‘A scourge of the Earth’: grasshopper swarms overwhelm US west
The drought has created ideal conditions for grasshopper eggs to hatch and for the insatiable eaters to survive into adulthood They’re arriving in swarms so dense it can appear the…
Oregon’s governor worries heat wave a ‘harbinger of things to come’
Kate Brown said the weather emergency was similar to the Covid pandemic. Oregon Gov. Kate Brown said Sunday that the state is undertaking a review of its response to the…
11 million girls worldwide at risk of not returning to school after COVID-19, U.N. says
Rachel Muthoni, a 19-year-old from Irimba village in Tharaka-Nithi county, Kenya, has missed about seven months of school. At times, she didn't have enough money for fees or even food.…
Sixty years of climate change warnings: the signs that were missed (and ignored)
The effects of ‘weird weather’ were already being felt in the 1960s, but scientists linking fossil fuels with climate change were dismissed as prophets of doom 2021 In August 1974,…
Heat waves kill people—and climate change is making it much, much worse
A recent study found that more than a third of all heat deaths worldwide can be pinned on climate change. Parts of the U.S. are feeling the danger now. Heat…
COVID Infections in Israel Spike by 50 Percent
Forty-two percent of Israelis who caught COVID on Monday were vaccinated, spurring concerns over the efficacy of the vaccine against the highly contagious delta variant The Health Ministry reported 501…
When Palestinians Are Represented Positively in History Lessons, Israeli Students’ Trust in Them Grows
A new study shows that Jewish Israeli youth want to be exposed to differing narratives and discussions in the classroom – and those who are take a more positive approach…
DC-Cam’s Community Genocide Memorial, Prey Veng Province
A Community Genocide Memorial recently built by the Documentation Center of Cambodia (DC-Cam) in Prey Veng province. DC-Cam has built the Community Genocide Memorial for over 30 locations in Cambodia’s…
The Neutral Ground (2021)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoDaHOii5o4 An official selection of the 2021 Tribeca Film Festival, “The Neutral Ground” begins in 2015 as Hunt documents a raucous New Orleans City Council meeting about the removal of four Confederate…
UN Makes Landmark Call to Address Systemic Racism
International Probe of Police Violence Urgently Needed (Geneva) – United Nations member countries at the UN Human Rights Council should take decisive action to carry out the UN High Commissioner…
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