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https://www.europesays.com/ie/676727/ Ebola burial teams endure exhaustion, hostility from communities #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo #EbolaOutbreak #Éire #Health #IE #Ireland #Vaccines #WorldHealthOrganization(WHO)

Health officials turn to mobile-phone data to track Ebola spread in Congo

Dakar, SenegalReuters Health officials battling the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are using anonymised mobile-phone…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #AU #Australia #Bundibugyostrain #DemocraticRepublicofCongo #DRC #Ebola #mobilephonedata #OlivierLePolain #Vodacom #who #WorldHealthOrganization
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/881580/

Health officials turn to mobile-phone data to track Ebola spread in Congo

Dakar, SenegalReuters Health officials battling the Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo are using anonymised mobile-phone…
#NewsBeep #News #Health #AU #Australia #Bundibugyostrain #DemocraticRepublicofCongo #DRC #Ebola #mobilephonedata #OlivierLePolain #Vodacom #who #WorldHealthOrganization
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/881580/

https://www.europesays.com/africa/356384/ Cabinet Welcomes AfDB’s $13 Million Ebola Response for Central Africa #afdb #AfricaCDC #AfricanDevelopmentBank #AfricanUnion #CyrilRamaphosa #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo #ebola #EmergencyFunding #KhumbudzoNtshavheni #PandemicPreparedness #PublicHealth #SouthAfrica #SouthSudan #Uganda #WorldHealthOrganization

#SodiumIonBatteries offer an alternative to tricky #lithium

Oct 26th 2023

Excerpt: "Fortunately, lithium is not the only game in town. As we report this week, a clutch of firms are making batteries based on sodium, lithium’s elemental cousin. Since sodium’s chemical properties are very similar to those of lithium, it too makes for good batteries. And sodium, which is found in the salt in #seawater, is thousands of times more abundant on Earth than lithium and cheaper to get at. Most of the companies using sodium to make batteries today are also Chinese. But pursuing the technology in the West might be a surer route to energy security than relying heavily on lithium.

"Besides its abundance, sodium has other advantages. The best lithium batteries use #cobalt and #nickel in their electrodes. Nickel, like lithium, is in short supply. #Mining it on land is #EnvironmentallyDestructive. Proposals to grab it from the #seabed instead have caused rows. A good deal of the world’s cobalt, meanwhile, is extracted from small mines in the #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo, where #ChildLabour is common and working conditions are dire. Sodium batteries, by contrast, can use #electrodes built from #iron and #manganese [and wood #lignin], which are plentiful and uncontroversial. Since the chemical components are cheap, a scaled-up industry should be able to produce batteries that cost less than their lithium counterparts.

"Sodium is not a perfect replacement for lithium. It is heavier, meaning sodium batteries will weigh more than lithium ones of an equivalent capacity. That is likely to rule them out in some cases where lightness is paramount. But for other applications, such as #GridStorage or #HomeBatteries, weight is irrelevant. Several Chinese carmakers are even beginning to put sodium batteries in #ElectricVehicles."

Read more:
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2023/10/26/sodium-batteries-offer-an-alternative-to-tricky-lithium

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/7x6JX

#SolarPunkSunday #EnergyStorage #SodiumIon #NewTechnology #GiantLeap #Reuse #WasteReuse #NoLithiumMining #NoMining

Why is violence against #EnvironmentalDefenders getting worse? Five things to know

Maxwell Radwin
11 Sep 2024

"In January 2023, two men mysteriously disappear after speaking out against pollution from a controversial iron ore mine in Michoacán, Mexico.

"The following March, climate change protesters in Austria and Germany are beaten and pepper sprayed, and some have their homes raided by law enforcement.

"In September, a pair of youth environmental advocates are abducted by armed men and interrogated for days about their work fighting construction of a new airport in the Philippines.

"All across the world, environmental defenders continue to experience censorship, threats, physical attacks, kidnappings, disappearances and even death because of their work fighting climate change, deforestation, pollution and other environmental issues.

"Since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015, more than 1,500 environmental defenders have been killed for their work, according to Global Witness, a human rights and environmental NGO. The figures for 2023 look like more of the same. At least 196 people were killed last year defending the environment, up from 177 in 2022. And those figures are considered a low-end estimate."

Read more:
https://news.mongabay.com/2024/09/why-is-violence-against-environmental-defenders-getting-worse-five-things-to-know/

#EnvironmentalActivists #WaterDefenders #EnvironmentalJustice #GlobalWitness #Mongabay #ReaderSupportedNews
#IACHR #ExtractiveIndustries
#Mining #Logging #LandDefenders #WaterIsLife #HumanRights
#Capitalism #Greed #Corruption
#CorporateColonialism #LatinAmerica #Phillipines #India #Indonesia #Honduras #DemocraticRepublicOfCongo #PublicOrderAct #SilencingDissent #HR9495 #CriminalizingDissent