São Paulo. Cape Town. Now Santiago and Los Angeles. Cities around the world are being forced to live with less water, as global warming melts glaciers, diminishes snow packs and exacerbates decades of water mismanagement. Not just less water for now. Maybe less water forever.
2022-04-29
Environmental activists, distraught by the government’s slow pace of action on climate change, amassed in front of the White House Saturday afternoon, calling on President Biden and Congress to swiftly pass a climate bill that has been stalled in the Senate since December. The White House demonstration was one of dozens of “Fight for Our Future” rallies held across the country to press the government to cut the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet, capping a week of events timed to coincide with Earth Day. (..)
2022-04-24
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(..) A decisão de funcionários de um armazém da Amazon em Nova York de participar de um sindicato, anunciada no início do mês, foi recebida não apenas como uma vitória inédita para trabalhadores da empresa, mas também como um evento de significado histórico dentro do movimento trabalhista nos Estados Unidos. (..) em votação em 1º de abril, funcionários do JFK8, um enorme depósito da Amazon com mais de 8 mil empregados localizado em Staten Island, na cidade de Nova York, aprovaram a sindicalização. (..)
Essa iniciativa vitoriosa foi diferente de outros esforços do tipo, que costumam empregar organizadores profissionais. A campanha em Nova York foi encabeçada pelos próprios funcionários do armazém, com recursos limitados, arrecadados por meio de um site de financiamento coletivo. (..)
One recent Friday afternoon far-right militia figure Ammon Bundy started a live video feed on his YouTube channel in the wake of being arrested on trespassing charges at a hospital in Idaho, where he is running for governor. (..) Addressing his followers, he told them: “I’m calling on you to put off whatever you’re doing tomorrow, and come to [the judge’s] house … Patriot groups all across Idaho and around the country, I cannot try to hold you back any longer.” (..) Diego Rodriguez, Bundy’s campaign consultant and friend, is the grandfather of the child at the center of a controversy in which even the far-right deputy governor, Janice McGeachin, has become embroiled. An ultra-converative pastor, Rodriguez is emblematic of the Christian fringe pushing to create a US “theocracy” in Idaho. (..)
20220-04-12
(..) The provision would "require local boards of education, local school superintendents, and the governing bodies of charter schools to prohibit" such discrimination, according to the bill. It would also prohibit the discussion of certain concepts such as "one race is inherently superior to another race" or "the United States of America is fundamentally racist." (..) Georgia is among a number of states with Republican-controlled legislatures that have sought to legislate what can be taught in schools.
(..) As Sri Lanka has descended into its worst financial crisis since independence, with food, fuel, medicine and electricity becoming increasingly scarce, and calls for the president Gotabaya Rajapaksa – frequently referred to as Gota – to step down, 50-year-old Upul, who lives in a poor northern suburb of the city, is among those who have been pushed to the brink of survival. As petrol became scarce and expensive, Upul was no longer able to afford repayments on his rented rickshaw and lost his only means of income. Now he and his four children survive only on rice and water. Vegetables and milk powder are just too expensive these days. (..)
Lawmakers in Oklahoma on Tuesday approved a near-total ban on abortion, making it the latest Republican-led state to forge ahead with stringent abortion legislation as the Supreme Court weighs a case that could overturn Roe v. Wade later this year. The measure, Senate Bill 612, would make performing an abortion “except to save the life of a pregnant woman in a medical emergency” a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The Oklahoma House voted 70 to 14 to send the bill, which passed the Senate last year, to Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Republican who promised in September to sign “every piece of pro-life legislation” that came to his desk. (..)
2022-04-08
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O conselheiro econômico da Casa Branca, Jared Bernstein, afirmou nesta sexta-feira, 1º, que os preços do petróleo e da gasolina recuaram após liberação de reservas especiais, mas disse que se trata de um “mercado global”, e que outros fatores interferem nas cotações. Em coletiva de imprensa, o economista disse que o movimento mão é o suficiente no longo prazo, e que “é uma ponte para ajudar consumidores” durante a recente alta nos preços.
Peru’s embattled president Pedro Castillo has banned residents of the capital, Lima, from leaving their homes in an attempt to quell nationwide protests over soaring fuel and fertiliser prices caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. In a televised address just before midnight on Monday, Castillo announced a curfew from 2am until 11.59pm on Tuesday, claiming the measure would “protect the fundamental rights of all people”.
“Ao Estadão, um dos menores que vive no local disse que o pai mora na zona leste e a mãe, em Minas Gerais com a avó. Ele saía todo dia da zona leste para vender bala na Avenida Paulista e voltava à noite para casa. Foi quando conheceu outros meninos que também vendiam doces no local e decidiu não voltar mais para casa para viver no vão livre do Masp. "Minha mãe mora muito longe e o meu pai briga muito comigo", disse."Eles dizem que não querem sair porque 'a Paulista dá dinheiro' e não vão voltar para a área de onde vieram", relatou um conselheiro tutelar.”
The third segment of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report is being overshadowed, just like the previous one. Scientists fear that their last-ditch climate warnings are going unheeded amid international turmoil caused by the war in Ukraine, and soaring energy prices.
The third segment of the landmark scientific report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – which could be the last comprehensive assessment of climate science to be published while there is still time to avoid the worst ravages of climate breakdown – will be published on Monday, warning that the world is not shifting quickly enough to a low-carbon economy. (..)
La inflación ha llegado con fuerza a la economía y afecta muy claramente a la cesta de la compra. La inflación interanual rompe moldes en España -en marzo ha escalado hasta el 9,8%-, pero lo más preocupante es el diferencial del incremento de los precios en relación con Europa. (..)
