There is well-founded concern over what will happen as COVID-19 spreads in war zones and refugee camps, where people who are already suffering from poor health and nutrition and from weakened immunity live cramped together with minimal facilities, writes Sarah Glynn.
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Climate campaigners are urging world leaders to learn from those governments who are handling the coronavirus pandemic, arguing there should be no return to business as usual, writes Jessica Corbett.
Climate protesters organised a snap action inside a lavish foyer of Barangaroo where Marsh Insurance Brokers have its Sydney office聽early on March 5, reports Coral Wynter.
The International Monetary Fund has rejected聽Venezuela's聽appeal for an emergency US$5 billion loan to face the coronavirus health crisis, reports Ricardo Vaz.
It is amazing what can be achieved by a potentially uncontrollable pandemic that doesn鈥檛 discriminate between rich and poor, doesn鈥檛 respect national boundaries and will destroy a global economy quicker than I鈥檒l destroy a bottle of gin if forced to stay at home without sport to watch for more than a day, writes Carlo Sands.听
Bob McIlroy is a small farmer in the Bonang region of East Gippsland, Victoria, with 30 years' experience with the local Victorian Country Fire Authority (CFA). He spoke to 91自拍论坛 about the experience of the giant bushfires and what needs to be done.
Cuban cartoonists confront COVID-19 with humour and a nasobuco (facemask).
Cuban medicine could treat thousands of coronavirus patients as production of a 鈥渇lagship鈥 drug known to combat the disease is set to increase significantly, writes Steve Sweeney.
Two Italian volunteers used a 3D printer to manufacture a desperately-needed ventilator component for patients stricken by the COVID-19 virus, writes Kerry Smith. The printed valves saved more than 10 lives in a hospital in the northern Italian city of Brescia.
The COVID-19 pandemic is already having an impact on the Democratic Party primaries in the United States. The Ohio primary was cancelled on March 17, and others will be cancelled in the coming weeks. When, or if, they will be held is not known.听Barry Sheppard writes on where the primaries stood as of March 17.
While 'social distancing' measures are important, what we need more than ever to get through this crisis is 鈥渟ocial solidarity鈥, write Pip Hinman and Susan Price.
Livestock have been scapegoated for all agricultural greenhouse emissions. But, properly managed, their contribution is negligible for methane, and they can be key to tackling the climate crisis, write Elena Garcia and Alan Broughton.
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