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Here’s how to find out if your workplace’s return-to-office plans are actually safe. Rachel Gutman ,
Lidia Morawska has been working in her office for months. You might think that’s because she’s an aerosols expert, and her work is crucial for helping bring the pandemic to heel. But really, it’s because she’s an aerosols expert at Queensland University of Technology, in Australia. The country has recorded only three cases of community transmission of the coronavirus in the past week. Although Australian offices and classrooms have lowered their maximum capacities and are still observing social-distancing guidelines, Morawska told me, no one wears a mask to work, except in the rare case of a local outbreak. “Basically, life is back to normal,” she said.
Australia Isn t Doing Enough to Address Climate Change | Opinion On 5/6/21 at 12:00 PM EDT
Australia should receive a mighty F for its failure to confront climate change our churlish government is in denial. Prime Minister Scott Morrison s blustering, factually questionable presentation at the recent Leaders Summit on Climate exposed to the world how embarrassingly ill-prepared Australia is for the social, economic and environmental impact of its reliance on coal and water-intensive agriculture.
Likely, the forests won t burn down, sea levels won t swallow up our neighbors in the Pacific and lead to major wars over scarce resources in Morrison s lifetime nor in the lifetime of his government, so who can blame him for being so disinterested in the plight of Australians now, and for generations to come?
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Worth 1000 words: how world saw Australia’s black summer & how we did
Australia’s ‘black summer’ of bushfires was depicted on the front pages of the world’s media with images of wildlife and habitat destruction, caused by climate change, while in Australia the toll on ordinary people remained the visual front-page focus.
Visual communication analysis of bushfire related front-page images in Sydney Morning Herald over three months and 119 overseas media outlets’ front pages on the megafires.
International media imagery portrayed our ‘black summer’ as an environmental and ecological apocalypse
In Australia, front-page images were dominated by the megafires’ effect on people particularly firefighters.
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United StatesFactbox: Who are the first members of Facebook s oversight board?
Elizabeth Culliford
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A 3D printed Facebook logo is seen in this illustration picture taken May 4, 2021. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration
Facebook Inc s (FB.O) independent oversight board, which on Wednesday upheld the company s ban on former U.S. President Donald Trump, currently consists of 20 members.
Here is a list of the board members:
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CATALINA BOTERO-MARINO
Botero-Marino is a Colombian attorney who was the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights of the Organization of American States from 2008 to 2014. She is now Dean of the Universidad de los Andes Faculty of Law.