They found about 250,000 jobs or 33.8 per cent of roles held by Indigenous workers across Canada are concentrated in industries with a high risk of automation.
Indigenous workers in British Columbia, Alberta, Ontario, the Northwest Territories, Nunavut and Prince Edward Island are more at risk from automation than non-Indigenous workers in these provinces, according to the study.
Source: One-third of Indigenous workers in jobs facing automation threat, report says
Lightning strikes killed 147 people in the north Indian state of Bihar over the last 10 days, officials said Sunday, warning of more extreme weather conditions to come, driven by climate change.
Around 215 people — farmers, rural labourers and cattle graziers — have now died from strikes in the country’s poorest state since late March, authorities said.
“I was informed by weather experts, scientists and officials that rising temperatures due to climate change is the main cause behind the increasing lightning strikes,” Bihar’s Disaster Management Minister Lakshmeshwar Rai told AFP.
Twenty-five people died on Saturday, he said.
Source: Climate change ‘fuelling deadly India lightning strikes’ | Macau Business
Mountain top removed coal mine
“What is known is that the change happened suddenly, with virtually no public consultation but plenty of behind-the-scenes lobbying. And it didn’t happen in isolation. It came alongside a rapid-fire series of legislative changes that removed hurdles or industrial development, more broadly, during a particularly desperate economic moment.”
The word “mine” evokes images of soot-smeared workers in underground tunnels, but this is actually a mountain in the process of being deconstructed. A geologic wound. Its slopes are blackened and tiered, abuzz with enormous yellow trucks that look tiny from this distance, kicking up grey plumes of dust as they haul the pulverized mountain away, load by load.
The CBC wrote an article about the Grassy Mountain Coal Project today. Likewise, so did I. If you have an interest in Alberta environmental issues, you can click here to read the CBC article and click here to read mine.
In the last hundred years, the world has seen massive increases in human populations, resulting in massive decreases in natural environments. These two parallel trends are critical parts of the complex chain of events that has triggered a rise in the emergence and spread of new zoonoses.
Zoonotic diseases(also known as zoonoses) are illnesses that are caused by germs that spread between animals and people. Examples of zoonoses include HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Lyme disease, malaria, rabies, West Nile virus, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome(MERS), in addition to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)
Climate change will help more diseases like COVID-19 jump from animals to humans, UN experts say | CBC News: In the last hundred years, the world has seen massive increases in human populations, resulting in massive decreases in natural environments. These two parallel trends are critical parts of the complex chain of events that has triggered a rise in the emergence and spread of new zoonoses.Zoonotic diseases(also known as zoonoses) are illnesses that are caused by germs that spread between animals and people. Examples of zoonoses include HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Lyme disease, malaria, rabies, West Nile virus, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome(MERS), in addition to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)Read More
Zoonotic diseases(also known as zoonoses) are illnesses that are caused by germs that spread between animals and people. Examples of zoonoses include HIV/AIDS, Ebola, Lyme disease, malaria, rabies, West Nile virus, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome(MERS), in addition to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19)