Nature’s dangerous decline ‘unprecedented,’ species extinction rates ‘accelerating’
1 million species threatened with extinction
• The New York Times –Front page: Humans Are Speeding Extinction and Altering the Natural World at an ‘Unprecedented’ Pace
• The Washington Post —Front page: One million species face extinction, U.N. report says. And humans will suffer as a result
• National Geographic: One million species at risk of extinction, UN report warns
• Le Figaro: Début mardi de l’assemblage du réacteur à fusion du projet Iter
• The Washington Post: France’s global nuclear fusion device a puzzle of huge parts
• BBC, Science: Iter: World’s largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly
• Forbes: ITER, The World’s Largest Nuclear Fusion Project: A Big Step Forward
• The New York Times, Science: A Dream of Clean Energy at a Very High Price
15 Million Babies Born Too Soon
1.1 Million Preterm Babies Die Every Year, but with inexpensive treatment 75 percent could survive
• The New York Times —Front page: U.S. Lags in Global Measure of Premature Births
• BBC: More than one in 10 babies worldwide born prematurely
• The Guardian: 75% of deaths of premature babies are preventable, says report
New Harvard Study: Who, Where and Why Americans Live Longer or Die Sooner
More than 30 years separate Americans with the greatest life expectancies from those with the lowest. The new study, Eight Americas: Investigating Mortality Disparities Across Races, Counties and Race-Counties in the United States
• TIME: Live Here and Prosper
The Truth Behind the Paris Agreement Climate Pledges
Almost 75 percent of 184 Paris Agreement pledges were judged insufficient to slow climate change
• The Guardian: Most countries’ climate plans ‘totally inadequate’ – experts
• Euronews: Most countries’ climate targets ‘totally insufficient’ — study
• El País: Solo el 20% de los países está en la senda para cumplir con el Acuerdo de París
• Die Welt: Bericht: Klimaschutz-Pläne weltweit meist unzureichend
• Newsweek: ‘Too Little, Too Late’: Just 36 Countries Have Made Paris Agreement Pledges That Could Slow Climate Change
New Partnership Expands Access to Contraception for 27 Million Women and Girls in Low-Income Countries
A new partnership will make a safe, effective, long-acting, reversible method of contraception available to more than 27 million women in the world’s poorest nations
• The New York Times: International Donors Get Bayer to Cut Price of Implantable Birth Control for the Poor
• The Associated Press: Clinton, others announce contraception deal
Some 100 nations provide little or no relief for patients in serious pain
Almost 26 million die suffering, many without a 3-cent morphine tablet
This global pain crisis can be solved easily
• The New York Times: ‘Opiophobia’ Has Left Africa in Agony. Uganda has a strategy for giving scarce morphine to patients in pain. But many poor nations won’t emulate it, over fear of an opioid epidemic.
• The Associated Press: Millions die suffering amid global opioid gap, report says
• Indo-Asian News Service: Around 26 mn die without morphine tablets: Report
Mothers, newborns, young children and adolescents lose 20 percent of health and social services to COVID-19
“COVID-19 is making a bad situation worse.”
• Voice of America: Women, Children Suffer as Health Care Resources Go to Fight COVID
• Forbes: Covid-19 Is Making It Harder For Women And Children To Access Vital Health Care Services
• Indo-Asian News Service: Mothers, newborns lose 20% health services due to Covid-19: Study
• BBC Brasil: Coronavírus: falta de pré-natal e vacinas matará milhares de mães e crianças, alerta relatório
• The New York Times: A NATION CHALLENGED: SECURITY; Experts Agree On the Need To Safeguard Nuclear Sites
• Financial Times
• The Washington Post: Nuclear Experts’ Nightmare: Terrorists Steal a Warhead
‘Remarkable Results’ Made in Effort to Eliminate Blinding Trachoma in the Developing World
Pfizer commits to increase treatments from current eight million to 135 million over next five years, a 15-fold expansion
• The New York Times: Effort to Halt Blinding Disease Worldwide With Single-Dose Drug
• The Washington Post: Program Targets a Blinding Infection in 5 Countries
CGD Ranks CO2 Emissions from Power Plants Worldwide
For the first time, the CO2 emissions of 50,000 power plants worldwide, the globe’s most concentrated source of greenhouse gases, have been compiled into a massive new data base, called CARMA—Carbon Monitoring for Action.
• The Associated Press: New interactive database shows global warming gases by plants, companies, towns
• Reuters: China power plant emissions to rise 60 pct by 2017