By 2025, CO2 Will Be Highest In 3.3 Million Years | University of Southampton

The composition of fossilised zooplankton shells has enabled the reconstruction of past pH and CO2. Credit: University of Southampton July 10, 2020 (Phys.org) -- By 2025, atmospheric carbon dioxide ( ...

Examining and Comparing the U.S. response to AIDS and Covid-19 | Mickey Z.

July 2, 1986 - A protest at the Federal Building in Los Angeles. (Photo credit: Los Angeles Public Library) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust July 9, 2020 “What we have seen exposed as a result of this p ...

Laura D: The Fall and Rise of a Homeless Artist | Mickey Z.

Laura D teaching watercolors at a homeless shelter (Courtesy of Laura D) Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 30, 2020 “The only place I felt I did anything right was art class.” Those are the words of ...

The epidemic that killed 8% of NYC’s population | Mickey Z.

Image source: Wikimedia Commons Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 20, 2020 Yellow Fever hit New York City hard in the late 18th century. The Big Apple population at the time was 60,000 and over the ...

Mask-less in Astoria: Covid Complacency from Coast-to-Coast | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 16, 2020 (Please click on all the hyperlinks for added context… and motivation.) I’ve been confined to my neighborhood of Astoria for a litt ...

Everybody Knows What Titanic Lifeboats Can Teach Us About The Coronavirus Response | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 14, 2020 Everybody knows that the dice are loaded Everybody rolls with their fingers crossed Everybody knows the war is over Everybody knows ...

Face Masks Critical To Prevent COVID-19 Spread | Texas A&M University

Credit: CC0 Public Domain June 12, 2020 (Phys.org) -- A new study shows that wearing a face mask dramatically decreases a person's chances of being infected by the COVID-19 virus. Renyi Zhang, Texas ...

COVID-19 Info Links From The National Institutes Of Health

U.S. National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health COVID-19 is an emerging, rapidly evolving situation Get the latest public health information from the Centers for Disease Control: http ...

Amidst the racial strife, we’re ignoring a pandemic (no, not THAT pandemic) | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 8, 2020 What if I were to tell you about a virtually ignored state of emergency, a lethal pandemic of which the exact numbers will never be ...

When Profits and Politics Drive Science: The Hazards of Rushing a Vaccine at 'Warp Speed' | Ellen Brown

Image source: stat.comJune 4, 2020 (Web of Debt) -- More than 100 companies are competing to be first in the race to get a COVID-19 vaccine to market. It’s a race against time, not because the death ...

Welcome to a Pandemic of Collective Grief | Mickey Z.

Photo credit: Mickey Z. Mickey Z. -- World News Trust June 7, 2020 “I could not count the times during the average day when something would come up that I needed to tell him. This impulse did not end ...