‘Staggering’ rise in climate emergencies in last 20 years, new disaster research shows

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The first 20 years of this century have seen a “staggering” rise in climate disasters, UN researchers said on Monday, while also maintaining that “almost all nations” have failed to prevent a “wave of death and illness”…

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Exile (2020)

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https://youtu.be/lwi9Rf6CkUY After a frustrating day of work, Xhafer (Mišel Matičević) returns home to find that someone has hung a dead rat at his front gate. The question of who did…

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She Was Racially Abused by Hospital Staff as She Lay Dying. Now a Canadian Indigenous Woman’s Death Is Forcing a Reckoning on Racism

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When Joyce Echaquan, a 37-year-old Indigenous Canadian woman, began experiencing stomach pains, she checked herself into a hospital in Joliette, Quebec. But she did not get the help she needed. Instead, hospital…

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