malnourished, do not have nothing to eat, nothing to feed your children. They also do not have potable water to drink or wash. And of course they have no access to health, or education, or anything but a short life in the waiting room of death. It is a very crazy time that we have had to live, there are many things that no matter how much we give them, we will not be able to understand. Luckily, some of us still have a chance to decide whether to ignore them and leave them as they are, or try to change them. What will you do? Video: Climate Change Book Recommendations (October 2020). The jug that serves as a refrigerator helps girls go to school

Allen is the national capital of the pear, in Vaca Muerta, where the fruit crops that are consumed in the rest of the country coexist with the fracking wells. Leukemia, collapsed houses, unbearable sounds, toxic gas emissions, gastroenteritis, vomiting, spills. The story is repeated from neighbor to neighbor. Only the forms change, but the experiences and beliefs are similar. For the oil companies, on the other hand, it is an example of an industry that generates some 3,000 jobs throughout Río Negro and that last year left the province with 500 million pesos in royalties. Allen is part of the Estación Fernández Oro deposit, in the Vaca Muerta sector of Rio Negro. The exploitation of hydrocarbons has been in the area for several decades, but with the emergence of the fracking technique, wells multiplied in the area, where tight gas is the star. Although the long-term health and environmental consequences of fracking are not even clear, there was no prior debate. Someone decided that it was going to be that way and life changed forever. Most of the neighbors don't want to talk, but the rule has several exceptions. Is it possible the coexistence of fracking with crops if gas and oil pay 10 times more per hectare? Does it affect the health of the neighbors? And the environment? Well accidents in the area are far from being an exception. The succession is remarkable and contrasts with the statements of the government of the neighboring province of Neuquén, which after the oil spill that occurred on October 19 in Bandurria Sur, reported that since 2014 there had been no problems in the "area". That statement had one intention: to install the idea that there have been no accidents in all of Vaca Muerta in recent years, and this was reported by a good part of the local press. Naturally, it is a lie. At the South Petroleum Observatory they put together a timeline of the accidents only in Allen. In 2014 two wells exploded and another caught fire causing flames up to 15 meters high. 2015 was the year of the spills. There were four. In one of them, in July, the fluids ended up in a lagoon that connects with others that, in turn, flow into the Negro River. The company Yacimiento del Sur (YSUR, a subsidiary of YPF) offered a score of residents of Calle Ciega 10 a compensation of 44 thousand pesos a year, but demanded in exchange a confidentiality clause, collaboration with the company in case of protests and the resignation of new claims. That year there was also a succession of explosions in the EFO 280 well, but for the Rio Negro government it was a mere “whistle”. After the complaint from the neighbors, the Secretary of Energy, Marcelo Echegoyen, was forceful. "I'm looking at Google Earth and there are no neighborhoods here," he declared. The following year there was the most important accident known in the area, when 240 thousand liters of so-called "formation water" leaked from wells 360 and 362. Animals and fruit trees died. There were more incidents. Most of the time, according to the neighbors, they are told that they are drills, which contrasts - according to those testimonies - with the panicky face of the workers. The controversy is redoubled when the one in charge of controlling is closely linked to the petrochemical industry. The Secretary of the Environment of Río Negro, Dina Migani, owned and worked until 2014 at Quinpe SRL, a company dedicated to the transport, storage and distribution of chemical products and waste related to the extraction of hydrocarbons; and among its clients it has YPF, Petrobras, Halliburton, TGS and Schlumberger, according to a complaint for contamination that the Environment and Natural Resources Foundation (FARN) presented this year, at the request of the president of the Deliberative Council of Fernández Oro Station, Claudio Belt. Beyond accidents, contamination from oil and gas wells often cannot be seen. That is what the NGO Earthworks sought to demonstrate when it visited Fernández Oro Station with an infrared camera brought from the United States to record invisible gases that are highly toxic and potentially deadly, known as volatile organic compounds (VOCs), among which are benzene. , butane, ethylbenzene, methane, propane, octane, toluene and xylene. "People exposed to the contamination of VOCs that we have detected in Argentina can suffer health consequences in the short and long term, including cancer," explained environmentalist Pete Dronkers, of the NGO. The dialogue, simplified in this article, took place in a waiting room of a hospital in Neuquén in which several mothers realized that they had two denominators in common: they live with fracking and agrochemicals, and their children have leukemia. Then a suspicion arose that was later admitted by the provincial Health Minister, Fabián Zgaib, to a journalist from Roca, and by his secretary to the neighbors: that in Allen there are at least 7 cases of leukemia, that is, between three and four times more than is statistically expected. Shortly after, a doctor who asked to keep her identity confidential added the figure and confessed to the neighbors that there were actually 12 cases, but that since most were being treated in Neuquén, the statistics from Río Negro did not reflect it. Officially, for the Province, there were four deaths and five hospitalizations for leukemia in Allen between 2013 and 2017. Infobae requested the hard data from the health portfolio, but found very little collaboration. Of course: they did not want to say how many cases there are in total nor did they deny the seven reported by the neighbors. "I do not know," a spokesman just clarified. Apart from the fact that the information could not be verified, what remains uncovered is a constant in the areas where there are extractivist projects suspected of contamination: the secrecy of medical statistics. In this regard, Allen has another paradigmatic case, that of Rubén Ibáñez, who lives with his wife and one of their children in the Costa Este neighborhood. He was the landlord of the El Alto Nursery, which is now abandoned. The owner, she says, accepted a “help” from YPF so that some pipes could pass under her land and left aside the productive path. Behind his house, about 10 meters away, there is a stream. On the other side there are oil installations whose existence the Ibáñez family learned from the noise when they raised the fracking tower. Nobody warned him. The Ibáñez family is convinced that Rubén's health problems began at the hand of the AP.RN.EFE 141 well, which exploded at 9:00 p.m. on March 19, 2014. “The valves popped and a flare occurred. Everything around shook. They were many hours with the toxic gases coming out. No one came to help us. The doctor who arrived later did not even want to get out of the ambulance to see me, ”said Rubén. "I started with asthma and respiratory problems, and in the end they found a spot on my right lung, even though I never smoked," he said. The word cancer is not part of his story. But his wife is more crude. "He has a tumor," Zulema Campos launched as she looked at her spent cell phone in her kitchen. “The water is not even good for watering the plants, because it comes out contaminated. Everything is a disaster here, ”he complained. Shortly before receiving Infobae they had suffered another accident of great magnitude. They did not want to give Rubén the results of his studies at Allen's hospital and, according to the complaint, he had to initiate a legal action to access his records. Prosecutor Julieta Villa ordered a search in which she only found the cover of her medical record. There was nothing else. Someone wanted to hide the antecedent. Determining the causes of health problems associated with the environment is always a challenge. And in Allen's case there are "at least three accumulation lines" of contamination, as the sociologist Maristella Svampa warned this medium, who has just publishedFarm 51(South American) on the transformations in Allen. “The first, which is linked to the use of agrochemicals in agriculture; the second is the first oil outpost of the seventies onwards; and the third is fracking, which is like the final shot, "he said. Water, landslides and unbearable sounds Although anti-fracking activists often highlight the dangers of climate change among their arguments, neighbors do not talk about it, but about concrete problems. His concern is another. Estela Sánchez lived in Guerrico, about 12 kilometers from Allen. He had to leave his house because the water was literally black. The analyzes requested by the Provincial Water Department to which Infobae accessed detected the presence of 0.10 milligrams per liter of hydrocarbons in the water that came out of their taps. There were also some chemicals that shouldn't have been in the water, like manganese, total iron, and carbonates. Other values ​​were above what is advisable, such as total hardness, bicarbonates, sulfates and PH, among others. Estela then changed the farm where she planted pears and apples for a house in the city of Allen. However, like many of his neighbors, he continues to buy bottled water. Roxana Velarde came to Allen 20 years ago. But life, he says, is no longer the same. “The first thing we start to notice are health problems. Vomiting, stomach aches, headache, sulfur smell all the time; neighbors with pancreatitis, pain very often ”, he reviewed. His case is among the most extreme: his house literally fell apart. She clarified that she is not the only one and recalled her disastrous experience. He commented that it all started when the traffic in the area by trucks became intense. The floor began to rise and the walls, to crack. Then fracking started and about six months ago his D-Day arrived. “We were all outside, drinking mate. Inside were my 3-year-old grandson and one of my sons watching television when the ceiling fell in one room and half of the living room. Luckily they were in the dining room part, otherwise I could have crushed them ”, he warned. Despite the fact that all the testimonies have many common places, unlike other places where there are environmental conflicts, in Allen there is no organization that brings together the neighbors. One of the few who promotes some kind of collective struggle is Juan Carlos Ponce, a member of the Assembly for Water. "I defend the land, because I grew up in the fields," said Ponce, a registered gas operator by profession. “Here in summer you can't breathe. But besides the pollution, the noise is unbearable. With an appeal, we obtained a fine of 2.5 million pesos to some towers for noise pollution, "he said. Although for Juan Ponce “corporate social responsibility is a bribe”, at YPF they see it as a valid strategy to interact with the community in which they carry out their activities “aimed at generating shared value, strengthening social license and employee commitment of the company ”, as explained from the company to Infobae. The YPF Foundation worked on the development of the Sustainable Allen Plan. In addition, since 2014 it has carried out 26 trainings in the area, of which 484 students participated, specializing in different areas such as construction, electricity and software. For the next four years, in addition, the company agreed with the provincial government and the municipality a works plan for more than 50 million pesos for the construction of a new bus terminal, the delivery of asphalt for street paving and the improvement of green spaces. Furthermore, the oil company has already connected 115 homes in the Costa Este neighborhood to the gas trunk network. It also delivered ovens, heaters and hot water tanks. The investment was 15 million pesos. And it plans to build a new 1,200-square-meter covered operating center to concentrate its entire operation in the province of Río Negro in Allen. However, coexistence with neighbors and production has its limits. With the premise that fracking and the cultivation of fruits, vegetables and vegetables are not compatible, in August 2013, the Allen Deliberative Council approved an ordinance prohibiting fracking in the commune's ejido and asked the provincial government to push in court a measure not to innovate. But three months later, the Rio Negro Superior Court of Justice declared the rule unconstitutional, because it considered that the province has "exclusive jurisdiction" in hydrocarbon matters. As they explained to Infobae after a request for access to information, the National Service for Agrifood Health and Quality (Senasa) does not measure the presence of substances related to the production of hydrocarbons in fruits and vegetables produced in Allen, since its controls are focus on agrochemical residues. The question is whether the hydrocarbons or chemical elements that participate in the extraction process can contaminate the production. And if anything, Senasa shouldn't control it. The Concerned Health Professionals of New York for years has published a compendium of scientific findings on fracking, the authors of which were last year in Allen. An entire chapter of the text is devoted to threats to agriculture and soil quality based on what occurred in some areas of the United States. Something that is very often found - and it is documented in California - is that several companies use the wells to eliminate fracking wastewater (flowback), which is connected to quality water sources, in which arsenic, thallium and nitrates. This technique, which is used in almost all the wells in Vaca Muerta, has generated cases of contamination, although companies assure that it is a safe method that is subject to internal and external controls. “The percentage of water that returns after being injected into the well is between 25 and 50%. It is subjected to a physical-chemical treatment process so that it reaches the values ​​of the discharge permit -injection into sinkholes- granted by the enforcement authority. This implies that the water that is injected remains with a quality of water like the one that exists in those depths, which is not drinkable in its natural condition ”, they explained from YPF. “Today almost all of the unconventional flowback waters are discharged into very deep sinkholes that in the case of Vaca Muerta exceed 1,200 meters in depth. The drinking water courses are found in that area above 450 meters and the formation that is 1200 meters away is chosen for injection because there is a geological seal that separates it from the usable aquifers. Therefore it is impossible for these waters to mix ”, they abounded from YPF. However, not everyone agrees with that idea. “When the hydraulic fracture is done, the hydrocarbon will seek the surface and the aquifer is on that path. So that there is 1700 meters of distance [between the formation and the water source] is not an impediment for the water to become contaminated, it is only a matter of time. Even the risks can happen when the company has left ”, warned the oil engineer Eduardo D´Elía, quoted by researcher Diego Rodil, in a study that was censored by the National Institute of Agricultural Technology. There are other problems detected linked to agriculture. For example, in North Dakota, because of the spills, some chloride levels were so high that they exceeded the measurement capacity of the Department of Health. In Pennsylvania, the Department of Environmental Protection found that leaks from sewage ponds contaminated the soil and groundwater. In a third study, two Colorado scientists concluded that restoring wells requires decades and intense efforts. Finally there is the problem of light pollution, since the wells are illuminated 24 hours a day. In 2015 a complaint was known that had wide repercussions, when the organic fruit producer Jessica Lamperti, from Allen, told on her Facebook account that a client from abroad had told her that she wanted “fruit free of fracking” and that she no longer I was going to buy. According to data from the National Service for Agrifood Health and Quality (Senasa), in 2008, 6,453.3 hectares of pears and apples were planted in Allen. Last year there were 5,445 hectares, that is, more than a thousand hectares less. The explanation, for Diego Rodil, is complex. He said: "There is multicausality, but bad policies towards regional economies and the free path to fracking, without consulting the public, are the main responsible." Video: Makino Collection Symposium Opening Remarks by Professor Robert Hymes (October 2020). 'Trash', a new word to name an environmental problem Top 10 animals in danger of extinction. 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After a decade of trials in real operating conditions with partner customers, Renault Trucks presents a second generation of 100% electric vehicles: Renault Master Z.E., Renault Trucks D Z.E. and Renault Trucks D Wide Z.E., a complete range from 3.5 t to 26 t for all urban uses. The Renault Trucks D and Renault Trucks D Wide Z.E. will be manufactured at the Blainville-sur-Orne plant and will be marketed in 2019, while the Renault Master Z.E. will be available in 2018. A pioneer in the field of electromobility, Renault Trucks follows the evolution of cities and markets its second generation of electric trucks. The Renault Trucks Z.E. range, consisting of the Renault Master Z.E., the Renault Trucks D Z.E. and the Renault Trucks D Wide Z.E., ranges from 3.5 t to 26 t and adapts to all urban uses, from the delivery and distribution of goods to the collection of waste. Renault Trucks has been preparing the transition to electric vehicles for 10 years For Renault Trucks, electromobility was from the beginning the answer to the problem of air quality and noise pollution in cities, and one of the answers to global CO emissions.2. For more than a decade, the manufacturer has been testing electric trucks with partner customers to gather critical information on the use, behavior of batteries, charging infrastructures and maintenance of electric trucks. These tests under real operating conditions have also enabled Renault Trucks partner customers to guide their own customers in understanding this technology. Renault Trucks also bases its expertise on several years of marketing a 100% electric truck, the Maxity Electric. «Ten years ago, we were the first to set out with the aim of opening the way for the electric truck and thus improving air quality in the city», Explains Bruno Blin, President of Renault Trucks. «Currently, our range of electric vehicles is performing well and the experts in our network are ready to accompany our customers in the transition to electromobility. Ten years ago we started up, and today we are ready. "Zero emission" trucks that enter cities without restrictions As recent technological advances now offer electric trucks the prospect of being financially profitable for transport professionals, Renault Trucks is launching a Z.E. complete. Whatever the restrictions imposed in urban areas, the vehicles in the Z.E. Renault Trucks will be able to carry out their role without interruption. They are ideal solutions to preserve air quality and reduce congestion, since they allow silent supply at flexible times and do not produce any local pollutant emissions, or CO2. Renault Trucks Master Z.E., available from September 2018 Available from September 2018, the Renault Master Z.E. it is perfectly adapted to the “last mile” distribution and allows the driver to access all urban areas, even those with traffic restrictions. It takes six hours to fully charge the battery in this 100% electric utility. The cargo volume is identical to that of a Renault Master diesel, having placed the batteries under the front seats. Available in six versions (four van versions and two platform cab versions), the Master Z.E. it will be able to respond to all the needs of professionals working in urban areas. Finally, for the sake of the most complete safety of the driver, his cargo and citizens, the Master Z.E. It is equipped as standard with a rear view camera, a reversing radar and a rear view mirror without blind spots. Renault Trucks D and Renault Trucks D Wide Z.E., for urban distribution and waste collection The Renault Trucks D Z.E. It will be available in a 16 t version optimized for urban distribution uses and distribution under controlled temperature conditions. As for the D Wide Z.E., it will be available in a 26 t version, optimized for waste collection. These two models will be manufactured at the Blainville-sur-Orne plant in Normandy, starting in the second quarter of 2019. The autonomy of the medium trucks of the Z.E. Renault Trucks can reach up to 300 km, depending on the use and configuration of the battery. Batteries effectively represent the bulk of the cost of purchasing an electric truck. In order to preserve payload and economic competitiveness, Renault Trucks will propose different range variants in order to adapt as much as possible to use. In direct current, the lithium-ion batteries in the Renault Trucks D Z.E. and the Renault Trucks D Wide Z.E. they can be fully recharged in 1 to 2 hours, using a 150 kW Combo CCS connector. For a night-time recharge with alternating current, you have to allow 12 hours for a 300 kWh battery. In this case, a 380V, 32A 3-phase industrial-grade outlet is sufficient for this load. In order to adapt to all bodies and all uses, Renault Trucks D Z.E. and Renault Trucks D Wide Z.E. They are equipped with a power take-off with a standard mechanical interface. Total authorized weight: 3.1 t Electric motor with a power of 57 kW Maximum torque: 225 Nm Maximum speed: 100 km / h Energy storage: 33 kWh lithium-ion batteries Autonomy in NDEC cycle: 200 km Real autonomy: up to 120 km Available wheelbases: 4400 mm and 5300 mm Electric motor with a power of 185 kW (continuous power of 130 kW) Maximum torque of the electric motor: 425 Nm Maximum torque at the rear axle: 16 kNm Two-speed transmission Energy storage: lithium-ion batteries from 200 to 300 kWh Real autonomy: up to 300 km Available wheelbase: 3900 mm Two electric motors with a total power of 370 kW (continuous power 260 kW) Maximum torque of electric motors: 850 Nm Maximum torque at the rear axle: 28 kNm. Two-speed transmission Energy storage: 200 kWh lithium-ion batteries. Real autonomy: up to 200 km. About Renault Trucks Heir to more than a century of experience in the French trucking sector, Renault Trucks offers transport professionals a range of vehicles (from 2.8 to 120 t) and services adapted to the distribution, construction and service industries. long distance. Robust, reliable and fuel-controlled Renault Trucks trucks provide higher productivity and lower operating costs. Renault Trucks distributes and maintains its vehicles through a network of more than 1,500 service points around the world. The design and assembly of Renault Trucks trucks, as well as the production of most of the components, are carried out in France. Renault Trucks is part of the Volvo Group, one of the world's leading manufacturers of trucks, coaches, buses, construction machines, and industrial and marine engines. The group also offers complete financing and service solutions. The Volvo Group employs around 95,000 people, has production plants in 18 countries and sells its products in more than 190 markets. In 2017, the group's sales amounted to a turnover of 35 billion euros (335 billion Swedish crowns). The Volvo Group is a listed company with its registered office in Gothenburg, Sweden. Volvo shares are listed on the Nasdaq Stockholm Stock Exchange. Video: Electric Vehicles will Destroy Big Oil and Gas Cars (October 2020). The jug that serves as a refrigerator helps girls go to school The plastic nightmare "When China wakes up ... the world will shake" The ocean is running out of breath, scientists warn

92% of the salt contains microplastics. You are literally spreading plastic over your food A study published this week in "Environmental Science & Technology" sampled salt brands from around the world and found that 92 percent contained microplastics. The problem of plastic pollution can seem really removed from everyday life, until you realize that you are literally spraying plastic on your food. A new study that tested 39 different brands of salt from around the world identified microplastics in 36 of them, or 92 percent. It's a stark reminder of how our addiction to single-use plastics is seeping into our ecosystems. "Recent studies have found plastics in shellfish, wildlife, tap water and now in salt," Mikyoung Kim, an activist for Greenpeace East Asia, who contributed to the study, said in a press release. "Clearly there is no escape from this plastics crisis, especially as it continues to seep into our waterways and oceans." The amount of plastic in salt varied widely by brand, according to the study, which was published this week in Environmental Science & Technology. There were three that had none, and some with as little as 28 pieces of microplastic per kilogram of salt, while the worst offenders had as many as 13,000 pieces of microplastic in one kilogram of salt. A graph showing the amount of microplastics in each brand of salt The concentration was higher in sea salt compared to lake salt and rock salt, and the highest levels were found in Asian brands, with Indonesia leading the concentration of microplastics. Based on these findings, the researchers estimate that the average adult consumes 2,000 pieces of microplastic each year from salt alone. When plastic pollution enters the environment, it begins to break into smaller and smaller pieces. When those fragments become so small that they are barely visible, smaller than 5 millimeters, they are considered microplastics, and they often find their way into the food we eat, the water we drink, and the salt we spread. We don't yet know what effect, if any, small pieces of plastic can consume on our bodies, but it's a safe assumption that we don't want to eat hard synthetic pieces of oil. As single-use plastics like bottled water and take-out containers have become more prolific, we've been generating millions of tons of waste each year, 91 percent of which is not recycled. If we don't want the amount of microplastics in our diet to start to rise, the best we can do is reduce our addiction to plastic. Video: Microplastics u0026 Conspiracy (October 2020).

Is it risky to kiss your pet? What happens when your dog licks your face? Your vet tells you to prevent your pets from licking the family's face. She lists the numerous parasites and bacteria possibly present in pet saliva that can affect family members. However, recent research suggests that the ancient practice of licking dogs can aid wound healing. So is pet saliva a health hazard or a benefit? The answer is probably both. However, routine veterinary care and simple sanitary practices can reduce fears that your pet's licking is a risk to family health. Why are your pet's kisses dangerous to health? The mouth and intestines of pets can harbor bacteria and parasites that can be transmitted to humans. They can cause a variety of medical conditions in humans. Diseases transmitted from animals to humans are called "zoonotic" (zo-not-ick). Bacteria: Pastuerella is a normal inhabitant of the mouth in cats and dogs that can cause skin infections, lymph nodes, and sometimes more serious infections. Bartonella henselae, a bacterium that is transmitted to cats from infected fleas through their feces. It is the cause of a serious infection of the skin and lymph nodes called cat scratch fever. The Center for Disease Control reports that most pastuerella and bartonella infections are the result of scratches. Little data is available to substantiate that being licked by a pet is an important means of infection. Salmonella, E. coli, Clostridia, and Campylobacter are intestinal bacteria from pets that can cause serious intestinal diseases in humans. Pets can be symptom free and pass these bacteria in their feces (poop). Most human infections are generally due to oral contact of hands contaminated by pet feces or feces. Because pets lick their anus, these bacteria can also be present in their mouths. Facial and lip licking is a potential route of infection from pet to human. Again, there is little evidence that this is actually an important transmission medium. Parasites: Pets are hosts for many parasitic worms and single-celled parasites. Human infection by these parasites can lead to intestinal diseases, skin problems, blindness, and brain disorders. Pets can live with these parasites in their intestines without signs of disease. But the eggs that pass in the feces of pets can infect humans. Like bacteria, the main route of infection in humans is fecal-oral. Pets that have licked their anus can pass parasite eggs to humans during facial licking. With the exception of two single-celled parasites, Giardia and Cryptosporidia, this type of infection is not likely. Most parasite eggs are not infectious directly from the anus. They must undergo a maturation period in feces or contaminated environment to infect humans. Transmission to humans would require dogs to lick human faces after having bitten or eaten feces that were one to 21 days old, depending on the parasite. Because cats are not fecal eaters (coprophagic), humans are unlikely to be infected with parasites from their cats. Giardia and Cryptosporidia are immediately infectious so they could potentially be transmitted through a lick. The benefits of pet saliva The belief in the healing power of a dog's licking dates back to ancient Egypt and persisted through time. In modern France, a medical saying translates to "The language of a dog is the language of a physician." Recent research has identified products in saliva that actually aid healing. Researchers in the Netherlands identified a chemical in pet saliva called histatins. Histatins accelerate wound healing by promoting the spread and migration of new skin cells. Dr Nigel Benjamin from the London School of Medicine has shown that when saliva comes into contact with the skin, it creates nitric oxide. Nitric oxide inhibits bacterial growth and protects wounds from infection. Researchers at the University of Florida isolated a protein in saliva called nerve growth factor that cuts wound healing time in half. Prudent precautions with pet saliva The risk of bacterial or parasitic infection from pets is greatest for very young children, the elderly, and immunosuppressed individuals receiving chemotherapy or suffering from AIDS. People with healthy immune systems are unlikely to be infected. Despite the relatively low risk of infection from pets, some sensible precautions on the part of pet owners are in order. The Companion Animal Parasite Council recommends: Regular deworming programs Annual pet fecal exams with appropriate deworming treatment Treatment to control fleas and ticks Daily removal of pet feces and compliance with pooper-scooper laws Covering children's litter boxes when not in use Feeding cooked, canned, or dry pet food Washing or cooking vegetables for human consumption Proper hand washing after exposure to feces or fecal contamination. Video: NEVER DO THIS TO YOUR DOG! (October 2020).

The director of the Institute of Social and Environmental Health (UNR), Damián Verzeñassi, will present to a specialized committee of the United Nations the experience of the health camps carried out in Santa Fe and Entre Ríos. The work in the camps shows the direct relationship between diseases and the agro-industrial model that generates them. “Hopefully this recognition that I have to live as a representative of the UNR team will help the authorities understand that our work is not against them, but in favor of the peoples, and that necessary and urgent dialogues be resumed to advance in the defense of the community health ”, confided the researcher. Verzeñassi's presentation will be as a member of the work team and director of the Instituto de Salud Socioambiental, which depends on the Faculty of Medical Sciences of the National University of Rosario (UNR). It will be in Munich (Germany) before a UN committee where they will give details about the field work and the results of the Health Camps developed in the 37 towns and cities of Santa Fe and Entre Ríos, and the relationship between the pathologies detected and the agro-industrial model. The doctor and teacher will also speak on the subject before the European Parliament in Brussels and will participate in Geneva in a work in the Society of Critical Scientists of Switzerland with the director of Monograph 112 of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC for its acronym) in English), which was the work by which the herbicide glyphosate was reclassified as a probable human carcinogen. Verzeñassi's participation is framed in the 64th meeting of the UN Committee for Economic, Social, Cultural and Human Rights. The first major activity on his agenda was this Friday at the presentation, in the German city of Munich, of the film Glyphosate in front of its judges by Marie-Monique Robin, which recounts what happened at the 2016 Monsanto International Court, where the Rosario doctor was invited to testify as a witness. Later he participated in meetings with agroecological producers in the Bavarian area. As of Monday Verzeñassi will be in Geneva for the presentation before the UN committee. The itinerary will be completed with meetings with members of the European Parliament and personalities such as Jean Ziegler, the author of The New Masters of the World. They will also participate in meetings with the Austrian and German ministers of the Environment and Agro-industry and with European parliamentarians before the official meeting to be held in Brussels (Netherlands). He will eventually return to Switzerland to work with the scientists who participated in the glyphosate reclassification work. Argentine reality: In a talk that the physician had withThe capital Prior to his trip, he stated that "this invitation is a recognition of the work done by the entire teaching team of the Institute of Socio-Environmental Health, since it is not possible to support everything we do if it were not collectively." Verzeñassi reported that they received as "a real surprise" the invitation of a German organization that works as an advisor to the UN councils to participate in the presentation that the Argentine government will make this year before the UN Committee for Economic and Social Rights. Cultural and Human, regarding their policies on these issues. “Specifically, the lawyer Juan Ignacio Pereyra —who also participated in the Monsanto Tribunal— and me as a representative of the medical part were asked to present an alternative report on the impacts on human, economic and social rights of the agroindustrial policy of the Argentine government. For this reason, Juan Ignacio focused on the legal part and I addressed the health issue, presenting the results of all the health camps carried out, contextualized in the process of the prevailing production model in the country ”. This meeting of the UN Committee for Human Rights takes place at the juncture of a discussion that is taking place throughout Europe on transgenics and the need for their labeling in foods that contain them. In addition, in France, the glyphosate ban is being discussed with obvious political tensions between the defenders of the law promoted by Prime Minister Emmanuel Macron and members of the same ruling party who voted against the ban and that it was a real scandal. European raid: The doctor from Rosario will present, together with Pereyra, the Argentine reality in health matters on Monday and Tuesday of next week before the members of the aforementioned UN committee. After a series of meetings and conferences to be held in Austria, Germany and Switzerland, the itinerary of Argentine professionals will continue in Brussels, in mid-October, with a presentation before the members of the European Parliament on “a report on the impact it has on Argentine health, this model that combines GMOs and pesticides ”. In addition, between October 13 and 22, Verzeñassi will be in Zurich meeting with Christopher Portier, who is the epidemiologist who directed the monograph 112 of the IARC, the scientific work that allowed the reclassification of glyphosate as a probable human carcinogen. Together with Portier, Verzeñassi will develop a research work based on the results of the health camps. They will also lay the groundwork for replicating a line of work similar to health camps in Europe. “This type of calls and recognition, by the recognized world scientific community, organizations such as the UN or members of the European Parliament, highlight the importance and value of field work carried out in health camps and that many Sometimes in our country there is no real dimension of its scope. It happens to us that while in Argentina we are attacked for making visible information that is not pleasant and that we collect from the citizens themselves, instead of dealing with the problem, the authorities end up wanting to kill the messenger. However, this recognition of our work strengthens us and supports the seriousness and rigor with which we work from the public university ”, expressed Verzeñassi. Video: Post-Emerge Soybean Herbicides #1051 Air Date 5-27-18 (October 2020). 9 tips not to hate (so much) on Mondays The roots of lasting peace are intertwined with the earth

Pollution kills 9 million people each year, more than any disease Polluted air, water and soil are responsible for the premature death of 9 million people each year according to research published in The Lancet. Deaths from pollution exceed those from war, hunger, AIDS or malaria. Most deaths are caused by pollution-related illnesses, such as stroke, heart disease, and lung cancer. Deaths occur in higher percentage in developing countries due to the rapid advance of industrialization, but the slow regulation of these activities in environmental matters. Given that nearly all of these deaths (92%) occur in low- and middle-income countries, and that pollution disproportionately affects the poor and marginalized in every country in the world, the report's authors aim to end the neglect of the issue everywhere. the political spectrum and mobilize the will, resources and leadership necessary to confront them. But pollution doesn't just affect people, the report warns. It also impacts the planet's ecosystems because it is closely linked to climate change. A fact: the burning of fossil fuels is responsible for 80% of the pollution produced in the form of dust suspended in the air and for almost all the pollution caused by sulfur and nitrogen oxides. The most important sulfur oxides in terms of air pollution are sulfur dioxide, SO2, and sulfur trioxide, SO3. Nitrogen oxides are one of the most polluting groups. The most important are nitrogen dioxide, NO2 and nitric oxide, NO. For its part, coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel in the world and its combustion is one of the main causes of both pollution and climate change. “Pollution is much more than an environmental challenge: it is a deep and omnipresent threat that affects many aspects of human health and well-being. It deserves the full attention of international leaders, civil society, healthcare professionals and people around the world, ”notes the Commission's co-leader, Professor Philip Landrigan, of the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. , USA, in a statement. “Despite its far-reaching effects on health, the economy and the environment, pollution has been neglected in international assistance and on global health agendas, and some control strategies have been underfunded. Our goal is to raise global awareness of the importance of pollution and mobilize the political will to tackle it by providing the most comprehensive estimates of pollution and health available. ” Video: Air Pollution. #aumsum #kids #science #education #children (October 2020). Garbage problems: causes, effects and solutions Lactose intolerance. This is what you should know Planting trees doesn't prevent climate change, but it can save us from being burned to death Is it the end of straws, cutlery and plastic plates in Europe?

Latest report: World towards an irreversible state of ‘greenhouse’ The world is at risk of entering "greenhouse" conditions where average global temperatures will be 4 to 5 degrees Celsius even if emission reduction targets in a global climate agreement are met, scientists said in a study published Monday. The report comes amid a heat wave that has pushed temperatures above 40 ° C (104 Fahrenheit) in Europe this summer, leading to droughts and wildfires, including fires in Greece in July that killed 91 people. About 200 countries agreed in 2015 to limit temperature rise to "well below" 2C (3.6F) above pre-industrial levels, a threshold believed to be a tipping point for the climate. However, it is not clear if the global climate can be safely 'parked' about 2ºC above pre-industrial levels or if this could trigger other processes that cause further warming even if the world stops emitting greenhouse gases. , according to research. Currently, global average temperatures are a little more than 1ºC above the pre-industrial period and increase to 0.17ºC every decade. Scientists from the Stockholm Resilience Center, the University of Copenhagen, the Australian National University and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said it is likely that if a critical threshold is crossed, several tipping points will lead to abrupt change. Such processes include permafrost thawing; the loss of methane hydrates from the ocean floor; weaker terrestrial and oceanic carbon sinks; the loss of Arctic summer sea ice and the reduction of Antarctic sea ice and polar ice sheets. “These turning items can potentially act like a row of dominoes. Once it is pushed, it pushes the Earth towards another, ”said Johan Rockström, co-author of the report published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and executive director of the Stockholm Resilience Center. “It can be very difficult or impossible to prevent the entire row of dominoes from falling apart. Places on Earth will become uninhabitable if 'Hothouse Earth' becomes a reality, ”he said. Maximizing the chances of avoiding this "greenhouse" state requires more than simply reducing greenhouse gas emissions, according to the report. For example, improved management of forests, agriculture and soil; conservation of biodiversity and technologies that remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and store it underground are necessary. Commenting on the research, some experts said that runaway warming remains uncertain but not implausible. "In the context of the summer of 2018, this is definitely not a crying wolf case, which raises a false alarm: the wolves are now in sight," said Phil Williamson, a climate researcher at the University of East Anglia. Video: . report warns on the impacts of climate change (October 2020). Blueberries, all its properties and a rich recipe

EFSA confirms that pesticides put bees (and life on the planet) at risk Europe's food safety watchdog confirmed previous concerns that wild bees and bees are put at risk by three pesticides from a group known as neonicotinoids, prompting an EU-level ban on the use of The chemists. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) report, which covers wild bees and bees and includes a systematic review of scientific evidence published since EFSA's 2013 assessment, is seen as crucial in determining whether the European moratorium on the use neonicotinoids is still in effect. The updated risk assessment found variations due to factors such as species of bees, exposure and specific pesticides, "but in general the risk for the three types of bees that we have evaluated is confirmed," said Dr. José Tarazona, head of the EFSA pesticides unit. The European Union has had a moratorium on the use of neonicotinoids, manufactured and sold by various companies, including Bayer and Syngenta, since 2014 after laboratory research pointed to potential risks to bees, which are crucial for crop pollination. EU nations will discuss a proposal from the European Commission to ban three neonicotinoids next month at the Standing Committee on Plant Animal Feeding and Food. "This is strengthening the scientific basis for the Commission's proposal to ban the outdoor use of the three neonicotinoids," said a spokeswoman for the EU executive. Chemical companies have argued that the real-world evidence is not there to blame a global drop in bee numbers in recent years on neonicotinoid pesticides alone. They say that it is a complex phenomenon caused by a number of factors. The industry lobby said that while it allows a risk to bees to exist, EFSA has exaggerated it. He argued that any risk can be managed and that a ban would cause more harm by forcing farmers to extend farmland. "Farmers need access to a wide range of tools to protect their crops," said Graeme Taylor of the European Crop Protection Association. Two major field studies in Europe and Canada published last year that sought to examine real-world effects yielded mixed results. They found some negative effects after exposure to neonicotinoids in wild and honey bee populations, as well as some positive aspects, depending on the environmental context. Environmental advocates said the study confirmed that regulators should act to ban the use of neonicotinoids. "National governments must stop the hesitation to avoid the catastrophic collapse of bee populations," said Franziska Achterberg, EU food policy adviser at Greenpeace. The EFSA report examined in detail three specific neonicotinoids, clothianidin, imidacloprid and thiamethoxam, and evaluated the exposure of bees to them through three routes: residues in bee pollen and nectar, drift from dust during planting or seed application. treated and water consumption. Some scenarios, such as when pesticides are used on crops inside glass greenhouses, present a low risk to bees, Dr. Tarazona told Reuters. However, others, such as the use of neonicotinoids in flowering field crops that attract bees, are high risk. He said EFSA's findings would now be shared with EC risk managers and later with EU member states, who will decide on any potential changes to current restrictions. Video: How Do Honeybees Get Their Jobs? National Geographic (October 2020).

It is not enough for transgenic companies to have a monopoly on commercial seeds and invade our fields and food. In addition, they want less and less regulations and incidentally to deceive people with other names for their new biotechnologies, trying to separate them from the generalized rejection of transgenics. They are also aggressively advancing in the attempt to manipulate not only crops, but also wild species, to do genetic engineering of ecosystems, which could cause the disappearance of entire species. All these strategic guidelines of the transnational biotechnology industry are reflected in the new regulations that the Brazilian Biosafety Commission (CNTBio) approved on January 15, 2018. With it, the CNTBio opened the doors for products derived from what they call innovative enhancement technologies. precision, can be considered non-GMO (genetically modified organisms) and reach the field and consumers without going through biosecurity evaluation or labeling. The strategy that products of new biotechnologies are not considered GMOs to evade biosafety laws is not new. In the United States, it has already been applied in some products, such as mushrooms manipulated with CRISPR-Cas9 biotechnology. In Europe, the discussion has been going on for a couple of years and has not yet been resolved, although everything indicates that the European Union will not allow them to evade the regulation, on the contrary, it could result in changes to the laws to make more demanding risk assessments, due to the new threats that these present. On the contrary, Argentina introduced in 2015 a very general and lax regulation, which allows exempting the products of several new biotechnologies from biosafety evaluation. (MagazineBiodiversity87, 2016, https://tinyurl.com/ybhxu4g9). What is new and very worrying with the resolution of the CNTBio in Brazil that also explicitly creates a channel to approve the field release of genetic drivers, which he calls genetic redirection techniques, but to leave no doubts he also writes it in English:gene drives. It is the first country in the world to establish channels to release this highly dangerous type of GMO into the environment. It is a technology designed to deceive the natural laws of heredity, causing all the progeny of plants, insects and other animals that are manipulated with gene drives (gene drives), they forcibly pass these modified genes on to all of their progeny. If the manipulation is to produce, for example, only males (which they are already trying with insects, mice and plants), the population - or even the species - could quickly become extinct (https://tinyurl.com/y8clpzpa). Once released into the environment, living beings that have been manipulated with this technology will not respect borders, so the countries bordering Brazil should worry about this threat right away. All the new biotechnologies that are included in these Brazilian and Argentine regulations are forms of genetic engineering that involve new risks and uncertainties. The fact that genes from other species have or have not been inserted - as is the case with transgenics already in the field - or that the insertion is in a more exact place, as the industry claims, does not mean that they do not involve risks, even greater than those that exist. Dr. Ricarda Steinbrecher, from the German Federation of Scientists, explains that they are still artificial changes to the genomes of organisms, about whose functions there are large gaps in knowledge. Off-target gene insertion or silencing can occur - activating or deactivating important functions in organisms - that will produce unpredictable impacts on organisms, the environment and consumption. (https://tinyurl.com/ybwcvq52) As in Argentina, this decision in Brazil, which involves so many risks, was taken as a simple administrative decision by a technical commission - in which the transgenic industry has a heavy influence - without consulting the farmers, consumers and many others who may be affected, or go through legislative bodies. Faced with this situation, the largest rural movements and organizations in Brazil, gathered in the National Articulation of Rural, Water and Forest Workers and Peoples - a broad coordination that includes the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) and the National Articulation Agroecology among 19 other national organizations - issued a public letter of complaint and protest, in which they reject the CNTBio decision and warn that Brazil would become the first country in the world to consider the release of genetic drivers, a technology that has not been allowed in no other country, and that the United Nations even considers a biological weapon. (Brasil de Fato, 2/6/18, https://tinyurl.com/y8wcuxen). They also point out that gene drives, a technology funded mainly by the United States Army and the Gates Foundation, (https://tinyurl.com/yahkzdnz), will mainly favor agribusiness transnationals that seek with this technology to restore the susceptibility of Invasive herbs that have become resistant to their pesticides, to increase their sales and, incidentally, the devastating impacts of these on health, land and water. Or they could seek to extinguish what companies consider pests the fields, which would have very negative impacts on ecosystems and peasant and agroecological farming systems. This measure in Brazil is just the beginning of what could continue in other countries. It is urgent to prepare and, as in Brazil, to resist these new traps of the transgenic industries. Silvia Ribeiro. Researcher of the ETC Group, published in La Jornada, Mexico Video: Gene Knockout, Gene Knockdown and Gene Knockin (October 2020). Tips to maintain your mental health in a polluted world

Inside the house, mites accumulate, one of the oldest animals on the planet, they are tiny and can cause multiple allergies and diseases. They are animals that belong to the class of arachnids and that are usually parasites, they can live on land or in water. They feed on human or animal skin scales. A person sheds a total of approximately one gram of skin per day. To combat them, you can prepare this effective homemade solution: an insecticide spray to apply on fabrics and corners of the house. To make an anti-mite spray you need: A spray bottle, 1/2 cup of alcohol, 1/2 cup of distilled water, 30 drops of essential oils (lavender, lemon, cinnamon, eucalyptus, cypress, etc.) Mix all the ingredients in the spray bottle and spray all the places that mites frequent such as pillows, mattresses, curtains and anywhere that accumulates dust. After applying the spray for the first time, the mite population will be considerably reduced. To keep the house free of mites, the spray should be reapplied periodically every two or three months. Another excellent option is essential oils, which can be diffused in the rooms daily with essential oils of eucalyptus, lavender, mint, pepper or pine. With this we not only get rid of these annoying animals but also breathe fresh air and a excellent aroma. An excellent blend of fennel, anise, clove, verneine, thyme and lavender spray, sprayed on bedding and carpets, it also helps eliminate mites throughout the bedroom. In addition, it leaves the environments with an excellent aroma and the atmosphere is perceived much cleaner and fresher. These mixtures being highly concentrated substances take precautions and preferably that the application is made by a person who does not suffer from any allergies. Note: It is recommended to do this action in the absence of children or pregnant women, let the mixture dry and evaporate for half an hour before coming into contact with the garments sprayed with this mixture. Video: Pour Baking Soda on Your Bed, and See What Happens (October 2020).

Indigenous people, first victims of the new government in Brazil "We have already been decimated, protected and victims of the integrationist policy of governments and the National State," recalled indigenous leaders, to reject the proposals and measures of the new Brazilian government on indigenous peoples. In an open letter to President Jair Bolsonaro, leaders of the Aruak Baniwa and Apurinã peoples, who live in the basins of the Negro and Purus rivers, in the northwestern Amazon region of Brazil, protested against the decree that now submits indigenous lands to the Ministry of Agriculture, manager of interests contrary to those of original inhabitants. The indigenous people will probably represent the most flammable resistance to the offensive of the new far-right government in Brazil, which took office on January 1 and whose first measures tend to dismantle advances during the last three decades in favor of the 305 indigenous peoples registered in this country. For that they have article 231 of the Brazilian Constitution, in force since 1988, which assures them "original rights over the lands they traditionally occupy", in addition to recognizing "their social organization, customs, languages, beliefs and traditions." Added to that are international rules ratified by the country, such as Convention 169 on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples of the International Labor Organization, which defends indigenous rights and conditions projects that affect them on prior, free and informed consultation with threatened communities. The most fierce resistance to the construction of hydroelectric plants that dam large Amazonian rivers was indigenous, especially that of Belo Monte, built on the Xingu River between 2011 and 2016 and whose turbines are scheduled to finish installation this year. Taking away from the National Indigenous Foundation (Funai) the competence to legally identify and demarcate the so-called Indigenous Lands, transferring it to the Ministry of Agriculture, means that the definition of new areas will stagnate and those already established will be put in danger. There will be a review of the demarcations of indigenous lands made in the last 10 years, announced the new Secretary of Land Affairs of that ministry, Luiz Nabhan García, who is now responsible for the issue. García is the leader of the Unión Democrática Ruralista, a collective of landowners, especially cattle ranchers, protagonist of frequent and violent conflicts over land. Bolsonaro himself already announced his intention to review the area of ​​Raposa Serra do Sol, an indigenous land approved in 2005, amid legal battles that ended in 2009 with a ruling by the Supreme Federal Court, which recognized the validity of the demarcation. This indigenous territory covers 17,474 square kilometers and about 20,000 inhabitants of five different ethnic groups, in the northern state of Roraima, on the border with Guyana and Venezuela. In Brazil there are currently 486 homologated Indigenous Lands, that is, with the demarcation process fully concluded, and 235 units still to be demarcated, of which 118 are in the identification phase, 43 already identified and 74 declared. "The rulers speak, but reviewing would require constitutional changes or the verification of frauds and vices in the process that do not seem usual," said Adriana Ramos, director of the Socio-environmental Institute, a non-governmental organization with a broad and respected indigenous and environmental performance. “There have already been setbacks in the first decisions of the government, with the decline of the indigenous body and separation of its functions. The Ministry of Health also announced changes in the policy towards the indigenous population, without presenting proposals, threatening to worsen what is already bad, ”he told IPS from Brasilia. "The trend is to paralyze the land demarcation process, which was already very slow in previous governments" and the worst thing is that the declarations against rights "act as a trigger for violations that aggravate conflicts, generating insecurity among indigenous peoples," he warned Ramos. In the first days of the year, and under the Bolsonaro government, loggers already invaded the indigenous land of the Arara people, near Belo Monte, with the risk of armed confrontations, he said. The indigenous people of the Guaraní people, the second largest indigenous group in the country -behind the Tikuna, who live in the north-, are the most vulnerable to the situation, especially their communities established in the central-eastern state of Mato Grosso do Sul. They are fighting for the demarcation of various lands and the expansion of those already demarcated into insufficient areas, and in that struggle they have already suffered the murder of dozens of leaders, while they endure increasingly precarious survival conditions. “The serious situation gets worse with the new government. They hang us by dividing Funai and attributing the demarcation to the Ministry of Agriculture, led by ruralistas, number one enemies of the indigenous people, ”summarized Inaye Gomes Lopes, a young indigenous teacher who lives in the Ñanderu Marangatu Village, in Mato Grosso do Sul near the border with Paraguay. Funai maintains its welfare and rights defense functions but is now subordinate to the new Ministry of Women, Family and Human Rights, led by Damares Alves, a lawyer and evangelical pastor with controversial opinions. “We only have eight demarcated lands in the state and one was annulled (in December). What we have is due to many who died, without their murderers being imprisoned, ”said Lopes, who teaches classes at a school that honors Marçal de Souza, a Guarani leader assassinated in 1982, in an indigenous language. “We look for ways to resist and‘ supporters ’, even international ones. I'm worried, I don't sleep at night, ”she told IPS in a dialogue from her village regarding the new government, whose demonstrations regarding indigenous people she considers“ an injustice to us ”. Bolsonaro advocates the "integration" of the indigenous, with what refers to assimilation with white society, an old and outdated claim of the white elite. He condemned that indigenous people continue to live "as in zoos," occupying "15 percent of the national territory," when, according to his data, they add up to less than one million people, in a country of 109 million inhabitants. "We are not the ones who have a large part of the Brazilian territory, but the large landowners, ruralistas, agribusiness and others who own more than 60 percent of the national territory," countered the public letter from the Baniwa and Apurinã peoples. In reality, indigenous lands account for 13 percent of Brazil and 90 percent are located in the Amazon, the signers of the manifesto corrected. "We are not manipulated by NGOs (non-governmental organizations)", they responded to another accusation "fruit of prejudices" of the president. The paranoia of some military leaders, such as the Minister of the Institutional Security Cabinet, retired General Augusto Heleno Pereira, is that the inhabitants of Indigenous Lands under the influence of NGOs declare the independence of their territories, moving away from Brazil. The fear is mainly due, it is adduced, to border areas and, worse, to those occupied by peoples that live on both sides of the border, such as the Yanomami, who distribute their population between Brazil and Venezuela. But in Ramos's view, it is not the groups of military descent who share power in the Bolsonaro government, such as the generals who occupy five ministries, the vice presidency and other important functions, that most threaten indigenous rights. Many active military personnel have indigenous people in their troops and recognize a relevant role of the natives in defending the borders, he argued. It is the ruralistas, who covet indigenous lands, and the leaders of evangelical churches, with their aggressive preaching, who constitute the most violent threats, he ruled. For other sectors, such as the quilombolas (Afro-descendant communities), the landless peasants and the NGOs, adverse times also began. Bolsonaro announced that his government will not hand over "an inch of land" to both indigenous and quilombolas and will treat as terrorists those who invade haciendas or other properties. NGOs are threatened by the government with “supervision and monitoring”. But "the laws are clear about their rights to organize," as well as the autonomy of those who do not receive state financial contributions, Ramos recalled. Video: Uncontacted Tribes - 5 Most Mysterious and Recently Discovered (October 2020). 8 out of 10 consumers are not interested if what they buy is sustainable

For just a few decades, humans have dumped tons upon tons of garbage into the ocean. One of the most devastating elements of this pollution is that plastics take thousands of years to decompose. As a result, fish and wildlife are being poisoned. Consequently, toxins from plastics have entered the food chain, threatening human health. In the most polluted places in the ocean, the mass of plastic exceeds the amount of plankton six times. This is great evidence that makes the problem of polluted oceans undeniable. It's annoying that no more cleaning efforts are being made. This case study is part of a collection of pages developed by students in the 2012 Introductory Course to Geology and Human Health at the Department of Earth Sciences, Montana State University. Learn more about this project. The three plastic islands The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also known as the Vortex or Pacific Garbage Gyre, is located in the central North Pacific Ocean and is larger than the state of Texas. There are also garbage patches in the Indian and Atlantic oceans. Patches are defined as containing a greater amount of plastic compared to the surrounding oceans. To date, five patches in total have been discovered. Plastics are transported and converged in the ocean where the currents meet. This means that huge islands of plastic accumulate as a result. Scientists from SES (Sea Education Society) studied plastics in the Atlantic and calculated that there are 580,000 pieces of plastic per square kilometer. Sources of plastic toxins entering the ocean food chain As for the plastic that enters the ocean, approximately 20% of the garbage comes from ships and platforms that are offshore. The rest of the sources of garbage thrown into the sea, collected by the tides on the beach, or the intentional dumping of garbage. The worst part is that these plastics do not biodegrade, so they break into small pieces that are consumed by fish and marine mammals. The plastic is killing more than 100,000 sea turtles and birds a year through ingestion and entanglement. The chemicals in plastics are released into the water and into the atmosphere. Fish are easily contaminated by chemicals in the water. This is a direct link to how plastic chemicals enter the food chain. See Earth Times for more information on this. Plastics reach humans impacting health Different plastics are scattered throughout the ocean. As the Styrofoam breaks into smaller pieces, the components sink into the ocean, so the pollutant spreads throughout the sea column. In fact, the toxins in plastic not only affect the ocean but act like sponges, they also absorb other toxins from external sources before entering the ocean. Since these chemicals are ingested by animals in the ocean, this is not good for humans. We as humans ingest contaminated fish and mammals. For more on this topic on toxins in the ocean, check out this National Geographic article. National Geographic There are different ways that plastic is dangerous to humans. The direct toxicity of plastics comes from lead, cadmium, and mercury. These toxins have also been found in many fish in the ocean, which is very dangerous for humans. Diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP) contained in some plastics is a toxic carcinogen. Other toxins in plastics are directly linked to cancers, birth defects, immune system problems, and childhood development problems. To learn more about the effects of plastics on humans, visit the Center for Ecology Other types of toxic plastics are BPA or Bisphenol-A, along with phthalates (mentioned above). Both are of great concern to human health. BPA is used in many things, including plastic bottles and food packaging materials. Over time, the polymer chains of BPA break down and can enter the human body in many ways, from drinking contaminated water to eating a fish that is exposed to degraded toxins. Specifically, BPA is a chemical known to interfere with human hormonal function. Rolf Halden, an associate professor in the School of Sustainable Engineering and Arizona State University, has studied the adverse effects of plastics on humans and has thus far concluded that it is nearly impossible to determine the exact profile of plastics. effects of plastics on human health. This is due to the fact that the problem of plastic pollution in humans is spreading globally; There are almost no unexposed subjects. That said, it is clear that chemicals are not healthy for humans. To learn more about Halden's studies on plastics at Arizona State University, see Impacts of plastics on human health and ecosystems. Contamination prevention As Rolf Halden states, the only way to decrease this unsustainable plastic production would be a global change in the use of oil, due to environmental concerns. About 8% of the world's oil use comes from the manufacture of plastics. When it comes to protecting yourself from contamination, it is probably best not to have a diet that consists mainly of fish, as most of it is probably contaminated. However, one of the most effective things we can all do as members of this fragile ecosystem is to be responsible for our trash. When we have the opportunity, we should try to avoid buying products packaged in plastic. We must always recycle plastic when we use it. At the store, ask for a paper bag instead of plastic, or bring your own. Use a reusable water bottle, and of course, don't litter. The role that humans play Quoted by the Executive Director of the United Nations Environment Program, Achim Steiner, "Marine litter, the litter in our oceans, is a symptom of our throwaway society and our approach to how we use our natural resources." Our tendency as humans to be irresponsible about cleaning up after ourselves is about to get us in trouble. We risk losing many species in the ocean and negatively affect ourselves. The average person produces half a pound of plastic waste each day. No wonder the oceans are filling with waste! I think part of the problem is that we don't recognize that it starts with the individual. Obviously, there are lifestyle changes we can make to solve this problem. We just have to be willing to accept this problem and look beyond our denial. The government also needs to make regulations on plastics if something is to change. Surprisingly, there is little to no information on government websites about pollution in the oceans. I think they are afraid to tackle the problem; It is an expensive solution. However, some treaties have been formed to minimize the amount of garbage that enters the oceans. This is still not enough. To see more about EPA laws and treaties, visit the US Environmental Protection Agency These grassroots organizations are vital to the protection of the oceans, striving for information on this tragic pollution. However, we should all be involved, it is everyone's responsibility. Let's make these changes before it's too late and kill all ocean life, or even our own. Related links I found this website helpful in describing the how marine waste has compiled into the different plastic islands. 2. Plastic Contamination in the Atlantic Ocean Earth Times, Kirsten E. Silven This web article speaks specifically to the Atlantic garbage patch and plastic pollution in the ocean. 3. Plastic Breaks Down in Ocean, After All- And Fast National Geographic An article discussing how plastic breaks down in the ocean and is ingested by sea birds, asserts that humans will as well be affected by the toxins. This article provides useful information about the human tendency to waste and pollute and how it is affecting the planet and its species. Discussing the health impacts that plastics have on humans, this article discusses the dangers in different plastic chemicals. 6. Impacts of plastics on human health and ecosystems News Medical 7. http://www.projectgreenbag.com/news/how-does-plastic-get-into-the-ocean ‘Project GreenBag’ Video: Worlds Longest Subsea Pipeline. Megastructures. Free Documentary (October 2020).

As the UK moves forward with its project to ban single-use plastic products, the first paper straw factory in decades opens to meet consumer demand. Transcend Packaging, the owner and operator of the new plant, has already reached out to 1,361 McDonald’s restaurants across the UK, as well as a few other restaurant chains, to supply straws in a more environmentally friendly way. "We saw a great opportunity and we seized it," Mark Varney, Transcend Packaging's director of sales and marketing, told The Guardian, this idea came after the BBC's Blue Planet II was on TV and the government started talking. From the dangers of plastic straws, in this way the idea was presented in the market, due to the change in British plastic policy, that niche could soon become a national industry. Even before the national plastics ban, companies were inclined to use more environmentally friendly products, although the purchase of these products was not necessarily sustainable. "It's great that all of these companies are phasing out plastic straws, but the problem for them was where to get the paper ones," Varney said. "Everybody has to import them from China, and when you look at the carbon footprint of that purchase, your benefit is eliminated." Thus was born the Transcend Packaging factory. Varney continued: "We created this company to give customers what they really want: biodegradable paper straws made in the UK." Although paper straws are more expensive than plastic ones, there are numerous benefits that are not reflected in the purchase price. For example, “McDonald’s understood the huge difference to the environment,” Varney said, and hugged a paper straw to strengthen its public image by helping to reduce pollution. In Mexico The Mexican company Biofase has done its bit by creatingstraws that degrade in 240 days with the avocado seed and not in almost 100 years like the plastic ones. The one-of-a-kind bioplastic plant, based in Michoacán, was born in 2012, whenScott Munguía, a Chemical Engineering student at Tecnológico de Monterrey, realized that thanks to the properties of avocado seeds, they can be transformed into biodegradable plastic. Although tests were also made on seeds of fruits such as mamey or mango, none contained the necessary element. The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) launched the Clean Seas campaign in Indonesia, raising awareness of the threat that plastic straws pose to ecosystems and species. According to UNEP, in the last 50 years the world production of plastics has multiplied 20 times, about 320 million tons in that period, of which 8 million reached the oceans. The Ministry of the Environment (Semarnat) joined the global efforts through the campaign "No straw is fine", to inform society about the environmental impact of these products and reduce their consumption. The campaign spreads phrases like"A single NO can save millions of species"Say no to the use of the straw ”,"At our table for 20 minutes, in our seas for 100 years". What Biofase does is extract the molecule from the avocado seed, it is synthesized to become a biopolymer, it is molded and biodegradable plastic is obtained. Currently, the company generates 130 tons of biodegradable product per month. Of these, 80% are for export and 40% are straws. Most of the product is shipped to the United States under the Avoplant brand,Canada, Costa Rica, Colombia and Peru. Video: biodegradable paper drinking straw making machine (October 2020). Impact of cigarette butts on the environment Happiness to use and throw away. Consumerism feeds on isolation What vitamins do you need in your 20s, 30s and 40s Can ditching meat and dairy open up new taste sensations? My first week as a vegan Almost three years without producing garbage, this young Mexican made it

There is a war that Man has fought for several hundred years. It is a silent war - or rather silenced - in which, contradictorily, winning means losing. This war has been fought on a global scale, but its biggest battles are being fought every day in the Northern Hemisphere. Its beginning, we could say that it was between the years 1760 and 1780 in England, where the mechanization of production began to be sought in order to make it faster and more abundant. For this, large machines were necessary and coal was the source of energy used par excellence. From that moment hundreds of thousands of small battles give way to the "World Crusade of Man against Earth", a war of self-destruction against its own habitat in which it attacks and destroys its natural food sources, oxygen production and of drinking water reserves necessary for life. This is a war that we are all part of, in which we use our own weapons of mass destruction on a daily basis, so massive that they are destroying every living thing on Earth. The car, the refrigerator or the air conditioning equipment, with the technologies that have been applied until now and just to name a few examples, added to the excessive and irresponsible consumerism, cause a negative effect on the planet's ecosystem. Of course, these are not the only weapons we have, as worthy superior beings we have perfected our firepower so that there is no possibility that we lose (win) this war. We have and use the best technology to create our ecological pumps, such as oil spills, open-pit mining, nuclear power plants, mega-dams; We have even been perfecting for some time the way of genetically modifying directly or by contagion, everything that survives so that this insolent Nature will not believe that something can escape us. As if this were not enough, the United States and its temporary allies are determined to accelerate this process of self-destruction, devastating entire towns only to satisfy their supposed economic, geopolitical or strategic needs as they did with Vietnam and many other countries, as they do today. in Iraq and as tomorrow they will do it in one of our countries. We must stop that war that we are unfortunately winning (losing) and the only way to do it is to make a very big turnaround in the course that human development has taken, because if it is not environmentally sustainable, if we do not have the precaution of using without extinguishing , to produce without polluting, to consume in a responsible way; if we don't end the missile, bomb and depleted uranium wars, if we don't use clean energy sources, the end of the war is near and the worst of the case is that our victory will be final. At EcoPortal we are against all wars and especially the one that has caused the most victims so far, the one that has caused the most damage, the war of Man against Earth. Let's be dissidents, we must become organized resistance, because we are also the Earth, because the destruction of the Earth would be our last battle. Video: MAN vs EARTH (October 2020).

After years of fighting, biodiversity advocates finally get satisfaction. From now on, your seeds will be accessible without being outlaws. Victory! From now on, organic farmers will be able to sell seeds from their own productions. So decided the MEPs, to the chagrin of Monsanto and company. Explanations: Until then, only seeds listed by an official catalog could be legally traded. As Le Figaro points out, “most of these seeds belonged to multinationals like Monsanto. "The result was a standardization of fruits and vegetables, a standardization of our diet and an impoverishment of biodiversity." But last Thursday, MEPs ended the "criminalization" of so-called peasant seeds. On the occasion of new legislation aimed at supporting organics, they adopted a measure that allows organic farmers to sell seeds of their “home” crops. This decision, which will enter into force in two and a half years, in 2021, ends 37 years of restrictions (the commercialization of seeds outside the official catalog was prohibited by decree in 1981). All organic farmers will be able to develop their own varieties and market them, as has always been the case in the past. The aim is to promote the vitality of our biodiversity, revive the thousands of varieties of fruits and vegetables that exist and waver the disturbing statistics provided by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) and relayed by Le Figaro: three quarters of our current food would come from just 12 species of plants and 5 species of animals. Video: The Vatican and the European Union. Seeds of Bible Truth (October 2020). Australia found a way to save water from plastic pollution (and we can do the same!)

Switzerland has included in its medical insurance Natural Therapies such as Homeopathy and Acupuncture. The Government announced this after carrying out a study that lasted two years on the effectiveness and results of these techniques. A Swiss Government report on Homeopathic Medicine was published in late 2011, representing the most comprehensive assessment of Homeopathic Medicine ever published by a Government, and has recently appeared in book form in English (Homeopathy in Healthcare: Effectiveness, Appropriateness, Safety, Costs. Bornhoft and Matthiessen, Springer). This report states that homeopathic treatment is effective and that it should be included in the Swiss national health program. Not only does it work, it is cheaper than conventional medicine. Since 1998, the Government of Switzerland decided to expand its national health system to include certain complementary and alternative medicines, including homeopathic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, herbal medicine, anthroposophic medicine and neural therapy. The reimbursement of the expenses of these patients was an interim measure, while the Swiss government commissioned a study to determine whether they were effective and cost-effective. The provisional reimbursement for these alternative treatments ended in 2005, but as a result of this study, the national health program has again started reimbursing for homeopathic and other alternative treatments. In fact, as a result of a national referendum, more than two-thirds of voters supported the inclusion of alternative and homeopathic medicines within the national health program (Dacey, 2009; Rist, Schwabl, 2009). The Swiss report found evidence to support homeopathic treatment of respiratory tract infections and respiratory allergies. The report cites 29 studies on "Upper respiratory tract infections and allergic reactions", of which 24 of them offer a positive result in favor of homeopathy. Additionally, six of the seven controlled studies that compared homeopathic treatment with conventional medical treatment showed that homeopathy is more effective than conventional medical interventions (the study found another homeopathic treatment equivalent to conventional medical treatment). All these results of homeopathic treatment did not carry the common side effects of conventional drug treatment. When evaluating only the randomized, placebo-controlled trials, 12 of the 16 studies showed a positive result in favor of homeopathy. While in Spain, the president of the National Association of Professionals and Freelancers of Natural Therapies (COFENAT), Roberto San Antonio-Abad, has celebrated this measure and has considered it a great step and an opportunity to recognize the Natural Therapies to world level. “We want to congratulate the Government of Switzerland for maintaining the inclusion of Natural Therapies in its health system. This new path after a thorough study by the country's administration will boost the work of professionals in this sector worldwide ”. San Antonio-Abad, considers that "this measure recognizes the efficacy and importance of Natural Therapies within the Public Health of a country and the savings that this measure entails" and denounces that, meanwhile, in Spain "the regulation of Natural Therapies remains paralyzed despite the spectacular increase in demand ”. However, San Antonio-Abad has denounced: “While in countries like Switzerland or Portugal Natural Therapies are being regulated and recognized as fundamental to complement Allopathic Medicine and save costs for national health systems, in Spain, the public authorities look the other way and do not want to regulate despite the growing demand of at least 300,000 daily users ”. “The initiative of the Swiss Government can serve so that the Government of Mariano Rajoy begins to work in the regulation of the professionals of the Natural Therapies to give security to the citizens. Minister Montserrat: We know that it is complicated and we offer you our support to study the regulation. Look at yourself in the mirror of the surrounding countries and undertake the regulation of Natural Therapies ”, added the president of COFENAT. Video: Homeopathy and Traditional Chinese Medicine (October 2020).

The social life of plants is one of the keys so that the biodiversity of ecosystems can be conserved, according to a study developed by scientists from the Portuguese University of Coimbra (UC), in collaboration with the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid. Plants and their social life After more than a year and a half of research, a pattern in which the behavior of hundreds of plant species from the Royal Botanical Garden was analyzed, the researchers managed to unite two processes that the plant develops. One is the relationship with subsoil fungi and the colonization of other soils by spreading their seeds. As explained by one of the researchers, Marta Correia, in most plants their advantageous relationship with fungi is compatible to maintain the species and, in turn, the dispersal of the seeds for their perpetuation and conquest of other territories. The relationships that plants have with the soil or with the animals that eat their fruits and spread their seeds or that have the ability to pollinate them, are really important, which is why it is believed that social life should not be limited at any time of the plants. The problem of monocultures Correia assured that monocultures, such as eucalyptus, or invasive species reduce the social life of plants and, therefore, the biodiversity of the ecosystem is weakened. Specifically, he referred to invasive plants such as acacias, which have proliferated both in Portugal and in the Spanish region of Galicia and which cause the alteration of soils. The Portuguese researchers concluded that knowing the social life of plants is "essential" to design future management plans that allow the conservation of ecosystems in the face of climate change on the planet. Video: Is there hope for conservation? James Borrell. TEDxQMUL (October 2020). 5 signs of chronic vitamin deficiency in women Colombia recognizes the rights of Nature in its Amazon

Confirmed by scientists, the solar storm that will affect the Earth the week of August 20, could generate failures in power systems and bring problems in space satellites. In addition to the storm, scientists will also present a series of disturbances in the Earth's magnetic field between 17 and 21 of this month. According to scientists, magnetic storms of this magnitude could cause failures in power systems, problems with space satellites, and cause Northern Lights at altitudes of more than 60 degrees. These types of storms also affect human beings, causing headaches, nervousness, irritability, exhaustion or anxiety. However, the intensity of this magnetic storm does not generate a greater risk (being the magnitude G5 the highest). It is worth mentioning that it is totally normal for the Earth to pass through currents of the solar wind from time to time. This phenomenon is registered when solar activity is minimal. In this period, the Sun's magnetic field becomes weaker and loses the ability to retain plasma near its surface. Video: The Next Carrington Event, What To Expect From A Massive Solar Storm. (October 2020).

We all depend on water to live, humans, animals, plants ... without it life on earth is impossible, and although it is a renewable resource, we must conscientiously care for it. In many parts of the world, there is no access to clean water and in others, there is not even water. but unfortunately in the places that do exist, it is wasted and polluted with impunity and the energy cost of making it drinkable is unknown. Consumption in a home is an average of 150 liters per day per person, and half is spent on using the toilet, washing machine, general cleaning and watering the plants. Yes, half of all the uses we make of water inside a house do not need drinking water. As part of the solution to the problem, there is the possibility of collecting rainwater with simple systems, at least to save the consumption of drinking water. These systems can be perfected and convert this water, also in drinkable. Harvest rainwater Something very simple: when it is about to rain, place buckets, cans or bottles with funnels outdoors, if under the fall of a roof, you can collect more liters in a short time. With this water you can water your plants, wash clothes and dishes among other domestic uses. You can also collect water from the roof. It is only necessary to have basic elements such as a drain, a conduction pipe, a storage tank and a lifting structure that allows the supply of water at low pressure. So you can reduce more than 50% of your daily water consumption if you collect rainwater. Harvesting rainwater also helps prevent flooding by lessening the load on storm drains. If every home / building collected rainwater, together we would help mitigate the problem of flooding in large cities. To avoid clogging, which, in addition to the dust that is blown by the wind, is also caused by the leaves that fall on the roofs, and the birds that also dirty it, it is necessary to use filters. Use containers of clean materials, avoid for example those that have contained substances such as oil, acids, etc. If you want a little more pressure, the containers should be placed high enough. Keep the containers covered to prevent mosquitoes from laying their eggs. Regarding the roofing material: Green roofs and patio surfaces are not suitable, because they carry too much biomass. Thatched roofs give off a lot of smell. Asphalt roofs stain the water yellow. Fiber cement (Uralita) roofs release asbestos fibers. The ideal are the roofs of clay tile, cement fiber (Eternit, Duralit, etc); metal sheets of zinc (Calamine) or concrete slabs. Regarding the material of the gutters, PVC, zinc sheet or bamboo are recommended. How much water can we harvest? The volume of water harvested obviously depends on the area of ​​the roof and the amount of rainwater that falls. This leads us to the fact that in places with very low rainfall we would need roofs with a larger catchment area, but in many places in Latin America around 500 millimeters of rainwater falls per year. To calculate the amount of rainwater that we can harvest, we use the following formula: V = Volume of water harvested L = Roof length A = Roof width h = millimeters of rainwater falling Assuming a ceiling of 10 meters by 10 meters and an annual rainfall of only 200 millimeters (which would be equivalent to a very dry, almost desert climate), about 20,000 liters can be collected in the year, or in the period of greatest concentration of the rains, as seen when applying the formula. Assuming a family of 5 people and an average consumption of 10 liters per person / day, we have that the daily consumption would be 50 liters / family. When dividing the 20,000 liters by the 50 liters of family consumption per day, it represents us that this family can have water availability for more than a year (400 days). Innovations in rainwater harvesting Small technologies such as Rain Drops are eco-inventions that facilitate the harvesting of rainwater. Designs with recycled materials such as plastic bottles are also useful when collecting water. Get to know this project of an Ekomuro: Another way to contribute to saving water is to recycle it Recycling used water is one of the best options to reduce costs at home, and above all, to have a sustainable consumption. By reusing gray, sewage or rain water, you save thousands of liters of drinking water per year, since we can use it for all uses in which drinking water is not essential. There are already designs of sinks connected to the toilet cistern for the reuse of water. You can also build a simple system to reuse the water from the washing machine by placing the drain hose in a 200L bucket to which a tap or tap will be installed to remove the water as we need it. Video: HOW TO BUILD ALL NATURAL POND WITHOUT LINER LOW COST+MAINTENANCE BIG BACK YARD WATER LAKE HABITAT (October 2020).

Antarctica is about to lose a block of ice that doubles the surface of New York Antarctica continues to melt. This will create an iceberg twice the size of New York City. The ice block will be dislodged by a rift formed in October 2016 that has continued to spread in depth and length and may be the largest iceberg to break on the Brunt Ice Shelf since observations began in 1915. . Scientists have already given the alert, although there is still no precise date for the event and they do not know where it will go. The landslide will affect the continental shelf and the scientific bases located there, such as the Halley Station of the British Antarctic Survey. . This base, which is a major one for Earth, atmosphere and space science research, generally operates year-round, but has been closed twice in recent years due to unpredictable changes in the ice. In its announcement, NASA compared a photograph of that area where a crack can be seen that crosses from west to east the entire part that will be detached, and whose shape is that of a coastal cape. When this fissure meets another that crosses the cape from south to north, the territory will be turned into a huge iceberg whose direction is unpredictable, as well as the effect it will cause on the rest of the surface of that area of ​​Antarctica. Although the iceberg that will be born appears gigantic, in reality it is not so by Antarctic standards, NASA noted, although it said "it will be significant." Video: Visiting the most vulnerable place on Earth: the doomsday glacier (October 2020). Garbage problems: causes, effects and solutions Lactose intolerance. This is what you should know Planting trees doesn't prevent climate change, but it can save us from being burned to death Is it the end of straws, cutlery and plastic plates in Europe?

Every year, it is obvious that people are more and more eager for a green life. And this is reflected in the products that people choose to spend their money on. It's no wonder, then, that product developers are getting more and more creative in finding ways to bring sustainable yet practical products to market. And this definitely includes the world's first glasses made from coffee ... Marketed under the brand name ‘Ochis Coffee’, these high-quality, durable, organic glasses not only look good, but also emit a delicious coffee aroma. (Perfect for addicts like me!) The matte frame is pleasant to the touch, and features a light, flexible arch and adjustable temples. This makes it possible for anyone to quickly and easily adjust the frames without the help of any special equipment. The frames are also lighter than standard plastic frames and can be effortlessly cleaned with just a damp cloth. Max Gavrilenko, the founder of Ukraine-based Ochis Coffee, told us: “My father owned an optical shop and workshop, where I studied glasses since early childhood. During this time, I saw a lot of glasses and came up with the idea of ​​creating eco-friendly, comfortable and universal frames that users can easily adjust to suit themselves. “However, I have only recently developed the eco-friendly material made from coffee and linen. This is the material from which all Ochis coffee frames are now made ”. Speaking to Max, it is clear that one of his main drivers behind vegan coffee sunglasses is his strong desire to move eyewear production away from oil tanker plastic. And it has certainly managed to do this with its innovative coffee frames. Actually, Max uses coffee grounds and flax flour as the recyclable components of his frames. And this allows the frames to completely break down after 10 years in soil or water (100 times faster than plastic frames). So whether you bury the frames in your garden, or if you lose them while walking in nature, the frames will easily become a natural fertilizer for new plants. The first coffee frames to go into production will be equipped with stylish Carl Zeiss lenses, with a choice of four colors. But Max tells us that it is possible to install any type of prescription lenses if necessary. Pricing for the frames starts at $ 69, and a Kickstarter campaign will launch in October with a funding goal of $ 10,000. Do you want to know more about these unique sunglasses? Then head over to the Ochis Coffee website. Video: Can you Crush a Diamond with a Hammer? (October 2020). Why eating less meat is the best thing you can do for the planet in 2019 Over 140 pilot whales die in 'heartbreaking' chain in New Zealand

Capitalism is leading us rapidly to ecological collapse and into an abyss of greater violence, authoritarianism and inequality. To dismantle it, accurate diagnoses are necessary about its internal dynamics (main bets, limits, conflicts), which allow us to put bats in the capitalist wheel while promoting alternatives that put life, work and the common good at the center . But it is not a simple exercise. We live in an uncertain and over-complex system, in which the speed, scale and interdependence in which stories, processes and actions are developed make it difficult to produce accurate X-rays of what happens to us. In the economic sphere, until the financial explosion of 2008, a multilateralist consensus prevailed in the hegemonic agenda, which was committed to accumulating trade agreements, mega-projects and international organizations in favor of the global market. Today, however, concepts such as trade war, protectionism, tariffs, military-industrial complex, energy dispute, fourth industrial revolution (4RI), etc. are current. And these define the current situation, within the framework of aeconomic warfare on a global scale. Are we witnessing a turn in the hegemonic agenda? Have the treaties lost their strategic role after the freezing of the TTIP and the advancement of governments like Trump's? Is a de-globalizing scenario being consolidated in which state protectionism prevails? Are tariffs the center of the dispute between corporate-regional blocs? To answer these questions, it seems necessary to discern what is relevant from the media, to make the analysis of reality more complex. In this spirit, we approach the challenge of defining economic warfare as an undeniable phenomenon, but one that we must place within the hallmarks of current capitalism. When we talk about economic warfare, the first thing that comes to mind is a dispute between blocs (the US, China and the European Union, mainly at the hands of their transnationals), also crossed by conflicts between different types of capital (financial, industrial-military, digital, extractive, etc.). This being the commonly accepted meaning, it is only one part of something broader: the real economic war in force is the one that capitalism as a whole is waging against the working class, humanity and the planet itself. Capitalism is going through a particularly critical moment, in which the scarce expectations of reproduction of a huge financial surplus are joined by the unquestionable decline of the physical base on which the system operates. How to sustain capital accumulation in a context of low growth, how to do it with fewer material and energy resources, and also in a context of climate crisis, defines its great present paradox. To try to get out of this, it launches a virulent offensive in the form of 21st century capitalism. Its main objective is to break down any barrier (geographical, political, sectoral) to capitalist commodification on a global scale. Everything, in this way, must become a space for capitalist accumulation. Nothing, to the contrary, can impede the natural flow of trade and the security of investments. And as this bet has a limited scope, it is intended to initiate a new expansive economic wave from the hand of the 4RI (artificial intelligence, robotization, automation, etc.), which allows to exponentially expand the productivity and the sectors of reproduction of the capital of the hand of digital mega-companies. This and no other is the main exponent of the economic war in the making: the conflict between a cannibalistic capitalism —which exacerbates its dictatorial, unequal and unsustainable matrix— and life itself. However, the current situation also exacerbates intra-capitalist conflicts. Those in power compete for the shrinking pie of economic growth. These are conflicts that do not call into question the capitalist offensive —at least for the moment, without ruling out hypothetical war escalations—, delimiting their dispute within the framework of certain current structural patterns. We highlight three, which define the framework of what is possible for intracapitalist economic warfare. First of all, finances are the greathegemon, imposing on the system as a whole its short-term, unstable and self-regulated nature in its favor on a world scale. There is no capitalist agenda that does not adapt to this pattern, to a greater or lesser extent. Second, economic chains are structured in global logics, based on the control exercised by transnational companies. The interdependence of agents is very significant; every measure in a territory (tariffs, interests, exchange rates, etc.) has a global response and boomerang-like side effects, which makes an open and total war difficult where all parties have much to lose. And third: capitals as a whole are aware of the ecological and accumulation crisis, so the real confrontation focuses on materials and energy sources, on the one hand, as well as trying to take the lead in advanced sectors of the 4RI (data, artificial intelligence, digital commerce), on the other. Therefore, the intra-capitalist war is inserted within the limits of a globalized and financialized economy, which focuses its efforts on overcoming the serious accumulation crisis and ecological collapse, even if this entails an open war between capital and life. This is the key to characterizing the current economic war. If we analyze the US agenda, the main trigger of the outbreak of the multilateralist consensus, we will see how the media does not correspond to the strategic. Thus, in the face of the supposed primacy of the tariff war with China and the EU, and in the face of the alleged protectionist commitment based on theAmerica First and the freezing of the TTIP, the US assumes the economic war in its entirety. But always within the three structural patterns indicated, thus offering a different look at the concept. In this way, Wall Street is "the boss here", not the classic agro-export industry. Globalization continues to prevail, therefore, over the need for protection. Finance has managed to blow up all attempts at financial regulation, lower taxes, raise interest rates and maintain a strong dollar, generate offensives against weaker currencies and support the signing of trade agreements as a corporate shield tool (such as evidence of NAFTA update), although accepting the need to negotiate multilateral agreements such as TTIP in better conditions. This is the basis of the real agenda, which is completed with the fierce competition with China for the control of data as raw material - Europe is quite absent in this sector - as well as the development of new digital services as a space for accumulation. This dispute, together with the verification of the enormous Chinese trade surplus and its control over the US public debt, make the Asian giant and its sovereignty the true objective of the intra-capitalist war, with Europe as a stone guest and a vulnerable scenario to influence. The picture of themainstream agenda It concludes with the support —also military, if necessary— of the extractive complex of energy and materials, in the face of global depletion. From there, other measures of lesser rank are developed, which try to satisfy the rest of capitals: warmongering verbal escalations (Russia, Venezuela, atomic agreement, etc.) to favor the industrial-military complex and a limited increase in tariffs for industry domestic and agro-export, which at least compensates the strong dollar and sustains electoral support. But all this without the relevance that the media give it, given the global interdependence that prevents an open war. In short, the United States as the champion of the economic war shows that it is being fought fundamentally in the financial, energy-material field and around the 4RI, issues that do not seem to be in the media focus. Finance is the axis on which the framework of the possible pivots, which is why the global commitment and in favor of the treaties remains, with nuances. Tariffs and state protectionism, on the other hand, have a limited scope and a strong rhetorical component; there are only real restrictions on the flow of people, from racist logic. Meanwhile, the economic war in a broad sense is silenced, being the greatest threat. In this context, how to face the economic war? In the first place, assuming the broad meaning of confrontation with capital. The change in the economic matrix from ecological, feminist and class keys, the defense of the commons and the dispute around the 4RI - breaking the false story of the «collaborative economy» - appear as strategic priorities. Second, not having to choose between one capitalism or another, a multilateralist or a more unilateralist one. Both lead us to the social abyss and ecological collapse. Of course, it is a question of unambiguously curbing social and political fascism, but the alternative will never have to pass through an abstract and commercialized universalism that also condemns us. Breaking this dichotomy to which we are pushedmass media it is a third priority axis, creating an economic and commercial agenda completely alien to the exclusionary and reactionary stories and practices. Without thereby reviling the dispute over sovereignties, not only state but also local, regional and global. And energy, food, feminist and popular, redefining concepts and perspectives from a radical and inclusive perspective. Despite the media noise, the antagonist is clear; the challenge is how to derail it. By Gonzalo Fernández Ortiz de Zárate Author of the book “Market or democracy. Trade treaties in the capitalism of the XXI century ”(Icaria, 2018). Video: Higher Education: The New Global Economic War - Full Movie (October 2020). 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The botijo ​​is one of the most traditional Spanish symbols. Its operation only needs water, clay and a dry and hot climate, it is based on a principle as old as it is effective: the jug sweats to cool the water inside. In the 90s, Gabriel Pinto quantified –together with his partner José Ignacio Zubizarreta– the ability of the jug to lower the temperature of the water it contains, using theoretical and experimental models. Both were professors in the department of chemical engineering at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. Now, his student Carla Ortiz has studied its application in a vessel calledpot in pot which is used in Africa to preserve vegetables. It even refrigerates the insulin vials. "We did not intend to discover or patent anything," Pinto explains to Sinc in his laboratory at the university. “Our study was published in a journal for the teaching of chemical engineering and what we wanted was to offer a didactic tool. The cooling of the water in the jug - by transfer of heat and mass - is a subject of study in chemical engineering ”. But this system is also known in Nigeria, the inventor Mohammed Abba applied evaporative cooling - the same thermodynamic principle - to create the'Pot-in-pot'. It consists of inserting a clay pot into a larger one, insulated one from the other with wet sand and covering them with a damp cloth. In Arabic, the invention is called‘Zeer’. As the sand that separates the vessels is wet, the water tends to escape through the pores of the vessel in contact with the dry air –as in the jug– and through its evaporation it cools the interior. The girls go to school thanks to the jug Unable to preserve food, Nigerian girls were forced to harvest fresh vegetables every day to contribute to the family economy. Now with the jug they have time to go to school. "This type of spinach only lasted one day fresh, due to the high temperatures. Inside the 'pot-in-pot' it lasted several days. Ingenuity even makes it possible to keep insulin vials, ”explains Pinto. The experiment For Carla Ortiz, her work was oriented for academic purposes. The study lasted two months and in its experimental phase compared the state of food inside and outside the device for two weeks. Outside, the temperature exceeded 40 degrees, –those of that hot July 2017– but inside the 'pot-in-pot' it was about 20 degrees. After eight days, the vegetables that were inside the pot-in-pot were in good condition for consumption. Those that were left out of the system like spinach, carrots, tomatoes and eggplants had been spoiled. The 'pot-in-pot' and the jug share a sustainable refrigeration system, which does not need electricity. All you need is water, clay, sand and a suitable climate: hot and dry. The complex mechanism Until 25 years ago there was no scientific study to explain why the jug can lower the temperature of the water in the strong summer heat and to what extent it is capable of doing so. Gabriel Pinto, who is part of the Educational Innovation Group for Chemistry Didactics of his faculty, demonstrated it. The jug, a clay pot with handles and a spout, is perfect for someone who is studying thermodynamics in college. It is an example of evaporation with which you can learn concepts such as the so-called wet bulb temperature, a parameter that depends on the temperature of the air, its relative humidity and atmospheric pressure. "Their resolution is not easy: they are differential equations that must be solved by numerical methods", explains Pinto. “In this thermal balance, on the one hand, the water is cooling because it evaporates, but it is also heating up - due to the heat of the air - where the jug is dry. On the one hand the water is heated and on the other it cools ”. The jug in the world As it depends on the humidity of the external air, the jug does not work the same in all places on the planet. If the heat is humid, the jug does not cool. For this reason, this instrument is not well known in other countries. "The Mediterranean climate is an exception in the world because it is characterized by a dry summer." To find out where the botijo ​​mechanism could work, Professor Andrés Martínez de Azagra, from the University of Valladolid, prepared a map forJournal of Maps with countries with potentially suitable conditions for its operation. “That is why this type of cooling mechanism is known in countries like Tunisia or Morocco. Also, someone who lives in London or Paris doesn't need a jug either because summers aren't that hot. The essence of the jug is that someone who was mowing at 40 degrees, in the middle of summer, could conserve water at around 20 degrees ”. A jug applied to irrigation Andrés Martínez de Azagra, Professor of Hydraulics and Hydrology at the University of Valladolid, has also studied the operation of the jug. But his focus has not been on cooling, but rather on the transfer of water through the porous clay for use in irrigation. In ancient times, the Chinese and the Romans already buried clay pots filled with water near some crops to irrigate little by little. Azagra has been based on this principle to patent theoozing bottle. A buried ‘plastic jug’, used for watering. This innovation would serve as a backup irrigation for young woody plants affected by drought. "It would be like a kind of bottle for the plant, which very slowly distributes a liter of water in a month," Azagra explains to SINC. This also ensures efficient use of the water resource. In addition, the oozing bottle releases liquid when the ground is dry, but when it rains it can also collect the water autonomously. And so it is not necessary to fill it. Video: Food Slime In Refrigerator! American Girl Boy Doll - Cookie Swirl C Video (October 2020). 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Top 10 animals in danger of extinction. Your time on Earth is running out Humans are the greatest threat to the survival of endangered species through poaching, habitat destruction, and the effects of climate change. For some species, time on our planet Earth is running out. 1. Leopard Since 1996, the IUCN has classified the amur leopard as Critically Endangered with fewer than 70 individuals believed to exist today. It is hunted and killed for its beautiful fur, its habitat is being destroyed by human settlement and agricultural practices. 2. gorillas Cross river gorillas and mountain gorillas have been classified as Critically Endangered and Endangered by the IUCN since 1996, that is, two out of every five subspecies of gorillas. Currently, only 200-300 Cross River gorillas remain in their natural habitat and 900 mountain gorillas. 3. sea turtles Two types of sea turtles are among the most threatened species in the world: the hawksbill turtle and the leatherback turtle. In the last 100 years, the hawksbill has lost 90 percent of its population, 80 percent of which has been lost in the last 10 years. Starting in 1996, the IUCN classified it as a critically endangered species. The IUCN classifies the leatherback as Vulnerable, but many subpopulations face extinction. 4. Orangutan Since the millennium, the IUCN has classified the Sumatran Orangutan as Critically Endangered, with approximately 80% of the population lost in the last 75 years, mainly as a result of massive deforestation. This terrible trend continues to put pressure on the remaining population of 6,600 Sumatran orangutans estimated to remain on this land. 5. Sumatran elephant In the past 25 years, the Sumatran elephant has lost a surprising 70% of its habitat due to deforestation of palm oil plantations, agriculture, and human settlements. Less than 2,000 are estimated to exist and in 2011 the IUCN classified the Sumatran Elephant as Critically Endangered. 6. Saola In 1992, the discovery of this mystical creature, sometimes known as the Asian Unicorn, in Vietnam was hailed as one of the most spectacular zoological discoveries of the 20th century. Still, this elusive and beautiful animal has been listed by the IUCN as Critically Endangered and is one of the rarest large mammals on Planet Earth. 7. Vaquita At less than 100, believed to exist, the Vaquita is the rarest marine mammal in the world. Time is running out for these elusive little porpoises, with an expected extinction in 2018. 8. Tiger The tiger has long been hunted for its distinctive patterned fur. Of the nine subspecies of tigers, three are already extinct, many are in danger of extinction, but it is the South China Tiger and the Sumatran Tiger that currently face the greatest threat to their survival. Tragically, the South China tiger is believed to be extinct in the wild as it has not been seen since the 1970s. The Sumatran tiger is the only surviving tiger subspecies in Indonesia and since 2008 has been classified by IUCN as Critically Endangered. Currently, fewer than 500 of these tigers exist compared to a population estimate of up to 1,000 in 1978. 9. Rhinos Three of the five species in the Rhinocerotidae family are among the most threatened species in the world: the black rhinoceros, the Javanese rhinoceros and the Sumatran rhinoceros. The Java rhino is the most threatened with extinction with a total population of just 60 survivors in a national park in Java, Indonesia. The Sumatran rhino is critically endangered. It has been estimated that fewer than 100 exist today in the wild. The Black Rhino is classified by the IUCN as Critically Endangered with three subspecies declared extinct in 2011. 10. Pangolin Despite their tough appearance, these small warrior-built mammals are losing the battle against poachers and habitat loss. All eight species of pangolin are threatened, from Vulnerable to Critically Endangered. They are the most trafficked animals in the world, hunted for their scales that can be sold on the black market for up to $ 3,000 / kg. Video: 10 Animals ABOUT To Go EXTINCT! (October 2020).

UN chief warns of "existential threat" of climate change at world summit None of the world's challenges hangs over climate change, the United Nations chief said at a major climate action summit, reiterating his belief that global warming poses an "existential threat" to humanity. Both leadership and innovation were essential to climate action, Secretary General António Guterres said in his keynote address to the global gathering, known as Austria's R20 World Summit. The summit is a long-term initiative to help regions, states, and cities implement the Sustainable Development Goals and meet the climate goals of the United Nations-sponsored Paris Agreement. Mr. Guterres said: "We must use all our resources to create a sense of urgency", to increase ambition, while maintaining temperature increases in the coming years, as close to 1.5 degrees Celsius as possible. He said there were reasons to wait and declared that "the world is seeing a stream of climate action." Guterres cited examples, such as the construction in Morocco of a solar farm "the size of Paris, which will power more than a million homes by 2020" and China's achievement of approving its 2020 target of producing 105 gigawatts (GW) of capacity. of solar energy. "We must build on this," emphasized the UN chief, calling for renewable energy, which already produces one fifth of the world's electricity, energy that also offers significant health benefits. The World Health Organization reports that more than 80 percent of people living in urban areas are exposed to poor quality air that damages human health. "Investments in clean and green infrastructure must be scaled up on a global scale," he explained. "For that, we need the leadership of the finance and investment community and of local, regional and national governments that will decide on the main infrastructure plans in the coming years." Mr. Guterres encouraged private sector leaders to attend the UN General Assembly-backed summit in the Austrian capital to announce new funding for clean energy projects. While the independent 30-member International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates that 2017 investments in renewable electricity totaled $ 242 billion, the UN chief said, that was still far less than the funds invested in the development of new fossil fuels. Billions of dollars need to be invested in renewable energy if the world were to see a “large-scale transition to clean energy” by 2020, Mr. Guterres said. Furthermore, 75% of the necessary infrastructure has yet to be built by 2050. "Mobilizing and equipping local governments with the capacity and financing to accelerate climate action is necessary if we want to bend the emissions curve," he said. Noting that climate change continues to move faster than climate action, Mr. Guterres quoted the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as saying: “The more we disrupt our climate, the more we risk serious, widespread impacts. and irreversible ”. “But,” he added, “it doesn't have to be this way,” pointing to cutting-edge solar, wind and technologies such as electric vehicles or power from seaweed in the ocean, promising a new era of clean air. "Let us join a race to the top, a race in which there are only winners," concluded the Secretary General. Video: Steven Pinker and Stuart Russell on the Foundations, Benefits, and Possible Existential Threat of AI (October 2020).

Climate change and health specialists warn of the danger that global warming represents for public health in Europe, as higher temperatures contribute to the spread of rare diseases in the region and that can be fatal. Last summer, Europe had to cope with high temperatures, droughts and terrible storms, in addition to suffering from the heat and forest fires caused by the extreme dryness of the forests. There was also an increase in West Nile virus cases, which killed 71 people as of earlier this month, and the spread of dangerous vibrio bacteria in an exceptionally warm Baltic Sea. West Nile virus is an infection caused by a mosquito that can lead to neurological problems and even death. Several species of vibrio bacteria cause vibriosis, which can lead to deadly skin infections or gastrointestinal problems. There were also alerts because global warming increased the risk of tick-borne diseases and the geographic spread of mosquito vectors, causing diseases such as dengue, chikungunya and Zika. Specialists note that climate change is only one of the factors that affect the spread of tropical diseases in Europe, others may be travel, unplanned urbanization, although it does coincide that changes in temperature, rainfall and humidity facilitate the spread and the survival of mosquitoes, among other vectors, and consequently of infections. Jan Semenza, Director of Evaluation of the Scientific Section of the European Center for Disease Control and Prevention, told IPS: “The warming of the Baltic Sea is clearly related to climate change and the increase in sea surface temperatures. it is related to (the increase) of the vibrio bacteria ”. "Climate change projections for sea surface temperature indicate a marked upward trend in the summer months and an increased relative risk of these infections in the coming decades," he added. Anne Stauffer, Strategy Director of the non-governmental Health and Environment Alliance (HEAL), told IPS: “In terms of public awareness, this summer's heat wave made people really see that the climate change occurs in Europe and we must face its threats ”. "Before, people only thought about the impact in Africa and other places, not in Europe, but now they see that this continent is also affected," he observed. However, there is a lack of awareness of the impact of climate change on health. Some tropical disease specialists agree that in some countries, people are even unaware of certain diseases in Europe. "It probably doesn't occur to many Brits to think about West Nile virus when they go to Romania," observed Rachel Lowe, an associate professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, when asked by IPS. In fact, many tropical diseases have been in Europe for many years, but confined to southern latitudes, while ticks, some of which can cause Lyme disease (with symptoms such as flu and rashes) and encephalitis (inflammation of the brain), are present in many parts of the continent. In fact, this year, there was an increase in encephalitis in central and southern Europe. Cases of the West Nile virus, which have been reported for years in Europe, increased markedly and appeared earlier than usual, which was attributed to the high temperatures recorded earlier in the season. The spread of tick-borne diseases in recent years towards more northern latitudes and at higher altitudes was also documented. "The increase in temperature in Europe may allow the arrival of tropical and semi-tropical vector species, which allow the transmission of diseases in areas where low temperatures had prevented it," explained a spokesman for the World Health Organization (WHO) . The WHO office in Europe has focused attention in recent years on what it calls “the emergence of the vector-borne disease challenge”. It even created a regional framework for mosquito surveillance and control, and recommended a mix of actions, such as political commitment accompanied by financial resources, as well as community participation for personal protection against insect bites and activities for control. of vectors. The WHO considers that “due to globalization, the increase in the volume and pace of travel, trade and climate variability, diseases caused by vectors can spread to new areas, affecting new populations that had never been exposed to it. they". "In these areas, the lack of awareness of diseases such as West Nile virus, dengue or chikungunya among health professionals, both human and animal, can be a challenge for early detection," he warns. “People have to be more aware (of tropical diseases in Europe). They are more aware of infectious diseases, in general, but probably not so much of the fact that there are certain infectious diseases (on the continent), ”which there weren't before, Lowe noted. But not everything is greater awareness. The probabilities of containing, for example, an outbreak caused by a mosquito, will depend on numerous factors, such as "monitoring the spread and control of the mosquito," he said. The WHO noted the need to inform people for their own protection, and while authorities must ensure that mosquito breeding sites are removed, doctors must be regularly trained to recognize diseases that were not common in Europe. But there are other specialists who argue that instead of having to deal with disease outbreaks, governments should work to stop climate change and prevent them from appearing. "There is still a lot that is not known regarding climate change health issues, and they do not know how they can evolve," Stauffer observed. "But the lesson of the (boreal) summer is that we need to redouble our efforts to tackle climate change, not only adapt health care to deal with a warmer climate, but also act to reduce emissions (pollutants)," he pointed. "We need to think about preventing health problems by addressing the causes of climate change itself," he added. Video: Public Health Impact of Climate Change (October 2020).

The largest wildfire in Greenlandic history flashed brightly last summer, a potential warning sign for a future shaken by catastrophic climate change. Scientists are concerned that Greenland's massive ice sheet could absorb the carbon-black smog produced by the fires, as well as any fires that occur in the future. A third of the ice sheet has been affected by soot from the forest fire, which accelerates the absorption of heat and the melting of glaciers. "I think it's a warning sign that something like this can happen in permafrost that was supposed to be melting at the turn of the century," rather than the present, Andreas Stohl, Senior Scientist at the Norwegian Institute for Air Research (NILU) he told Live Science. There was no lightning activity - a leading cause of wildfires - prior to the blaze, which was about 90 miles (150 kilometers) northeast of Sisimiut, Greenland's second-largest city. The fire is suspected of being man-made, although Stohl noted that peat, in oxygen-rich environments, can self-ignite, even at relatively low temperatures. Researchers estimated that the fire burned around 9 square miles (2,345 hectares) of land. The NILU-led team also studied how much of the soot from the fire settled on the ice. "If you consider that Greenland has the largest ice sheet outside of Antarctica, you immediately get to thinking: what if some smoke falls on this ice sheet?" said Nikolaos Evangeliou, another scientist at NILU. Using a computer model to simulate how soot could have been produced in the atmosphere, the researchers calculated that about 7 tons of an aerosol called black carbon - 30 percent of the total emissions from that fire - landed on the ice sheet. . This amount of carbon didn't have much of an impact on the overall albedo or reflectivity of the ice sheet, Stohl and Evangeliou said. The wildfire, while unprecedented in size for Greenland, was small compared to the wildfires that hit the Americas last year. (The record wildfires in British Columbia in 2017 burned more than 4,600 square miles, or 12,000 square kilometers, according to the Canadian news magazine Maclean’s.) By sending gigantic plumes of smoke into the atmosphere, the North American fires deposited much more carbon in Greenland. the ice sheet than the Greenland forest fire, Evangeliou said. However, the Greenland fire was much more effective in dropping carbon onto the ice sheet, he explained. "If the larger fires were to burn, they would actually have a substantial impact on the meltdown," Stohl said. And, there are more chances of such fires, if more of the Greenland permafrost melts and exposes the peat, which is actually the early stage material used in the formation of coal, and therefore burns easily. Perhaps more worryingly, these peat fires can burn underground and go unnoticed for a long time. Stohl pointed out that peat fires in Indonesia can burn for years before they erupt again on the surface. "We can't be sure that the fires (in Greenland) are out there," Stohl said. Video: Arctic Ocean is dying Scientists dire warning after biggest North Pole expedition yet (October 2020).

The deterioration of the environment generates diseases that were previously reduced to the older population, but which currently affect younger people and in a more virulent way, so medicine has proposed to study the causes and effects of these new emerging pathogens . The doctor specializing in Pediatrics, Neonatology, Stomatology and Addictions, Pilar Muñoz-Calero, expert in Environmental Medicine and president of the Alborada Foundation and promoter of the Pathology and Environment Chair of the Complutense University of Madrid explained to EFEverde the progress made to find the relationship between emerging diseases with the deterioration of the environment. But currently there is a range of pathologies that are multi-casual and one of the causes and common denominator of many of them is related to the environment, with the environment, that is, related to what we eat, drink or breathe inside our houses as well as abroad. For Muñoz-Calero, “the products we use, for example, for cleaning, contain a multitude of potentially toxic substances that cause a series of pathologies and if these substances did not exist, these pathologies would not exist either, but they are found in the environment where we move. ”. Diseases that have to do with physical sensitivity “Perhaps, within the framework of emerging diseases that are the most unknown and the most harmful, there are fibromyalgia, fatigue syndrome, self-sensitivity, or the type of pathologies that are more unknown, although increasingly frequent, that have to see with physical sensitivity ”, Muñoz-Calero stressed. "But we can also talk about other more frequent diseases, which are autoimmune (in which the immune system attacks healthy cells in the body by mistake), such as Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, hyperactivity in children, asthma, allergies, food intolerances or cancer ”. "Among these diseases we could speak of a new paradigm that has common characteristics such as those that refer to chronic inflammatory hypersensitivity diseases", added the scientist. What is happening at present is that "more frequent diseases that previously appeared at an age from 70 or 75 years are now appearing in younger people, even at the age of between 30 and 40 years." For Muñoz-Calero, other diseases such as macular diseases, (which affect the central area of ​​the retina of the eye, for example), “are pathologies that were suffered at quite late ages and, however, they are getting ahead in age, apart from to increase the frequency and incidence of its appearance ”. According to the environmental doctor “one of the causes is that the use of a multitude of pesticidal substances that are not toxic in themselves, however some of them would fall within the group of hormonal alterations, that is, substances that can cause changes in DNA ”. These hormonal changes cause "problems with estrogens that are linked to breast or prostate cancer and many of the substances that cause them are found in the plastics or phthalates of some pesticides." In the human body, “the receptors of these estrogens do not know how to differentiate between those that are natural and those that are not, and they cause many problems related to thyroid diseases. There are some toxins in the environment, such as some of these products or substances that are used as fire retardants that are used in homes, and that many of them have already been made mandatory because they are flame retardant ”. Have more information and apply common sense To try to reduce the consequences of the impacts that the deterioration of the environment produces on our health, Dr. Muñoz-Calero stressed that “we can do many things, trying to have more information about how we live and applying common sense, which I think we have lost, because we really have daily information on the emission of the multitude of substances found in the environment ”. All these substances that are called xeniobiotics (compounds of a chemical structure that do not exist in nature but have been developed by man in a laboratory) “are those that the body cannot assimilate, so we will have to question ourselves, ask ourselves and ask ourselves what all this is doing in the body ”. These are substances “that do not belong to life and that the body cannot convert into proteins, carbohydrates or lipids, but somehow the body tries to eliminate them and, otherwise, what it does is simply accumulate your information". "Given this barbarity that is being committed of such an immense emission of potentially toxic substances that are on the market, of which new ones appear every day, something would have to be done to protect citizens by offering more information, in addition to asking and require tougher regulations. We cannot wait for the evils to be greater to take precautions ”. "There are many diseases, especially that are producing premature aging due to stress, but not only to work stress as everyone thinks, but it is a metabolic and oxidative stress when being in contact with this amount of oxidizing substances", he indicated the environmentalist doctor. "What these substances are really causing is an alteration that makes us have a preponderance of all degenerative and chronic inflammatory processes, as well as hypersensitivity that characterize all these pathologies," concluded Pilar Muñoz-Calero. 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Study highlights the urgent need to adapt urban areas to cope with floods, droughts and heat waves Major British cities, including Glasgow, Wrexham, Aberdeen and Chester, could be much more affected by climate change than previously thought, according to new research. The study, conducted by the University of Newcastle, looked at changes in floods, droughts and heat waves in all European cities using all climate models. Looking at the impact for the year 2050-2100, the team produced results for three possible outcomes: low, medium, and high impact scenarios. But even the most optimistic case showed that 85% of UK cities with a river, including London, would face increased flooding. In the high impact scenario, some cities and towns in the UK and Ireland could see the amount of water per flood as much as double. The worst hit is Cork, which could see 115% more flood water, while Wrexham, Carlisle, Glasgow and Chester could see increases of more than 75%. The increase in the severity of the expected impact came after the team, in the first of its kind, examined all three climate hazards together in the largest study of its kind ever conducted. After about three years of analyzing data in hundreds of cities in Europe, they found that each result was worse than previously thought. Wrexham, Carlisle, Glasgow, Aberdeen, Derry and Chester were the UK cities and towns most affected by river flooding, and Dublin, Cork and Waterford were the worst in Ireland. All 571 cities studied saw a worsening in heat waves, and the high-impact scenario predicted that southern Europe would experience droughts 14 times worse than current ones. Lead author Selma Guerreiro said: “Although southern European regions are adapted to cope with droughts, this level of change could be beyond the breaking point. "Additionally, most cities have significant changes in more than one hazard, highlighting the substantial challenge cities face in managing climate risks." While southern European cities saw the largest increase in the number of heat wave days, Central European cities saw the largest temperature rise during heat waves, ranging from 2 ° C to 7 ° C for the low scenario and 8 ° C to 14 ° C for the high scenario. A co-author, Professor Richard Dawson, said: “The research highlights the urgent need to design and adapt our cities to cope with these future conditions. “We are already seeing firsthand the implications of extreme weather events in our capital cities. “In Paris, the Seine rose more than four meters above its normal water level. And as Cape Town prepares for its taps to run dry, this analysis highlights that such weather events are feasible in European cities as well. Published in the journal Environmental Research Letters, the research found that the European capitals hardest hit by the floods were Dublin, Helsinki, Riga, Vilnius and Zagreb. In the high-impact scenario, several European cities saw increases of more than 80% in peak river flows. Stockholm and Rome could see the biggest increase in the number of heat wave days, while Prague and Vienna could see the biggest increase in maximum temperatures during heat waves. Lisbon and Madrid are in the main capital cities for increases in the frequency and magnitude of droughts, while Athens, Nicosia, Valletta and Sofia could experience the worst increases in both drought and heat waves. Next month, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change will hold its first scientific conference on cities and climate change, after recognizing the important role that appointments should play in tackling climate change. More than 75% of the EU population currently lives in urban areas, and this percentage is expected to increase to 82% by 2050. And the impact is already being felt, as between 1998 and 2009 floods in Europe caused 1,126 deaths and at least € 52 billion in insured economic losses. Dawson, who is on the conference's scientific steering committee, said: “A key goal for this conference is to bring together and catalyze action by researchers, policy makers and industry to address the urgent issue of preparing our cities, their populations, buildings and infrastructure for climate change “. The team used projections from all available models associated with the RCP8.5 high emissions scenario, implying a 2.6C to 4.8C increase in global temperature. They found that the British Isles have some of the worst overall flood projections, with the high scenario predicting that half of UK cities could see at least a 50% increase in peak river flows. Video: Climate change: cities and regions taking action European Committee of the Regions (October 2020). Women and their lives devoted to the wisdom of plants The roots of lasting peace are intertwined with the earth Rituals for using the powerful energy of the Blood Wolf Super Moon Free Course of Professionalization in Organic Cooking and Food

What better way to start the day than with a breakfast packed with healthy and energetic properties? One that is also easy to make and absolutely delicious to eat, that you'll actually wait for the alarm to go off in the morning. Well, you can find all of that and more in an açaí breakfast bowl. Depending on what's available in your closet, fridge, or fruit bowl, you can whip up this breakfast bowl to your liking by filling it with all your favorite foods. What a fabulous breakfast! Açaí is a berry from the Amazon rainforest of Brazil. They are low in sugar and a great source of antioxidants and minerals, and when mixed with fruits, seeds, and nuts, they will taste even better. Organic Freeze Dried Açaí Berry Powder is a handy store bought pantry ingredient as it can be added to many drinks, breakfasts, and even ice cream. A super healthy and delicious breakfast bowl is made here when mixed with nut milk, nut butter, and loads of fresh fruit. The powder can be purchased at health food stores and online, but it has a relatively short shelf life, so only buy what you need. The ingredients 2 cups strawberries (frozen) 1/2 cup blueberries (frozen) 1/2 cup mango slices 2 ripe bananas (cut and frozen) 4 tablespoons freeze-dried organic açaí powder 2 tablespoons organic nut butter 1 cup almond milk sugar free Ingredients - your choice (suggestions in the list below) Steps to do it Gather your ingredients and wash and dry your fruits the night before. Remove the leaves from the strawberries and the stems from the blueberries. Cut the banana. Place all the fruit pieces in a Ziploc bag and freeze for the next morning. You can also buy ready-made frozen fruits, which are always handy to keep in the freezer, just in case.When you're ready for breakfast or a power-packed snack, blend the fruits with an immersion blender or food processor, with the açaí powder, almond milk, and nut butter to create a thick, yogurt-like consistency. Do not over-process or the mixture may become viscous. If the puree is too thick, add a little more nut milk. Too thin, again with another banana or more frozen fruit. Divide the açaí mixture into two bowls, wide enough to hold the toppings, then stack on top of your chosen healthy topping; The choice is up to you. Goji Berries Chia Seeds Hemp Seeds Chopped Nut MixGranolaBee MuselipolenHoneyRaw Cocoa SeedsDried Coconut FlakesFresh Sliced ​​FruitFresh HerbsKale Spinach Tips These breakfast bowls can be made using frozen acai berry pulp, but this can be expensive. Use it alone or mix it with your chosen fruit. Just be sure to use just one banana or the puree will be too thick. Swap the nut milk with other seasonings; Coconut water is a refreshing change, or use one of your favorite juices. Use regular milk if you want a non-vegan bowl. Video: 4 Super Easy Healthy Breakfast Ideas! Banana Pancakes, Overnight Oats, Energy Wrap, Rainbow Parfait! (October 2020). NASA video: Arctic sea ice melting accelerates Historic ruling condemns Apple and Samsung for planned obsolescence

Corporations and governments can legally destroy protected natural areas if they offset the loss of biodiversity elsewhere. That arrangement is not working, but it is becoming more prevalent. Compensation for biodiversity loss is not new: in the 1980s, the United States, Germany, and India introduced this approach into their environmental regulations. According to proponents of this idea, it ensures that companies that harm biodiversity offset their impact by either maintaining or enhancing biodiversity elsewhere. However, the examples below demonstrate a different reality: compensation for loss of biodiversity undermines protection of the environment. It allows companies to ignore the rules of protection of nature in any particular place of interest, as long as they promise to compensate for the damage in other places. In this way they can claim to respect environmental protection laws while at the same time destroying biodiversity in places protected by law. In a way, compensatory pay allows government agencies and financial institutions to maintain an uninterrupted flow of environmental licenses and financing for corporate destruction, including in protected areas and World Heritage sites; This is despite the fact that the catalog of environmental regulations has increased in response to public pressure, since the 1970s, for better protection of the environment. The following quote from a New Zealand-based law firm clearly summarizes why not only governments, but also - or perhaps particularly - companies are interested in offsetting biodiversity: “Biodiversity loss offsets can help companies manage their risks more effectively and strengthen their license to operate by demonstrating to regulators that operations can be based on a biodiverse approach 'no net loss' or' profit net ', and by ensuring the support of local communities and civil society. Companies are increasingly looking to demonstrate good environmental practices in order to secure their license to operate and access capital, obtain consent in a timely manner, operate profitably and maintain a competitive advantage. " It is not surprising, therefore, that compensation for biodiversity loss has become so popular. According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), since the beginning of the century the number of countries in which compensation for loss of biodiversity or other forms of compensatory retribution have been introduced has doubled. This instrument received a great boost at the international level during the Rio + 20 summit in 2012 in Brazil. The summit was dominated by proposals focused on how to achieve a green economy through an economic valuation of nature, and compensatory payments were presented as an integral part of the promise of the green economy. Many of the biodiversity loss compensation initiatives that exist today, both at the corporate and intergovernmental levels, can be traced back to the run-up to and immediate follow-up to the Rio + 20 summit. By 2017, 115 countries had adopted regulations allowing the use of offsets for biodiversity or similar rewards. As already noted, the reasons for this increase are diverse, including: Many countries have adopted the policy goal of “no net loss” of biodiversity, and compensation for biodiversity loss is the mechanism to achieve this goal. Corporate destruction increasingly targets formally protected areas or habitats particularly rich in biodiversity, where destructive activities are now licensed by law only in exceptional cases. As a result, corporate calls for "regulatory flexibility" are on the rise, with biodiversity compensation and compensation schemes proposed as instruments to provide such "regulatory flexibility" or "malleability." The World Bank and its private sector financing arm, and the International Finance Corporation (IFC), have largely promoted biodiversity loss compensation provisions in environmental regulation in the Global South, in order to facilitate the implementation of the provisions of IFC Performance Standard 6. These Performance Standards are a set of requirements and guarantees that must be met in order for the IFC to finance a corporate project. Biodiversity loss compensation provisions were added to the Performance Standard in 2012, the same year that the Rio + 20 summit gave a major boost to biodiversity compensation as a policy instrument. The revised 2012 Performance Standards allow IFC to finance destruction in what the World Bank has defined ascritical habitat. Prior to the 2012 review, approval of IFC funding for corporate destruction in such habitat would have been more difficult and controversial. Regulated destruction ofcritical habitat IFC Performance Standard 6 has proven to be a particularly powerful tool for offsetting biodiversity loss, at both corporate and government levels. Since many public and private sector banks have adopted the IFC Performance Standards or similar standards, submitting a biodiversity loss compensation plan has practically become a prerequisite for securing financing for corporate destruction in what the World Bank has defined ascritical habitat. Because many rivers have already been dammed and many biodiversity- and ore-rich habitats have been destroyed to extract the desired minerals, companies in the hydropower and extractive industries are increasingly targetingcritical habitat for corporate expansion. And since IFC funding is often crucial to securing increased private sector funding for such corporate projects, hydropower, mining, and oil and gas companies have pioneered compensation for biodiversity loss. By submitting compensation plans for loss of biodiversity, they hope to obtain a public license to operate and secure support from the conservation industry for such corporate projects, which would likely face public opposition for their location in areas of particular importance to them. the conservation of biodiversity. Compensation for loss of biodiversity as a gateway to oil drilling in protected areas and World Heritage sites In Kenya, biodiversity loss offsets enabled the KJV oil company to obtain licenses and financing for the exploration of oil areas within two World Heritage sites, Lake Turkana National Park and the Great Rift Valley Lakes. in Kenya. Drilling also affects protected areas. KJV is committed to conducting its activities in accordance with IFC's Performance Standards and developing biodiversity offset plans in the hope that this will facilitate the licensing process for destruction in areas that are of great importance. for the conservation of biodiversity. French energy company Total also cites IFC's Performance Standard 6 as a reason for developing a biodiversity loss compensation plan for its Tilenga oil exploration project in Uganda and other operations involving drilling in national parks and other protected areas. : "Total agreed to comply with the Performance Standards of the International Finance Corporation (IFC, World Bank) for its Tilenga, Papua LNG and EACOP projects, in order to take into account the particularly sensitive biodiversity of certain sites." The Tilenga oil drilling and East Coast Pipeline (EACOP) affects one of the world's biodiversity hotspots, the Albertine Rift, as well as the spectacular Murchison Falls National Park, an area that undoubtedly qualifies howcritical habitat. The company even acknowledges that its operation will target "a particularly sensitive area for biodiversity." However, Total's biodiversity loss compensation plans for drilling for oil in one of the world's most important biodiversity sites blame local land use for biodiversity degradation (degradation that it claims is the company will stop and reverse); Meanwhile, any mention of the devastation that oil drilling will cause at this biodiversity hotspot is clearly absent from the list of factors that threaten biodiversity. In Costa Rica, the energy companyCosta Rican Electricity Institute is experimenting with biodiversity loss compensation to compensate for ecological damage as a result of the construction of a large hydroelectric dam on the Reventazón River. The construction of the dam is financed, among others, by the IFC and the European Investment Bank. According to the company, "the Reventazón River qualifies as a Natural Habitat according to IFC Performance Standard 6," and the changes in hydrology that result from the dam will affect Tortuguero National Park. As a compensatory measure, the company promised to restore another river, the Parismina, and the Costa Rican government promised not to develop any hydroelectric dams in Parismina for the next few decades. In Germany, compensation for biodiversity loss has become an increasingly common form of compensation for environmental damage, and a requirement that has been part of environmental regulation since the 1980s. At the largest open pit coal mine in Europe, stretching over 85 km2, compensation for biodiversity loss facilitates the destruction of a very old wooded area, the Hambach Forest. Mining has destroyed forests up to 12,000 years old. Currently only a small remnant of these ancient forests remains, characterized by very high biological and structural diversity. This type of forest is protected by Annex 1 of the EU Habitats Directive. As a result, the mining company is required by law not only to reforest the area after extraction, but also to implement additional compensatory measures (compensation for loss of biodiversity) on land located outside the mining concession. Among them is the restoration of old farmland located just north of the mine. As part of a highly criticized partnership between mining company RWE and IUCN, the conservation organization produced a report that suggests, among others, that RWE considers "possible compensatory measures." The same report indicates, recognizing the limits of compensation for loss of biodiversity, that compensation measures "will never reach the biodiversity status of a mature forest." When perpetuity doesn't last Compensation for biodiversity loss from Uganda's controversial Bujagali Dam demonstrates how unreliable compensation promises are. The dam project on the Nile River is co-financed by the IFC. The reservoir created by the dam flooded ecologically significant waterfalls and riverbanks of great cultural and spiritual importance to the indigenous Basoga peoples in the project area. In its public communication, the IFC assured its critics that the “comparatively important” riverbanks and falls would be reservedin perpetuity as compensation for loss of biodiversity in the Bujagali reservoir. However, the legal agreement that was ultimately signed with the Ugandan government did not mention a commitment to protection in perpetuity. As a result, perpetuity only lasted until a new hydropower developer obtained permission for another dam on the Nile River. This new hydroelectric reservoir will submerge waterfalls and river banks that were held in reserve a few years earlier to offset the destruction of the waterfalls and the surrounding riverbanks caused by the Bujagali dam. The IFC agreed to the destruction of the site with compensation measures for loss of biodiversity on the condition that a new offset location is identified and protected. In Australia, Warkworth Sands Woodland, an area dedicated to be a clearing site for a Rio Tinto mine, was also destroyed when it became part of a corporate development project. Such examples demonstrate one of the many risks that compensation represents for the protection of biodiversity: if today an area reserved as compensation for loss of biodiversity in the future becomes economically interesting for a company, its destruction can also be authorized and financed simply by promising to make up for a second time to replace the area the company now wishes to destroy. Compensation for biodiversity loss allows perpetual destruction rather than formal protection of biodiversity. More and more countries allow biodiversity compensation But as indicated by the number of countries with environmental regulations to compensate for compensation for biodiversity loss reported by the IUCN, which is 115, it is not only companies that are now incorporating biodiversity compensation into their business plans. Liberia and Mozambique are two countries where the World Bank has funded policy initiatives to offset biodiversity loss. In Liberia, World Bank consultants even developed a national roadmap to offset the loss of biodiversity. In this World Bank proposal, mining and other extraction projects in protected or high-biodiversity areas should be allowed, on the sole condition that developers pay a biodiversity offset fee which will then be used to maintain and manage (other ) national parks and protected areas. In Mozambique, an organization involved in the biodiversity loss compensation roadmap developed thanks to the support of the World Bank explains why companies should not fear biodiversity compensation: “Far from being a burden on private companies, this new Regulation can speed up the approval process for new projects by clarifying procedures, pushing companies to comply with national and international standards, which they increasingly have to take care of ”. Colombia is another country that in recent years has revised its environmental legislation, and has introduced the environmental framework for compensation that, in the region, is probably the most complete. As corporate activities that require compensation for biodiversity loss grow rapidly, an area of ​​conflict also emerges resulting from such an environmental framework: biodiversity compensation inevitably entails double land grabbing, or at least leads to a context where companies control not only how land is used at their corporate project site, but also at the biodiversity loss compensation site. The land area in Colombia is considerable: between 2013 and 2015 alone, the potential demand for land declared as compensation for biodiversity loss amounted to more than 180,000 hectares. Thus, an important issue concerning the land looms, as noted by an observer in Colombia: “With more than 8 million hectares under mining titles, more than 130 oil and gas companies with operations in the country throughout at least 1.5 million hectares, including Shell, Oxy, Chevron, ExxonMobil and Petrobas, and thousands of kilometers of highways in pipelines that will affect the critical sites of biodiversity, one of the central questions is where the thousands and thousands of hectares are going to come from necessary for said compensations ”. Compensation for loss of biodiversity increases conflicts over land Conflict over land will therefore become a growing corollary of compensation for loss of biodiversity. Existing biodiversity offset projects already prove this reality to us. Take the example of a mining company seeking compensation for loss of biodiversity to compensate for the forest that will be destroyed by the corporate mine. In order for a forest to qualify for compensation, the company must demonstrate that if the forest is not converted into a biodiversity offset, it would be destroyed. By avoiding this hypothetical destruction, the company can demonstrate that it is compensating for the loss of biodiversity caused by its mine by preventing the loss of biodiversity elsewhere. This scenario of hypothetical destruction that the company claims to avoid through its biodiversity offset tends to include the following narrative: “Poor peasants have deteriorated the land because they use 'slash and burn' and extract too much fuel from the forest. Our compensation for the loss of biodiversity will prevent further 'cutting and burning' and gathering firewood, and will help the forest to recover ”. Although the details vary, this is the hypothetical scenario that underpins most of the biodiversity loss offset projects in the Global South. It brings several advantages for the company: blaming the deforestation and loss of biodiversity on peasant farming practices and the collection of firewood helps to make invisible the true risk, the corporate destruction caused by the mine, the dam, etc. Since the company will need to ensure that it avoids hypothetical destruction over the years, corporate biodiversity offset needs will control land use at the biodiversity offset site, as well as at the mining site or site. the hydraulic reservoir. This is why many warn that biodiversity equates to a double land grab, where corporate needs outweigh the needs of peasant agriculture in two locations: the corporate destruction site and the corporate compensation site. New trends, same conflicts In recent years, a trend in compensation for biodiversity loss has been for companies to make payments to conservation trust funds that subsequently implement conservation measures labeled as biodiversity offsets, rather than companies being directly involved in the implementation of compensation. As a result, it is increasingly difficult to establish a direct link between a particular biodiversity offset and the corporate destruction that is paid for it. Another trend in the corporate and conservation industry literature is a change in terminology. Many conservation industry and corporate brochures no longer use the term “biodiversity offset”. Instead, industry publications, government policies, planning documents, licensing decisions, and funding commitments refer to the quantification of “gains and losses”, the achievement of “net biodiversity gains. ”Or“ net loss ”of biodiversity through the establishment of biodiversity banks and conservation trust funds. However, the distancing of the use of the term “compensation for biodiversity loss” does not mean that the instrument has lost its appeal in the extractive industries, in the conservation industry or in institutions such as the IFC and the World Bank. Literature consulted: World Rainforest Movement (2018): “Mainstreaming biodiversity” in extractive industries: Concealing devastation and land grabbing. ReCommon (2017): Your Mine. Video about a biodiversity offset project in Madagascar. ReCommon and World Rainforest Movement (2016): Rio Tinto’s biodiversity offset in Madagascar - Double landgrab in the name of biodiversity? A. Brock & A. Dunlap (2018): Normalising corporate counterinsurgency: Engineering consent, managing resistance and greening destruction around the Hambach coal mine and beyond. Political Geography 62: 33-47. Video: HIPPCO Threats to Biodiversity--Habitat Destruction (October 2020).

Two total eclipses in America, also visible in Europe, and three meteor showers are part of the astronomical events not to be missed in 2019. Today we tell you the events of the first semester. January 4 - Quadrantid Meteor Shower About 120 meteors / h are forecast for this year for six hours around 2:30, Universal Time (UT). This schedule favors Europe, North Africa, and Far West Asia. Observers located in other parts of the world can expect about 25 meteors to enter the atmosphere per hour, notes the American Meteorite Society. During the quadrantid shower, the Earth perpendicularly passes through a thin stream of particles that originate from an asteroid rather than a comet: asteroid 2003 EH1. Asteroid 2003 EH1 takes 552 years to orbit the sun at a time. It's possible that the 2003 EH is a "dead comet" or a new type of object discussed by astronomers, sometimes called a "rock comet," the Society notes. January 6 - Partial Solar Eclipse A partial solar eclipse will occur on January 6 at 1:42 a.m. international time (UT). It will be visible in parts of Asia and the North Pacific. January 21 - Great Total Super Moon Eclipse A splendid total lunar super eclipse will be visible on the night of January 20-21, 2019 across America. Part of the cosmic event will be visible in Europe and Africa. It will be extraordinary because of the wide visibility throughout the American continent; It is also accompanied by a Super Moon phenomenon. It looks bigger than usual because it coincides with the perigee or transit closest to Earth, just 359,000 km from Earth. The Sun, Earth and Moon will be aligned. On one side the Sun begins to transit the constellation Capricorn, and on the other the Moon in the opposite constellation, Cancer. The total eclipse with the red and dark Moon - Blood Moon - will be appreciated for 1 hour and 24 minutes. UTC time - between 3:29 and 4:53 hours Europe time - between 4:29 and 5:53 Chile and Argentina time - between 0:29 and 1:53 Mexico time - between 21:29 and 22:53 The climax is at 5:13 a.m. UTC; 4:13 in Europe; 0:13 in Chile and Argentina and 22:13 in Mexico. The duration of the lunar penumbra, before and after the eclipse, will last between 2:36 and 7:48. UTC time. The dark and red Moon will be seen throughout America and partly in Europe and Africa. May 6 - Eta Aquarids Star Rain The spectacular shower of shooting stars Eta Acuáridas prepares for its gala nights from May 5 to 6. This year NASA is forecasting 60 meteors per hour. The Eta Aquarids are the remains of the tail of thecomet 1P / Halley, And according to NASA astronomers, the Earth passes between them between April 10 and May 28, althoughe are the first two weeks of that month that are most interesting. Its dust grains are very fast. They travel at 66 kilometers per hour and are capable of producing real balls of light in the sky when they collide with our atmosphere. Video: 2016 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: Is the Universe a Simulation? (October 2020). The UN report proves us right: fracking must be stopped

At the Catholic University of Temuco, a group of sociology students presented the documentary MIAU. MIAU is an independent film made in Chile by "Insurrectional Movement for Self-Government" that covers a variety of different topics related to women's health, women's autonomy, and women's rights. It is a guide to the natural functions of our body and promotes a better understanding of how to care for and protect our bodies. Some of the topics it covers include: - Family relationships based on gender: growing up and watching the women in our lives being the ones in charge of cleaning the house, taking care of the children and cooking - Puberty: the challenge (both physical and psychological) of going through puberty as a girl and not having anyone to talk to, because these topics are taboo in society - Birth: the obstetric-gynecological violence surrounding hospital births, as well as home births - Abortion in hospitals: the violence that occurs when a woman goes to a hospital after having an abortion, and the violence that she suffers there - Misoprostol / misotrol abortion: the lack of clarity around the dosage of this drug and the confusing way it affects each body differently, and the dangers of performing an abortion alone at home - Alternative abortions: using herbs to abort and reconnect with your own body and the earth - Menstruation: the physiological functions of menstruation and how to perform a self-control with a speculum - Vaccines: the gendered way the government gives girls vaccines against diseases like HPV without an explanation of their causes - Breast exams: how to have a breast exam to check for cancerous tumors - Nutrition: various recipes for healthy juices that will lead to a better life and more connected with the body itself While this documentary is explicit at times (with the nudity required to explain most concepts) it is also incredibly important to show these aspects of our lives in an honest and direct way. The human body and especially the body of women, is masked by shame and social norms, in school and university texts they do not teach us about our anatomy, the real magnitude of our clitoris is hidden and the power of our wombs. This documentary tries to teach us more about the bodies in which we live. Especially in a patriarchal culture like the one that exists in Chile, the more women know about their physical and mental oppression, the stronger they will be to oppose it! Video: BBC The French Revolution - Tearing Up History (October 2020). Australia found a way to save water from plastic pollution (and we can do the same!)

Two South American countries already recognize the rights of rivers, lakes and mountains, as well as those of individuals and companies. This new approach challenges judicial conservatism and those who only want to extract economic gains from nature. Can a river or a mountain have rights? The answer comes from social organizations, indigenous peoples and critical academics: if companies have rights (human creation whose main purpose is profit), how can nature not have rights? The National Constitution of Ecuador and the national law of Bolivia contemplate the rights of nature. Judicial decisions in Colombia and regulations in New Zealand legislated in the same sense. And the National University of the Litoral inaugurated an unpublished course that challenges the conservatism of the judiciary: “Rights of nature. A theoretical, practical and interdisciplinary approach ”. In March 2017, the New Zealand Parliament granted legal personality status to the Whanganui River, requested by the indigenous Maori people. The watercourse, the third longest in the country, will have legal rights and duties and may be represented in court by a delegate from the State and another from the native people. "I know that the initial reaction of some will be to think that it is quite strange to give legal personality to a natural resource, but it is no more strange than a family foundation, a company or another type of society," said Chris Finlayson, Minister for the Negotiation of Treaties of New Zealand. "I am the river and the river is me", they explain from the Maori culture, difficult to understand for those who only visualize nature as an economic resource. For indigenous peoples, nature has always had rights, but now they are beginning to understand it from political power. In May 2017, it was Colombia's turn. The Constitutional Court declared, for the first time in the country, that a river "is subject to rights" and ordered its protection and conservation. It is the Atrato River, one of the largest in the country, which is affected by the illegal extraction of gold. The Court confirmed that the watercourse is vital for the life of the local communities and urged the State to protect it. Ximena González, spokeswoman for the Tierra Digna Center for Social Justice Studies, pointed out that the ruling creates a commission of "guardians of the Atrato River", made up of people from local communities and the national government. And it establishes the creation of a commission of experts to advise the guardians of the river that, in addition to protection, include a comprehensive intervention plan to recover it from contamination. The Centro de Estudios para la Justicia Social Tierra Digna acted on behalf of the Greater Community Council of the Popular Peasant Organization of Alto Atrato (Cocomopoca), the Greater Community Council of the Integral Peasant Association of Atrato (Cocomacia), the Association of Community Councils of the Bajo Atrato (Asocoba) and the Inter-Ethnic Forum Solidaridad Chocó (Fisch). "It is a very important, historical ruling for Colombia, because for the first time the rights of nature are given a place, in particular a river," said the spokesperson for the Center for Studies. There are also court rulings in Ecuador and India. The Constitution of Ecuador recognizes the rights of nature in article 71: “Nature or Pacha Mama, where life is reproduced and carried out, has the right to have its existence fully respected and the maintenance and regeneration of its vital cycles, structure , functions and evolutionary processes. Any person, community, people or nationality may demand that the public authority comply with the rights of nature ”. In Bolivia, it was sanctioned by law in December 2010. Article 1 states: “The purpose of this law is to recognize the rights of Mother Earth, as well as the obligations and duties of the Plurinational State and of society to guarantee respect for these. rights". It has ten articles. It establishes that Mother Earth has the right to life, to water, to clean air, to balance, to restoration, to live free from contamination. In Argentina, Senator Pino Solanas presented a bill in the same direction. "The exercise of the Rights of Nature requires the recognition, recovery, respect, protection, and dialogue of the diversity of feelings, values, knowledge, knowledge, practices, skills, transcendence, transformations, sciences, technologies and norms, of all cultures that seek to live in harmony with Nature ”. Creates the "defense of nature", whose mission is to ensure the "validity, promotion, dissemination and fulfillment of the Rights of Nature". It was presented in 2015 and had no treatment in the National Congress. It was presented again in 2017 and has not yet had a turn in the Constitutional Affairs Commission. The Faculty of Legal and Social Sciences of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral (based in Santa Fe) shook the conservatism of judicial training with the course “Rights of nature. A theoretical, practical and interdisciplinary approach ”. The general objective is “to contribute from a theoretical, practical and interdisciplinary perspective to the debate and reflection on one of the responses that, from Latin America, has been building in relation to the environmental problem in recent years: the recognition of nature as the subject of law, within the framework of models that are presented as alternatives to capitalism under the idea of ​​'good living', 'living well' ”. With a workload of 240 hours (an average of 30 hours per month), in charge of the teacher and researcher of Conicet Valeria Berros, it is explained that it is a process that began in Ecuador and Bolivia, with progress in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico , and with debates in the same vein at the United Nations. Among the specific objectives, the need to "extend legal subjectivity beyond human beings" stands out. “The course is important because it allows us to see that the right to a healthy environment or the regulation of natural resources are not the only way that exists to think about the ecological problem. Although both perspectives have assumed a preponderant role in recent decades, the truth is that the problems are getting worse and, therefore, it is even more relevant to investigate other legal translations present in the diversity of societies and worldviews, especially those that discuss anthropocentrism ”, explained Berros. A look that challenges the hegemonic idea of ​​the human being as the center, and absolute end, of everything. On the other hand, the teacher and researcher stressed that the new approach involves many disciplines: “It is becoming more and more visible that the law cannot continue only looking at itself, on the contrary, it needs to start a dialogue with other knowledge, not only those institutionalized as part of the natural sciences, the humanities and the social sciences, but rather those from struggle movements, indigenous peoples, health professionals deployed in the territory ”. Video: Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature in response to current crisis - Earth Day 2020 (October 2020). Bees declared the most valuable species on the planet Nio, Tesla's Chinese competitor about to screw it up Can having too much "good" cholesterol (HDL) be dangerous? The plastic nightmare "When China wakes up ... the world will shake"

Water is essential for life, since without it no living being could simply survive. Not surprisingly, any industrial society uses huge amounts of water for daily life, something that shows the importance that water has for life itself ... Despite having countless water resources, Argentina has a culture of inefficient use of water. water in almost all areas where it is used. Gloval Omnium (Spanish) company specializes in comprehensive water management. It currently covers 5.5 million people in more than 300 Spanish cities, in addition to having a presence in other foreign countries. Global Omnium is participating in the advanced study of the use of artificial wetlands, used as tertiary treatment for the purification of wastewater generated by small urban agglomerations, of less than 2,000 inhabitants, it did so through an article on 05/22/2018 . [mks_pullquote align = ”right” width = ”300 ″ size =” 20 ″ bg_color = ”# cbb3e2 ″ txt_color =” # 000000 ″] “Thousands of people have survived without love, none without water”. [/ mks_pullquote] The management of artificial purification wetlands will be studied to improve the quality of their effluents, naturalizing them to assimilate their characteristics to those of the receiving aquatic environment, and thus reduce their direct impact on it. Constructed purification wetlands are systems designed to reproduce and optimize pollutant removal processes in the same way that they take place in natural wetlands. 1) Generate knowledge to improve the management of artificial wetlands used in wastewater treatment. 2) Among the benefits of this technique, the following stand out, among others: obtaining good purification performance, low or no electricity consumption, or landscape integration. 3) In constructed wetlands, wastewater treatment is achieved through physical and biogeochemical processes. Wetlands provide effective nutrient sinks and buffer sites for organic and inorganic pollutants. This capacity is the mechanism behind artificial wetlands, to simulate a natural wetland for the purpose of treating wastewater from municipalities and companies. At the beginning of 2005, I realized that something was not working well in the town of Carmen de Areco - Province of Buenos Aires, due to the amount of white foam that was seen in the waters of the Areco River. It is obvious that since 2005 to date, little and nothing has been done for the river; This is why some of the measures that I would promote to seek its sanitation, or at least to help that pollution does not turn it into an open sewer over the years, as has happened with so many streams and rivers in our country . It is to promote the use of artificial wetlands, in the vicinity of cold stores, pig farms and the most diverse industries, so that the wastewater does not flow directly into the river beds. Since 2005, I have been expressing that the river has been polluted by phosphates (detergents) producing eutrophication. This greatly reduces the self-purifying power of the river by hindering bacterial activity. They also interfere with the flocculation and sedimentation processes in treatment plants. The importance and significance of artificial wetlands lies fundamentally in that they are a viable and sustainable alternative for the treatment of industrial, agricultural and domestic wastewater. Their implementation has a lower cost compared to conventional treatment systems, they are friendly to the landscape environment, they do not generate harmful by-products and they adapt to both climatic and urban conditions in Argentina. Deserving the river means knowing how to make use of it, love it, love its inhabitants, its environment and fundamentally hope that it never ceases to be what it is today, for our children and our grandchildren; and act accordingly. Deserving the river means respecting the regulations, educating yourself to adopt an attitude that contributes to improving the conditions of the river. In the country there is a deficit of infrastructure, human, institutional, financial and governance capital, which leads to scarcity situations, even though the region is rich in water. However, it has infinite possibilities for private water companies, which can invest in new projects, in the improvement of existing ones and in operation and maintenance services with qualified teams. In the popular imagination, rivers always represented the veins of the planet through which the liquid element that feeds, irrigates and oxygenates that enormous celestial body that we know as planet earth runs ... And today more than ever it is obvious that manipulation Its riverbeds is a very sensitive issue and one that has often caused more disturbances than solutions to riverine populations. Cristian Frers - Senior Technician in Environmental Management and Senior Technician in Social Communication (Journalist). 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A giant wave of almost 24 meters, recorded in the south of New Zealand A gigantic wave never recorded was located by a group of scientists near Campbell Island 700km south of New Zealand. What could be the tallest wave ever recorded in the southern hemisphere measured 23.8 meters high, the equivalent of an eight-story building. According to oceanographer Tom Durrant, this wave, which was measured on May 8 during a strong storm using a buoy, surpassed the previous record in the southern hemisphere, set at 22.03 meters in 2012. "To our knowledge, it is the highest wave ever recorded in the southern hemisphere," he said. The Southern Ocean is a unique ocean basin and is the least studied despite occupying22% of the global ocean area. The persistent and energetic wind conditions create enormous potential for wave growth, turning the Southern Ocean into the engine room for generating shock waves that travel across the planet. In fact, California surfers can expect power to hit their shores in about weeks. Although scientists were able to record this wave of almost 24 meters, the storm is estimated to have caused waves greater than 25 meters just north of the location of the buoy. The ‘significant wave height’ is the WMO standard value to characterize a sea state,approximately the average of the highest third of the measured waves. During this storm, the significant height of the wave reached 14.9 meters. This is also a record for the Southern Ocean, but falls short of the 19-meter world-record buoy measurement that was recorded in the North Atlantic during 2013. The largest wave recorded on the planet was a tsunami caused in 1958 by an earthquake in Lituya Bay in Alaska, which measured30.5 meters highaccording to Smithsonian Magazine, a publication of the American Institution for Scientific Research. Video: Hyundai Big Wave Mission 2007 - Fiordland New Zealand (October 2020). Garbage problems: causes, effects and solutions Lactose intolerance. This is what you should know Planting trees doesn't prevent climate change, but it can save us from being burned to death When are antibiotics used in farm animals and what is their effect on humans?

The trunk of these mammals is essential for their survival, they use it to eat and breathe, so specialists closely follow the evolution of the little elephant. Video: Baby elephant has lost its trunk! How can he survive now? (October 2020).

An interactive map of the ETC Group and the Boell Foundation shows where geoengineering is being deployed This interactive geoengineering map, prepared by the ETC Group and the Boell Foundation, is an attempt to denounce the global state of geoengineering, showing the scope of research and experimentation. There is no complete record of climate and meteorological control projects, so this map is necessarily partial. This document is an update of the map on “The World of Geoengineering”, published in 2012. That map documented almost 300 experiments and projects related to the field of geoengineering. Five years later, we show nearly 800 entries from identified projects. Projects for carbon capture, solar radiation management, climate modification and other approaches are included. But what is geoengineering? Bleaching clouds to reflect sunlight or using a chemical absorbent to trap carbon dioxide and then bury it in tanks underground. Those are some proposals of geoengineering that, in the battle against global warming, seek to use technologies to manipulate the climate. The use of these technologies could occur sooner than we imagine, its consequences as well. The beginnings of geoengineering, as these techniques are called, are for military use. At one time it was thought of using the climate as a weapon and from there arose the Convention on Environmental Modification for the non-use of this type of techniques in war. But for several years, geoengineering has been taken up by universities like Harvard, oil companies like Exxon and foundations like that of the computer entrepreneur Bill Gates, the richest man on the planet. The proposed techniques are many and varied. For example, ocean fertilization through the dumping of nutrients to grow phytoplankton that, in theory, will absorb carbon dioxide. Or the movement of bodies of water to obtain food for phytoplankton. Or the mechanical capture of gases. Or combine CO2 with calcifying minerals to obtain a product such as cement and use it in construction. Another option is the management of solar radiation, which involves the stratospheric injection of aerosols, the whitening of marine clouds to reflect light, or the thinning of cirrus clouds so that heat can escape into space. Or make genetically altered monoculture plantations so that they bounce the sun's rays. Another type of geoengineering is altering the weather by seeding clouds to change precipitation patterns. Video: Unite Europe 2017 - Visualizing geospatial big data in Unity (October 2020).

The greenest building From Italy and from a bird's eye view with Google Eart we can already conclude that something is happening in this corner. The architect Luciano Pia has a different vision of what a building intended for housing should be. Designed and developed the project of the building "25 Verde" with one overriding idea in mind, need to experience the feeling of a tree house. Five floors for housing are interspersed with trees, the steel of its structure and totally picturesque apartments that allow its inhabitants to live in a natural space within the city. A facade that hints at the feeling of a tree house. A example of green architecture whose building is home to 150 deciduous trees, which drop their leaves in the winter to allow to take advantage of the sunlight with its innumerable advantages in those cold winters. Homes designed with terraces that house and support large pots providing accessories natural to the building envelope. A green construction that houses courtyards full of trees, plants and ponds in its common areas, providing residents with areas of rest, peace, health ... etc. More information about the project from HERE. And to see all his images from HERE. A project that faithfully reflects the example of that green architecture that so many of us dream of finding to live. As a point to the article we want to add a link of interest HERE, where it delves into the definitions, concept errors, characteristics and examples of green and sustainable architecture with the heading… .. Why is green not sustainable? For those who need more information, two articles will show us all the needs, green buildings examples and their characteristics: The house plans article where the plans of 25 ecological houses of large architecture firms are provided. The article on bioclimatic houses. The concept of green architecture The reality the definition of green architecture refers to an erroneous translation of the denominations in English "Green buildings" or "Green architecture" where in reality it speaks of "Sustainable buildings" and "Sustainable architecture", so the concept sustainable or sustainable architecture. What is green architecture? ... It is the architecture that focuses on the design of buildings and the application of guidelines in architecture where theminimize negative impacts on the environment. The 4 most essential aspects of sustainable architecture are energy, materials, the location of the building and planning based on a bioclimatic design. Video: When Trees Meet Buildings (October 2020).

Here are some options for all those who can't get close to the egg, not even in baking. When you are vegan, or allergic to eggs, certain kitchen areas such as breads and cakes seem like a distant dream. What you need to know is how to replace the egg each time. 1. Vinegar and baking soda The chemical reaction will be the one that will have the same attributes of the egg in your recipe. To substitute 1 egg: 1 tablespoon of vinegar 1 teaspoon of baking soda 2. Flaxseeds They have a good amount of omega 3 and go very well with oats. It is a very healthy substitute for the egg. You have to pulverize the seeds, which can be done in the blender or in the coffee grinder. To substitute 1 egg: 1 teaspoon flaxseeds 3 tablespoons of water Both ingredients are stirred until they have a slightly gelatinous consistency, similar to egg yolk. Ideal for cookies, waffles and pancakes. 3. Banana The important thing about using the banana to substitute the egg is to keep in mind that it is going to give what you prepare a touch of that flavor, make sure that is what you want in your dish. To substitute 1 egg: 1/2 banana You have to undo the banana is to mash it with a fork, until it is like a creamy paste. It can be used for breads, pancakes, waffles, cupcakes, any dessert that goes well with a slight banana flavor. 4. Apple sauce This is another formula for when a little more moisture is needed in the saucer. The ideal is to choose the sauce that is not sweetened, but if it is to cook something sweet, the measure could work. Apple sauce is quite versatile and can also be used if you want to make something with less fat. This is accomplished by adding more apple sauce to replace the oil. To substitute 1 egg: 1/4 cup apple sauce 5. Egg substitute This is the one that is already prepared and is sold in boxes in specialized stores. It is a simple and very practical substitute. To substitute 1 egg: 1 teaspoon and a half of the egg substitute powder 1 tablespoon of water 6. Yeast powder Make a mixture with two tablespoons of baking powder, two tablespoons of water, and one tablespoon of oil. Use this formula for breads, cookies and cakes that require eggs. 7. Agar agar When you need to use only the egg white and you want to replace it to make meringues or other preparations, dissolve a tablespoon of agar in a tablespoon of water. Beat, let it rest for a few minutes and beat again. 8. Plums Take two or three plums, peel them, remove the pit and crush them. Use to substitute the egg in sweet preparations or in desserts. Video: Egg Substitutes for Baking Recipes Vegan u0026 Vegetarian Baking Gemmas Bold Baking Basics Ep 6 (October 2020).

Having a dog at home has a thousand good things. Company, love, tenderness, friendship, entertainment ... However, a dog also brings with it a multitude of responsibilities and carries a training that we must master if we want our pet to contribute and not remain so much at home as on the street. Hedog training(https://www.adiestrar-perros.com/adiestramiento-canino/) consists of a cluster oftechniques very varied to get our dog to respect certain protocols and react respectfully both in public and in private. Preventing it from barking at other animals, preventing it from getting out of control and trying to ensure that it is always under our command are the main objectives. However, to reach this phase it is necessary to work with our pet intensively and patiently for a long time. existdog training courses that can be very useful in extreme cases in which our dog has already received an initial education that has been ineffective. Theprices In these cases, rounds are usually 50 euros per session, in such a way that in ten classes we will notice great advances in the behavior of the dog. This option, in addition, is usually accompanied by severalPdf with instructions that explain the keys to dog training, so it can be the most complete option if our intention is to achieve fast and safe results. To complement this training there are also severaltricks that constitute afree basic trainingThese series of instructions can be extremely useful although they may not be enough by themselves to completely control our furry friend, so it would be interesting to combine them with the courses mentioned above. The infallible and universal tricks that we can find are the following: Positive reinforcement. Reward all that good action that our dog performs immediately, help him repeat them until they are automated. To achieve this it is only necessary to use cookies, toys, caresses and even walks. No to physical punishment: It is counterproductive and immoral. Associate actions with gestures: Our dog looks at us continuously, so our non-verbal language can help it understand what we are trying to convey to it. For this reason, it is interesting to use different gestures to ask him to sit down, get up, or stay still. Short, loud words: It will be useless if we baptize our dog with long names such as 'Scholastic'. Dogs perceive words of no more than two syllables more quickly, especially if they include strong vowels or consonants. In the same way, and as we do with your name, we can use short words to give you very specific instructions. Start soon: Yes, when they are puppies they are adorable and just want to play. And we just want to hug them. But it is mandatory to find time to start the training and to deny them certain things and encourage them to do others. Involve family members: It is useless if we follow all these tips if our partner or our children spoil our dog when we are not present. It is necessary to unify criteria and carry out the same actions so that the dog is clear how to act. Severity: We will never hit our dog, but that does not mean we renounce firmness. It is necessary to be severe with our tone of voice and even with our attitude in case the dog makes a mistake. They are intelligent animals that will realize very soon that we are angry with them. Respect their schedules: The dog is not the only one who must fulfill its obligations. If you notice that we do not respect your outing or play time, your training may suffer. Therefore it is necessary to dedicate time to them even though we have had a bad day. Our best friend will always be there to support us. Video: How To Train Your Dog To Listen No Matter What! (October 2020). The Argentine agricultural model neglects the right to food Man's war against Earth. Winning is losing everything

A UN report on species under threat presents alarming data on the loss of biodiversity on Earth. It is time for humanity to take note. Field being sprayed with pesticide. "Farm fields are being sprayed with pesticides and herbicides, which filter the soil and kill vital pollinators like bees, birds, and bats." Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo For a global danger to really gain respect these days, it has to threaten Armageddon. Climate change, for example, is a thing of apocalyptic movies: it is about floods, fires and famines. The loss of biodiversity, on the other hand, the decline of species on the planet, is located lower on the scale. It is about the death of bumblebees in Poland, or fewer species of fish in the Red Sea, or red squirrels that are driven out by gray ones. It's not an interesting subject for movies starring Dennis Quaid as a divorced scientist who was always right, and he tends to make headlines as a concern primarily for the bees and squirrels involved (perhaps with a line or two of experts). on chain effects). It doesn't seem to threaten the rest of us. That perspective is changing. The United Nations' first study of the natural systems that sustain the human diet has found that declining biodiversity is affecting the Earth's ability to produce food. Our food, he says, is now under "severe threat." The report finds that 20% of Earth's vegetated area has become less productive, and what is growing on it is close to being wiped out. The report mentions the Irish potato famine and cereal crop failures in the United States in the 20th century, and asks us to expect more of that in the future. How have we created this situation? Well, mainly due to our desperate attempts to produce food in the first place. Forests are being cut down to make room for farm fields, and farm fields are being sprayed with pesticides and herbicides, which filter the soil and kill vital pollinators like bees, birds, and bats. Cutting down large trees and plants increases the risk of flooding. However, above all, the problem is that we depend on monocultures (just one variety of potato or sugar cane), which is a great risk. It means that a single disease outbreak or climate change could wipe out large portions of the world's food supply. Two-thirds of the world's crops comprise just nine species, while the other 6,000 species of cultivated plants wilt, along with wild food sources. Progress is possible: Farmers must diversify and preserve wildlife, but so far it has been too slow: Only 1% of US farmland is certified organic. This should change. Biodiversity finally has its dramatic headline: will the world now start paying attention to bumblebees? • Martha Gill is a political journalist and former lobby correspondent The Guardian Video: The Bug Apocalypse (October 2020).

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Days ago, the Kimberly-Clark company announced that it would withdraw a line of Kotex brand tampons because they break down inside the users' bodies. What exactly are the affected products, which have caused infections, irritations, injuries and other problems. Those affected should seek medical help if they experience symptoms such as vaginal lesions, irritation, or urine infection. The recalled tampons are the “U by Kotex Sleek”, of regular absorption, which are sold in the United States and Canada, following complaints from several users. The failure of the product was that the tampons untangled inside the body or fell apart when removed, with the risk of leaving some small pieces of the tampon inside the vaginal canal. In the latter case, some users have required medical attention. Other consumers have claimed to have suffered infections, vaginal lesions, irritations and other discomforts caused by this product. "This recall will not affect any other Kotex product," the company said. Kimberly-Clark noted that the recall is limited to tampons in this line manufactured within a period of two years, between October 7, 2016 and October 16, 2018; were distributed in both countries between October 17, 2016 and October 23, 2018. To recognize that faulty batch, you can simply check the specific lot numbers found on the bottom of the package. The lot number appears within the red box. For added peace of mind, Kimberly-Clark includes on this website a complete list of affected batches as well as other practical information on the recall of this product. They can also call the Kimberly-Clark Customer Service team at 1-888-255-3499 between 7:30 AM and 7:00 PM (Central Time) Monday through Friday. The company asked consumers in possession of the tampons to stop using them immediately. With information from: https://diario.mx/ https://www.univision.com/ Video: Why I Stopped Using Tampons 5 Years Ago u0026 What Happened Afterward. #LadyBusiness Vol. 1 (October 2020).

The International Water Institute (IHE) presented, on the occasion of World Toilet Day, celebrated on November 19, a portable toilet for emergency situations that can be transferred to refugee and displaced camps, and that stores organic waste separately for produce energy. The idea of ​​this day is to remember that some 4,500 million people lack a safe toilet in their home connected to the sewage system, and almost 900 million defecate in the open air: in rivers, fields or streets. Figures that are difficult to assume, which form the backbone of the work of the first European laboratory dedicated to the investigation of faecal sludge, opened at the International Water Institute IHE Delft, in the Dutch city. “If we can record how many times the bathroom is visited and the weight of the person using it to, for example, see if they are losing weight continuously, we could conclude that the person is probably sick and should go to the doctor before it is late ”, explains to EFE the sanitary engineer Damir Brdjanovic. The difficulties and dangers of living without a toilet are starkly presented in a scene from the filmSlumdog Millionaire (2008) by English director Danny Boyle: the moment when Jamal, the main character, throws himself as a child into the excrement pile of a precarious outdoor latrine to collect a photo. In India alone, 60% of the population is forced to defecate like this, and human feces contain viruses, bacteria and parasites. Once ingested due to dirty water, they can cause from cholera to polio, in addition to worm infestations, which delay growth and alter cognitive functions, according to United Nations data. Portable toilet The toilet, exposed in the garden of the institute, is made up of a sink located next to the entrance door to the bathroom and at the back contains three containers placed in the lower part and in which the water is collected separately dirty, excrement and urine. In addition, on the roof there is a water tank and solar panels that provide energy to the sensor system installed on the ground to detect the levels of use and hygiene, and that are also in charge of blocking the bathroom once it is full. “The bathroom would close automatically and could no longer be used. At the same time, the operator receives a notice that this bathroom is closed and that he must come or send someone to clean it ”, added the scientist from the IHE, located in Delft (Netherlands) and supported by UNESCO. Once used and with the person outside, a disinfection system is activated to “kill all bacteria” and thus avoid one of the great problems of the lack of sanitation services: the spread of diseases through fecal remains. The goal is "to have a toilet that can function effectively, is clean, and allows residual debris to be safely removed to be treated later where appropriate," says Brdjanovic. Pilot test The first generation of this toilet was tested in a camp in Tacloban (Philippines), which was hosting some 900 refugees, and this pilot test helped optimize two new specimens that will now be sent to Nairobi, “to an area with a Muslim population” to , again, collect usage data and improve the next version. In addition, this toilet has an "anti-rape emergency button" installed, he points out by way of example, which even allows the user to launch an alarm signal if something goes wrong, an issue that has made "in the Philippines people have felt safer taking refuge inside ”than in other parts of the camp. “In Africa, for example, they are used to not using a lot of water for hygiene because it is a scarce resource, unlike Asia, where there is excess water and they have other ways of using a toilet. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. Likewise, if it is an area where it does not rain, the reservoir can also be filled with water manually ”, explains Brdjanovic. Artificial intelligence This bathroom makes use of artificial intelligence and at the same time, helps to collect information on the frequency, duration and mode of use of the service in individuals, such as men, women and children separately, something that had not been possible until now. But that is not its only novel quality, but also the collection of the remains for later use: "Do you know that the same amount of energy can be produced from a kilo of excrement as with a kilo of coal?", Indicates Brdjanovic. The idea is "to move them to a centralized place where they can be treated in an appropriate way" and under surveillance, thinking about "what resources can be obtained from the collected elements," especially to produce energy, adds the Mexican scientist Carlos López Vázquez. Some 4.5 billion people do not have safe access to sanitation, of which 900 million defecate directly in the open, according to UN figures. In addition, at least 40 girls and boys die every hour in the world due to diarrhea, caused by the lack of sanitation, hygiene and drinking water, the NGO Oxfam Intermón denounced today. Video: How a Kerala couple built a sustainable mud house and forest of their dreams (October 2020).