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Based on the best scientific data available, the unprecedented Amazon Water Impact Index draws together monitoring and research data to identify the most vulnerable areas of the Brazilian rainforest. According to the index, 20% of the 11,216 Brazilian Amazon microbasins have an impact considered high, very high or extreme; half of these watersheds are affected by hydroelectric plants.
An Indigenous man receives the AstraZeneca/Oxford COVID-19 vaccine from a municipal health worker in the Sustainable Development Reserve of Tupe in Manaus, Brazil, Feb. 9. (CNS/Reuters/Bruno Kelly)
As U.S. President Joe Biden prepares to name his new ambassador to the Holy See, policy experts have encouraged the next Vatican ambassador to work closely with the Vatican s Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development.
San Diego s Bishop Robert McElroy, who was recently appointed by Pope Francis as one of five American board members to that Vatican office, says he absolutely agrees with that advice and believes one initial and significant area of potential collaboration would be vaccine distribution.