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21/09/2020

Klima° vor acht: The climate news

It is difficult to not lose focus on the climacrisis by all the news that seem to be more pressing.
An unsalaried Team originates 'KLIMA° vor acht' to spread awareness, knowledge and news about the climatechange in a three to five minutes broadcast which shall be shown in the german Tv Channels every day before eight o'clock. Currently they fundraise untill the end of september and 2021 'KLIMA° vor acht' shall be broadcast every day.



for more information: https://www.startnext.com/klima-vor-acht/unterstuetzer

Es wird Zeit für eine regelmäßige Klima-Berichterstattung im TV. Lasst uns zeigen, wie es geht!

21/09/2020

Ice Bucket Challenge shows its success

Who does not remember the Ice Bucket Challenge 2014?
Celebrities spent 10 dollars to the ALS Association then pour ice buckets over their heads and afterwards nominate others to join. This Challenge was gone all through social media and raising money to find finally a medizin for ALS, a disease of the nervous system. Now the Study CENTAUR has shown success. Soon there shall be a new therapy, which does not heal the disease, but slows it down.

18/09/2020

Lego-Granny builts wheelchair ramps out of lego

Rita often found herself before insurmountable steps. But to surrender was not an option. Nowadays she already built 25 ramps out of lego bricks and gave them for free to stores in different citys. Rita said, she doesn´t want to built on the whole world, her only wish is that this idea spreads around the world and makes it more wheelchair accessible.

And she already succeeds. 250 building instructions were requested in differnt languages and magazines report on her as the Lego Granny.

https://www.hr1.de/programm/lego-oma-baut-rampen-fuer-rollstuhlfahrer,hessens-macher-lego-oma-100.html

17/09/2020

Glacier lost ice bigger then Paris

The largest still existing glacier in the arctic has lost about 110 m² Ice which is bigger than Paris. Breaking off large pieces of Ice is not unusual, but that size is. Sattelite images published by GEUS show the huge floating Icechunks in the sea.



source: https://www.welt.de/vermischtes/article215732770/Groenland-Riesiger-Eisbrocken-vom-groessten-Gletscher-abgebrochen.html

15/09/2020

Axolotl inspires for alternativ pain therapie

Did you know that the Mexican tailed amphibian axolotl can fully restore its limbs, heart, and even brain after an injury? Here, its tissue produces small bioelectric fields.
The multiple patented Axomera Therapy uses precisely this type of bioelectric fields for the first time in medicine for conservative therapy in orthopedics, sports medicine and pain therapy.

14/09/2020

September 25: Global day of climate action

On the 25th of September hold the first global action day of the year.



https://fridaysforfuture.org/september25/

10/09/2020

Discrimination of India´s largest minority

India’s Muslim make up about 15 percent of the population, which is by far the largest minority group.
They have faced decades of discrimination, which experts say has worsened under the Hindu nationalist BJP’s government.

As we already explained in one of our videos:
In December 2019, the Indian parliament passed and Modi signed the Citizenship Amendment Act, which allows for the fast-tracking of citizenship for Hindu, Sikh, Buddhist, Jain, Parsi, and Christian migrants from Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan. Critics say the law is discriminatory because it excludes Muslims and applies a religious criteria for the first time to the question of citizenship. The Modi government argues that the law is designed to provide protection for vulnerable religious minorities who faced persecution in these three Muslim-majority countries.

09/09/2020

Belgium bans to***co advertising completely

By the end of this year Belgium will prohibit all kinds of advertising opportunities for to***co products.

From January 1, 2021, it will no longer be allowed to smoke in cars if minors are within.

08/09/2020

„The enormous fires — often set by ranchers and farmers to clear land, but exacerbated by unusually dry conditions in recent weeks — have engulfed more than 10 percent of the Brazilian wetlands, known as the Pantanal.

“Fighting forest fires is really like war, and every day is a battle,” said Lt. Col. Jean Oliveira, a firefighter in Mato Grosso state.

The fires in the Pantanal raged across an estimated 7,861 square miles between January and August.“ New York Times, 4th Sep. 2020

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/04/world/americas/brazil-wetlands-fires-pantanal.html?smid=tw-share