Ohio State University Leads Effort to Improve Water Security With The Navajo Nation
Researchers at The Ohio State University will help the Navajo Nation mitigate the lack of water and food security.
An effort led by researchers at The Ohio State University will help the Navajo Nation mitigate the lack of water and food security, according to Ohio State News.
Navajo communities are facing new challenges due to COVID-19, including securing ample clean drinking water and proper sanitation. More than 40% of Navajo Nation households in Utah lack running water or adequate sanitation, reported Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez’s office.
A relatively small cohort of companies generates more than half the annual revenues in the ocean economy, according to new data.
Dubbed the “Ocean 100,” these transnational companies collectively earned $1.1 trillion in revenues in 2018, according to the report in
That sum represents about 60% of total revenues from ocean-based economic activity in 2018, the most recent data available. If the group were a country, its gross domestic product would roughly equal that of Mexico, the researchers note.
The report offers new implications for the sustainability of the world’s oceans and the industries that depend on them.
“Oceans will be increasingly central to the global economy in the 21st century,” says coauthor Dan Vermeer, executive director of the Center for Energy, Development and the Global Environment (EDGE) at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business.
With Democratic control of the Presidency and Congress, water programs could receive more attention. By Brett Walton, Circle of Blue President Joe Biden has made his priorities clear: subduing the pandemic, economic recovery, climate action, and racial equity. He reiterated those national challenges once again on Wednesday following his swearing-in ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. […]
QAnon Doesn’t Make Sense, but its Popularity Does Details
CONSPIRACY THEORIES-The Eye of Providence on the back of the $1 bill has become symbolic of secret societies and conspiracy theories more generally.
The recent increase in media references to QAnon over the past couple of months probably has many Americans wondering the same thing: how could anyone possibly believe this nonsense? After all, this complex and ever-evolving conspiracy theory “hangs on a core belief that the world’s levers of power are wielded by prominent liberals and celebrities who are literally pedophiles and cannibals and who kill and eat children, and that Trump has been anointed as a savior who will render justice and liberate the innocent,” as Salon’s Roger Sollenberger wrote recently.
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A team of researchers, using satellite data and other analytical tools, has identified companies fishing in high seas waters that lie outside of national jurisdiction where fishing has raised fears about environmental and labor violations. The study, which appears in the journal
One Earth, is the first to link companies to fishing activity in these largely unregulated areas. There is a lot of concern about companies that operate on the high seas, simply because there they are beyond the reach of any nation s laws and regulations, says Jennifer Jacquet, an associate professor in NYU s Department of Environmental Studies and lead author of the peer-reviewed study. By connecting those boats with specific companies, this study takes a first step in enhancing transparency we now know a lot more about who is profiting from fish catches in the global commons.