Americans who live in mostly black or Hispanic neighborhoods are FOUR TIMES more likely to die of COVID-19 compared to people living in white neighborhoods, study finds
Researchers looked at all 3,142 U.S. counties and determined how much of the population was black and Hispanic as well as income inequality
A community that was 20% black had a COVID-19 infection rate of 1,000 out of 100,000 and a mortality rate of 25 out of 100,000
In comparison, counties in which 50% was black saw an coronavirus infection rate of 2,000 out of 100,000 and a mortality rate rate of 60 out of 100,000
For Hispanics, a community with a 20% Hispanic population saw an infection rate of 1,500 out of 100,000 and a mortality rate of 25 out of 100,000
January 8th, 2021, by Tim Radford
Life on the city’s streets will become harder for many.
In the concrete jungle, the most dramatic high-rise could be the mercury. Urban dwellers should expect much hotter cities.
LONDON, 8 January 2021 − Tomorrow’s metropolises will feel the heat: by the close of the century, assuming that nations act on vows to drastically reduce fossil fuel use, hotter cities − on average almost 2°C warmer than today − will be home to billions of people.
And if humans go on − as is the case now − tipping ever-greater levels of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, then Paris and Philadelphia, Shanghai and São Paulo, Lagos and London, Beijing and Baghdad could see an average rise of 4.4°C.
Shipwreck Filled With Treasure and Elephant Tusks Sheds Light on 16th-Century Ivory Trade
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Elephant tusks pulled from the 16th-century Bom Jesus shipwreck. (Image: National Museum of Namibia)
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A trove of elephant tusks found in the cargo hold of an old Portuguese shipwreck is yielding new insights into the 16th-century ivory trade and lost African elephants.