The aquatic and human health consequences of pharmaceuticaldrugs entering the environment through wastewater treatment plants is not yet well understood.
6 August 2018 (UN Environment)* — As the world’s population expands and we become wealthier, drugs and chemical-based care products become more prevalent.
While pharmaceuticals are essential for human health and well-being, less is known on the effects they have on the freshwater sources on which we depend for our existence, and their impact on human health and biota.
The occurrence of pharmaceutical substances in the environment is of global concern.
The Conversation* – Throughout history, Indigenous peoples have been responsible for the development of many technologies and have substantially contributed to science.
Indigenous knowledge has aided and enhanced modern science and technology for centuries, Natan Obed, president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, speaks about climate change at the global COP22 conference in Marrakech, Morocco, in November 2016.(AP Photo/Mosa’ab Elshamy) | Photo from The Conversation.
Science is the pursuit of knowledge. Approaches to gathering that knowledge are culturally relative. Indigenous science incorporates traditional knowledge and Indigenous perspectives, while non-Indigenous scientific approaches are commonly recognized as Western science.
Africa is bleeding, but slowly waking up, trying to move forward. There is no doubt that the momentum is building, writes Andre Vitchek.
The inspection and sale of a Negro| Brantz Mayer |Public Domain
4 August 2018 (teleSUR)* — At times, the situation in Africa may appear desperate. The plunder and genocide in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) goes on; the French neo-colonialist policies in Central and West Africa are throwing entire nations into turmoil and despair.
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Mostly implanted (often by Western allies) jihadi cadres are active in dozens of countries, including Nigeria, Kenya and Mali.
Western imperialism has been destroying the continent for centuries.
GREENPEACE* – Europe is burning. We’ve seen the headlines about catastrophic fires from the Mediterranean to the Arctic. Blazes are also ravaging the Great Northern Forest from Sweden in the west, to the Russian Far East.
3 August 2018 (ICAN – International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons)* – Next week marks 73 years since two atomic bombs were dropped over the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Hundreds of thousands of people were killed and maimed, and the effects are still being felt today.
But while the mushroom clouds became iconic symbols of mass destruction, and the paper cranes a symbol of hope for a nuclear-free world, there are many things you may not know – or may have forgotten – that are really important if we’re going to make sure this never happens again.
The PT said it will formalize Saturday at its National Convention the presidential candidacy of former leftist president Lula.
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Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. | Photo: Twitter / @ptbrasil
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4 August 2018 (teleSUR)* — Brazil’s Workers’Party (PT) presented former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s five-point government program for re-election as the party also said it will formalize Saturday [4 August 2018] at its National Convention, in the city of Sao Paulo the presidential candidacy of the former leftist president, who has been unjustly imprisoned since April 7.
3 August 2018 (teleSUR)* — “I’m totally freaked out by what’s happening, especially here in Rio,” said 40-year-old soap opera star and father of three, Thiago Lacerda.
Brazil’s 2019 budget may result in the end of educational grants for graduate students in the scientific fields. | Photo: Portal.MEC.gov.br/
In recent years, Brazil’s wealthy along with its highly-educated University graduates, doctors, lawyers, even TV and film stars, have been fleeing the South American country to places such as Portugal, Miami and Orlando (in United States) in search of stability as the poor continue to bear the brunt of the ongoing political and economic crisis.
Protecting vulnerable people in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) from the latest Ebola Virus outbreak is going to be “very, very complex”, given the huge logistical challenges and ongoing conflict there, the World Health Organization (WHO) on 3 August 2018 said.
WHO | WHO team with the help of local residents hack their way through the Equatorial forest to bring Ebola vaccine to remote communities in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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“We know for example that there have been around 20 deaths,” Dr. Peter Salama, Deputy Director General of Emergency Preparedness and Response, told journalists in Geneva.
UN Environment* — The ongoing global movement for eliminating plastics is gaining momentum in Africa. Several countries are now taking steps to eliminate the production and distribution of single-use plastics, some adopting a total ban on the production and use of plastic bags.
Cameroon, Egypt, Eritrea, Ghana, Kenya, Mauritania, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa and Tanzania have taken the lead, others, like Botswana and Ethiopia, are following suit.
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