Month: June 2021
Intense restoration of nature needed to address climate, biodiversity and food insecurity crises: UN
Facing the triple threat of climate change, loss of nature and pollution, the world must deliver on its commitment to restore at least one billion degraded hectares of land in the next decade—an area about the size of China. Countries also need to add similar commitments for oceans, according to a new report by the UN Environment Program (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO), launched […]
WHO asks for re-checks of Italian research on possible new Covid-19 virus origin
Antibodies to Covid-19 detected in blood collected in Italy in October 2019 during a lung cancer screening trial Samples from a study suggesting that COVID-19 was circulating outside China by October 2019 have been re-tested at the World Health Organization’s request, a Reuters report quoted two scientists leading the research as saying on Tuesday. While COVID-19 was first identified in the central Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019, a […]
Biden’s China obsession could be the undoing of America
Collaboration with China has been good for the US and its people in the past, and should be again It’s hard to tell if US President Joe Biden’s position on China is his true conviction or he’s just going along with the heavy anti-China sentiment in Washington, but his China team has made it official now: no more engagement with China, just competition from here on. The nature of competition the […]
Global climate change efforts offer hope for shared future of humanity
Global cooperation on climate change requires a commitment to multilateralism, international law, and the United Nations-led global system. When facing global challenges like the COVID-19 pandemic, some nations have resorted to finger-pointing and blame to hide their own weaknesses or try to gain petty short-term political advantages – at the cost of hundreds of thousands or even millions of lives. But at this moment, the dangers facing humanity are too […]
Study finds COVID-19 spread in China fueled by “stealth transmission”
Undetected cases, many of which were likely not severely symptomatic, were largely responsible for the rapid spread of the COVID-19 outbreak in China, according to a study by Sino-American scientists. published last year. The study, published last year, found that even patients with mild-to-no symptoms could spread the virus. In the light of the latest American “Wuhan Lab” conspiracy disinformation, it is worth re-reading. “The researchers used multiple sources to infer […]