26 May 2021 9:00
This introductory session to the K4D Learning Journey on International Nature will broadly introduce the interrelationship/integration between biodiversity, ecosystems, ecosystem services, human activity, and climate change. It will highlight how human activity is driving ecosystem degradation and biodiversity loss in combination with climate change, as well as the relationship between biodiversity and climate change and how the dynamics of each are mutually reinforcing.
The session will make the case that to take action on climate change, biodiversity and poverty reduction, we need to protect, conserve and restore Nature, drawing on key arguments around the urgency and scale of the problem. It will define Nature interventions, which include Nature-based Solutions.
There’s a tree-planting frenzy everywhere you look. In August 2019, the state of Uttar Pradesh in northern India announced that more than a million Indians had planted 220 million trees on a single day. A month earlier, Ethiopia had made a similar declaration: more than 350 million trees had been planted in one day. “Always […]
The week s best parenting advice: May 11, 2021 Jessica Hullinger
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The FDA has approved Pfizer s COVID-19 vaccine for kids ages 12 through 15, paving the way for expanded vaccine eligibility in the U.S. as the country strives for herd immunity. But according to one survey, only about 30 percent of parents plan to immediately vaccinate their children, with many opting instead for a wait-and-see approach, according to
The New York Times. Twenty-three percent of surveyed parents said they wouldn t vaccinate their kids at all. Rebekah Diamond at The Washington Post empathetically recommends hesitant parents take comfort in the reassuring data on the COVID vaccines, explaining that a clinical trial of 2,300 children showed Pfizer s vaccine produced stronger immune responses in adolescents than those found in young adults, and that the side-effects were comparable. The what-ifs of COVID infection and an uncontrolled pandemic pose far more danger and have far mor
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Although the fairy tale of the wicked stepmother is a tale as old as time, the effects of blending children with their new stepfamilies may not be as grim as once thought.
In fact, new research shows that stepchildren are not at a disadvantage compared to their peers from single-parent households and actually experience better outcomes than their halfsiblings good news for the more than 113 million Americans that are part of a steprelationship.
Led by East Carolina University anthropologist Ryan Schacht and researchers from the University of Utah, the study, Was Cinderella just a fairy tale? Survival differences between stepchildren and their half-siblings, is available in the May edition of the