Amidst Rising Heat Waves, UN says Cooling is a Human Right, not a Luxury

The rising heat waves in the world’s middle income and poorer nations are threatening the health and prosperity of about 1.1 billion people, including 470 million in rural areas without access to safe food and medicines, and 630 million in hotter, poor urban slums, with little or no cooling to protect them.

At least nine countries, with large populations, face “significant cooling risks”, including India, Bangladesh, Brazil, Pakistan, Nigeria, Indonesia, China, Mozambique and Sudan.

Amidst Rising Heat Waves, UN says Cooling is a Human Right, not a Luxury IPS

Venezuela’s Maduro shows his strength

Maduro shows his strength, looks death in the face Granma

“In politics, sometimes body language says more than any speech. And in this sense, President Maduro will go down in history precisely for his conduct during a defining moment. At the moment of the explosion, he looked unmoved, calm, even ready to continue his speech.”

The determination to win is more powerful than weapons Granma

Much has been gained

Court orders EPA to ban chlorpyrifos pesticide

“In a rebuke to the Trump administration, an appeals court Thursday ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to ban a widely used farm pesticide that environmentalists say can damage the nervous systems of farmworkers, their children and even consumers.”

Court bans popular farm pesticide defended by Trump. What it means for farms, workers, kids Sacramento Bee