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"My house gets flooded every single year,” 16-year old Diana Ramirez told City Limits, one of many New York City youth who took to the streets in the lead up to Earth Day to demand people in power stop funding fossil fuels.
A company launched last year is introducing a new fracking technique that uses carbon dioxide (CO2) instead of water to extract gas from underground—and it hopes to do business in New York. But environmental advocates see the plans as an attempt to circumvent the state’s prohibition on fracking.
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Coinciding crises: how COVID-19 and climate change are putting pressure on health systems worldwide – and how we can prepare for the future Format Malaria has always been a problem in Afghanistan, especially in the eastern and south-eastern provinces. Successful malaria control programmes, including with UNDP, have dramatically decreased incidents of the disease, however climate change threatens increased risk of transmission. © UNDP Afghanistan/Omer Sadaat By Mariana Simões, Regional Technical Specialist on Climate Change Adaptation (Tw: @MarianaSim0es) and Mashida Rashid, Public Health ...
Brazilian officials said Thursday that a coronavirus vaccine made by a Chinese company was effective, bolstering the chances of approval for a second Chinese inoculation that could be rolled out in much of the developing world. Officials in the state of São Paulo, where a prominent medical research institute carried out a large study of the vaccine made by the Beijing-based Sinovac, said the inoculation had an efficacy rate of 78 percent. The vaccine prevented all participants from developing serious and mild complications from the virus, officials said, calling it a highly effective prevent...