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In Mexico City, COVID-19 has spread in line with existing patterns of spatial segregation and inequalities. While the poorest neighbourhoods have been the hardest hit, many of the wealthiest have seen very few cases, writes
Máximo Ernesto Jaramillo Molina (INDESIG and Atlantic Fellows for Social and Economic Equity).
In January, Reuters reported that Mexico had surpassed India in confirmed deaths from COVID-19, giving it the world’s third-highest death toll. In Mexico City, the continent’s second-largest urban centre, the COVID-19 pandemic has led to over 521,000 infections, 124,000 hospitalisations, and 32,000 deaths, according to data from SEDESA (the Ministry of Health of Mexico City) up to 14 February.
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Mountains, Ice and Climate Change: A Recipe for Disasters
Shrinking and thinning of glaciers is one of the most documented signs of global warming caused by rising levels of greenhouse gases.
Rescue workers looked for survivors after flash flooding swept away a hydropower dam in Uttarakhand State, India.Credit.Reuters
Feb. 8, 2021
The flash flood that killed dozens of people and left hundreds missing in the Himalayas of India on Sunday was far from the first such disaster to occur among the world’s high-mountain glaciers. In a world with a changing climate, it won’t be the last.
Shrinking and thinning of glaciers is one of the most documented signs of the effects of global warming caused by emissions of greenhouse gases, scientists say. Glacial retreat in mountains around the world has been measured, sometimes at a rate of 100 feet or more each year. In the Himalayas, the most glaciated mountain range and home to about 600 billion tons of ice, the rate of retreat has acceler