Climate change ‘has dented global agricultural productivity’
Andean farmers harvest their crops. Climate change has hit agriculture in warmer climates such as Latin America and Africa hardest, according to a US study. Copyright: Zoraida Portillo
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Private-sector health care workers continued their protests in Mexico City last week to demand that they receive COVID-19 vaccinations. Doctors, nurses, dentists and other health workers congregated at a train station in Mexico City on April 5 to protest the failure by Mexico City’s Health Secretariat (Sedesa) head Olivia López to hold a meeting that morning to discuss a national plan for vaccinating private-sector health workers.
Instead of showing up for the meeting to be held in Mexico City at the Naval Medical School where they had protested the week before López sent a mid-level functionary to receive their petition with no intention to engage in discussions. Sedesa claims that López made no promise to meet, that she knew nothing about it, and that it is an issue for the federal level.
Teams from 3 US oil states in worldwide petroleum quiz bowl
April 12, 2021 GMT
Universities from Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma will compete against teams from around the world in a petroleum engineering quiz bowl, and a second Texas school and universities from Canada and Mexico have a chance.
The University of Texas at Austin and the University of Louisiana at Lafayette qualified for the Society of Petroleum Engineers’ international PetroBowl competition as first- and second-place finishers in North American super-regionals.
The University of Oklahoma qualified as last year’s world champions to be among 32 contestants worldwide during the society’s annual conference Sept. 21-23. Unless pandemic restrictions make a second online competition necessary, the championships will be in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
A group of designers known as Colectivo C733 has completed a brick shopping centre in northern Mexico topped with roof volumes that bring in daylight and allow hot air to escape.
Matamoros Market takes its name from the city where it is located – Matamoros, in the northeastern state of Tamaulipas – where it is set in a residential area on the outskirts.
Matamoros Market has a modular roof
The shopping centre was conceived for a competition calling for prototypes for public facilities in the country s vulnerable areas.
Mexico City s Colectivo C733 created a design that is intended to be durable, flexible and partly prefabricated. The collective consists of Gabriela Carrillo, Carlos Facio, Eric Valdez, Israel Espín and José Amozurrutia.