(2020-03-26). How market reforms made the NHS vulnerable to pandemics. mronline.org 
A 2014 report warned that reforms to the NHS would make it vulnerable to pandemics — by making staff redundant, undermining public health and defining spare capacity as waste. It was ignored.
(2020-03-26). Earth Day Live: Global #ClimateStrike Mobilization via Live Stream (Day 2). indybay.org Live stream online…
(2020-03-26). Coronavirus and Climate Change: 6 Ways the Trump Administration Has Botched Responses to Both. globalresearch.ca Here in Washington state, a spokesman for the nursing home that is the epicenter of a coronavirus outbreak
(2020-03-26). Earth Day Live: Global #ClimateStrike Mobilization via Live Stream (Day 1). indybay.org Online live stream…
(2020-03-26). Earth Day Live: Global #ClimateStrike Mobilization via Live Stream (Day 3). indybay.org Live stream online…
(2020-03-25). Wildflowers moving north as climate changes, citizen survey shows. thecanary.co 
Wildflowers are moving northwards as temperatures rise, prompting calls to manage landscapes to make space for plants in the face of climate change.Results from the first five years of the government-funded National Plant Monitoring Scheme, using data from 15,000 surveys by volunteer citizen scientists, already shows the impact of a warming world on the UK's plants.The data reveals that plants such as wild orchids are expanding their range northwards, experts said.The National Plant Monitoring Scheme looks at 30 different habitats, from woodland and hedgerows to blanket bogs and streams, with around 30 wild flowe…
(2020-03-25). The Media's Covid-19 Coverage Proves It Could Also Spotlight the Climate Crisis. thenation.com The Media's Covid-19 Coverage Proves It Could Also Spotlight the Climate Crisis…
(2020-03-25). The Coronavirus and the Urgent Need to Redefine National Security. counterpunch.org For far too long, the United States has been wastefully spending its precious budgetary resources on a nineteenth-century military strategy and a strategic arms policy that has brought no advantages to the American people. For the past three decades, our national security policies have been ineffectual and irrelevant to the genuine threats we face today. These threats do not emanate from Russia or China. Rather, they stem from an underfunded and highly vulnerable public health system, a cyber world that is out of control, and a crumbling infrastructure. In 2017, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave a grad…
(2020-03-25). 'Huge Victory' for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe as Federal Court Rules DAPL Permits Violated Law. commondreams.org A federal judge handed down a major victory for the Standing Rock Sioux tribe of North Dakota on Wednesday, ruling that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers violated the National Environmental Policy Act by approving federal permits for the Dakota Access Pipeline. | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/headline/thumbs/oceti-sakowin-camp_1.jpg …
(2020-03-24). Observing Elites Manipulate Our Fear: COVID-19, Propaganda and Knowledge. globalresearch.ca While humans stand on the brink of precipitating our own extinction, with the prospects of now averting this remote — see
(2020-03-23). 'Count every drop, every drop counts': UN weather agency calls for better water data on World Meteorological Day. news.un.org Floods, extreme rainfall, droughts and melting glaciers…many of the major signs of climate change involve water. On this year's World Meteorological Day, the UN weather agency (WMO) is reinforcing the message of World Water Day, by focusing on the links between climate and water, and calling for better water-related data.
(2020-03-22). World Water Day: Often overlooked, water resources are essential part of solution to climate change. news.un.org On World Water Day, the United Nations launched a flagship report which says that reducing both the impacts and drivers of climate change will require major shifts in the way we use and reuse the Earth's limited water resources.
(2020-03-21). [Comment] No time to waste: preventing tuberculosis in children. thelancet.com Tuberculosis takes the life of one in five children developing the disease.1 Data from the pre-chemotherapy era suggest very young children are at highest risk for tuberculosis after exposure, and highly susceptible to the most severe forms of the disease.2,3 As a result, tuberculosis control efforts among children in high-burden countries are focused on those below 5 years of age.2 One of the most important efforts is provision of tuberculosis preventive therapy after tuberculosis exposure, yet only one in four children below 5 years of age who might benefit from life-saving preventive therapy will receive it.
(2020-03-02). Could the climate crisis be "The Good News of Damnation"? zcomm.org There really is no other solution to the onrushing climate catastrophe than for people and nations to forget their tribal animosities and start behaving as part of a world society…
(2020-02-21). Paul Paz y Miño, Saqib Bhatti & Beverly Bell on Environmental Justice & Cross-National Solidarity. fair.org 
There will only be an increasing number of frontline struggles between extractive, climate-disrupting industry and those willing to stand up to it. Corporate media's inadequate attention, and unwillingness to truly call out the moneyed interests causing present and future harms, make them more often part of the problem than the solution.
(2020-02-06). [Commentary] Extreme population exposure: Hurricane Dorian medical response in Great Abaco, Bahamas. thelancet.com Hurricane Dorian's ensemble of extreme winds, wave action, and pelting rains laid waste to exquisitely vulnerable human settlements throughout the Abaco islands in northwest Bahamas. Dorian, the strongest hurricane ever to impact the Bahamas, pulled a towering storm surge onshore. Combined with 20 inches of rain, vast expanses of Abaco islands were submerged. The system's forward movement slowed to near standstill, creating one of the longest-duration population exposures to a hurricane in history [1].
(2019-11-07). Take Action — Some actual, SANE legislation. peaceaction.org Trump has plans to spend nearly $2 TRILLION over the next 30 years on unneeded and unnecessary nuclear weapons and delivery systems. This makes no sense. This is insane. That's nearly $100 million wasted every day for thirty years on weapons we are supposed to be getting rid of. To put that amount in perspective, …