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On the outskirts of some small Indigenous communities in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, a few volunteer guards keep watch along roads blocked by makeshift barricades of chains, stones and wood. The invader they are trying to stop is COVID-19. For many of Mexicos Indigenous people, poor and ignored by state and federal governments, the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic is one that rests primarily with themselves.

The wealthy Northern Hemisphere has already reserved most of the worldwide vaccine supplies for itself. But developing countries are in desperate need of vaccines too.

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FM Qureshi discusses Economic Diplomacy with Pakistani Envoys in Europe February 11, 2021 ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: As part of the government’s economic outreach initiative and in line with the Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi’s focus, the fourth Virtual Envoys meeting on Economic Diplomacy was held on Thursday focusing on Europe. Pakistan’s Mission in Athens, Berlin, Brussels, Budapest, Copenhagen, Dublin, Minsk, Lisbon, Prague, Sarajevo, Sofia, and Vienna participated in the meeting. ...

Researchers examined changes in how organ donation from deceased donors differed by race and ethnicity in the United States over time.

 E-Mail IMAGE: Annual wet-bulb Cooling Degree Days CDDwb (°C-days) in the baseline and the specific warming level scenarios. view more  Credit: See the paper Space cooling already accounts for 14% of residential electricity demand in Brazil, and it is expected to increase further because of climate change. Very few studies investigate the relationship between climate change, cooling needs, and electricity demand. In a new study in Energy and Buildings, a team of researchers from Un...

Step aside, spinach and fish — there's a new superfood. Pulses often go unnoticed, but they have the potential to improve nutrition worldwide and help the climate. On World Pulses Day, they're finally getting their due.

The Canadian government seems to be forgetting its responsibilities to the most vulnerable populations in the global community

 E-Mail With rapid educational expansion in many developing countries, much progress has been made in terms of access to education. According to a new IIASA-led study, being in school is however not the same as learning and this expansion in quantity may come at the expense of quality, with the possible negative implications of the current COVID-19 pandemic on schooling possibly exacerbating the situation. Given that skills are one of the key drivers of socioeconomic development, a global and...

 E-Mail IMAGE: Intentionally set fires are a major source of air pollution in Africa, but they are declining in at least part of the continent. Here, a Kenyan farmer manages a fire. view more  Credit: Kyu Lee/Earth Institute, Columbia University Often, when populations and economies boom, so does air pollution--a product of increased fossil-fuel consumption by vehicles, industry and households. This has been true across much of Africa, where air pollution recently surpassed AIDS as th...