There& #39;s been a lot going on in the world apart from the #Covid_19 pandemic, and some of it - while important and even related - may not be getting sufficient attention. #WhileYouWereQuarantined
Ethiopia (and parts of Kenya, Somalia, and Uganda) confront a food crisis after a dramatic increase in swarms of locusts. #WhileYouWereQuarantined http://www.fao.org/ag/locusts/en/info/info/index.html">https://www.fao.org/ag/locust...
A new study suggests that China& #39;s damming and management of the Upper Mekong after 2012 - for electricity production - caused severe water shortages in 2019 in the Lower Mekong (Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam). #WhileYouWereQuarantined …https://558353b6-da87-4596-a181-b1f20782dd18.filesusr.com/ugd/bae95b_0e0f87104dc8482b99ec91601d853122.pdf?index=true">https://558353b6-da87-4596-a181-b1f20782dd18.filesusr.com/ugd/bae95...
A scientific experiment in Japan finds 1 of the 3 conditions (among neutrinos) proposed by physicist Andrew Sakharov in 1967 that were necessary for the surplus of matter (and thus the creation of the universe in the Big Bang). #WhileYouWereQuarantined https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2177-0.epdf?referrer_access_token=_XfSftwCUeEkm_hB1IV1nNRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0NlKSjC2byHy8LafvM2vgNWDA2O13J8_Yy4v53S3lEa2m0JsEipZUrdfIgRo8HJOrvXL5Un3gjsXCiGQTfsz56LRTN4N43Mbrd_g17dvZApzVR2qd13NXVkd9YWoK53fQqX9t_E51mKJD-3vIIPzgGeYmwxfV1BDlhcXRa_QiRtm53olEJ4_0pvNZf7IC_RUvU%3D&tracking_referrer=www.bbc.com">https://www.nature.com/articles/...
Canada suffers its worst mass killing since 1873, with at least 19 confirmed deaths in rural Nova Scotia, including the suspect. #WhileYouWereQuarantined https://twitter.com/sarahritchietv/status/1252282264643403776?s=21">https://twitter.com/sarahritc... https://twitter.com/SarahRitchieTV/status/1252282264643403776">https://twitter.com/SarahRitc...
The Japanese "government will demand that, in principle, all independent administrative agencies and designated corporations that handle the people’s private data not use Chinese telecommunications equipment." https://the-japan-news.com/news/article/0006573729">https://the-japan-news.com/news/arti...
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